http://raynoah.com/2008/11/01/weekend-bonus-sermon-sampling/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:32:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://raynoah.com/2008/11/01/weekend-bonus-sermon-sampling/comment-page-1/#comment-117 Bob.Smiley Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:25:57 +0000 http://raynoah.com/?p=1112#comment-117 Thanks, but I'd rather be in the spiritual Peanut Gallery. It's a lofty position, usually poised up in the balcony where I can look down on pastor and congregation all at the same time. Up in my loft I get to scrutinize everything you say through my lens of book-learning and theoretical conjecture. It's must less work than actually trying to humble myself to grow from something I heard in church. And it's more rewarding to be able to tell my friends "I already knew everything the pastor spoke about today" than to eat humble pie and say "you know, he may have been on to something!" It also gives me implicit justification for missing a few Sundays if I've gone for a few weeks without "learning" anything. But if I try to actually apply something you say to my every-day eating-and-sleeping life, I might find it's not as easy as it seems when sitting in the peanut gallery, and then I'd feel like I'm not worthy to enter Heaven's gates, and that would be like hell. I know; I tried it once years ago (different pastor, mind you). Once was enough, believe me! Thanks, but I’d rather be in the spiritual Peanut Gallery. It’s a lofty position, usually poised up in the balcony where I can look down on pastor and congregation all at the same time. Up in my loft I get to scrutinize everything you say through my lens of book-learning and theoretical conjecture. It’s must less work than actually trying to humble myself to grow from something I heard in church. And it’s more rewarding to be able to tell my friends “I already knew everything the pastor spoke about today” than to eat humble pie and say “you know, he may have been on to something!” It also gives me implicit justification for missing a few Sundays if I’ve gone for a few weeks without “learning” anything. But if I try to actually apply something you say to my every-day eating-and-sleeping life, I might find it’s not as easy as it seems when sitting in the peanut gallery, and then I’d feel like I’m not worthy to enter Heaven’s gates, and that would be like hell. I know; I tried it once years ago (different pastor, mind you). Once was enough, believe me!

]]> http://raynoah.com/2008/11/01/weekend-bonus-sermon-sampling/comment-page-1/#comment-115 mbedford Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:29:39 +0000 http://raynoah.com/?p=1112#comment-115 Weekend Bonus? Alright, I love bonuses! Weekend Bonus? Alright, I love bonuses!

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