Kopp Disclosure
(John 3:19-21)
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I was visiting a
church member in a rehab center on the Monday following the Sunday after
Easter.
She said, "I
was told you weren't in church on Sunday."
Whoa.
She wasn't even
in church because she was in the rehab center!
How could she
have known?
:)
She went on,
"Are you looking for another church?"
Geez.
I miss one Sunday
and...
I said, "Nooooooo, though I know
there's a minority who hate me in
a Christian kinda way who'd like to become the majority and
run me outta town!"
Really,
especially on the part of those who have left over the past decade or so since
I ruined their little religious club to team up with the remnant who wanna be
an invitational and welcoming and inclusive and agapish family of faith that breaks down
socioeconomic barriers to honor Jesus by the book, that was wishful thinking.
Of course,
Belvidere and Boone County have been stung a lot lately by a few
real-unlike-me "leaders" who keep saying they love us while
getting constantly caught looking for the greener pastures that were the brown
fields of other interlopers.
Truth is I was
called here long before the 10+ years that I've been here and expect to be
around for another 15-20 years unless that minority who hate me in a Christian kinda way become
the majority or I'm assassinated by that little old religious club or I'm
knocked off by some Islamofascistnutball or...
In short, anyone
suggesting I'm thinking or musing or whatever about skipping outta town is
lying.
It would take one
of those burning bush things to...
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Here's another
lie.
There's a rumor
that I'm running for moderator of GA in 2016.
For people not
living in the PCUSA ghetto, that's the highest elected office in the
franchise.
Psst.
Actually, it's
just a figurehead controlled/manipulated/managed/compromised by a
non-elected-self-perpetuating-accountable-to-nobody denominational bureaucracy.
Well, it could be
a "bully pulpit" for somebody with enough Joshua-like courage to be
for Jesus by the book; but...(go back to the preceding sentence-paragraph).
Aside from 2016
being the novelty/celebrity year for electing women to high office regardless
of call or credentials as if
that's not already become the gender-inclusive reality of America's civil and
ecclesiastical cultures, I'm not qualified for the office no way
and no how and nobody in her/his right mind would ever...
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While people who
hate me in a Christian
kinda way will have a much longer list, here's why I'm
not qualified:
1. Though I have
sinned, sin, and will sin, I love Jesus by the book.
2. Though I have
sinned, sin, and will sin, I am guided by our Book of Confessions.
3. Though I have
sinned, sin, and will sin, I believe the PCUSA should get back to over 2K+
years of Biblical, confessional, constitutional, historical, traditional, and
common sense Christianity: "This is not another Gospel; but the same
ancient Gospel rediscovered for today" (Kung).
4. Though I have
dumped my garbage over and over and over in my non-best-selling books and on
this site or whenever I'm asked, I know folks who hate me in a Christian kinda way will
recycle it.
5. Yeah, I am a
loose cannon. I say what I mean and mean what I say. I've started
following the advice that I give to young pastors: "You're damned if you
do and damned if you don't; which
is quite liberating! That means you can tell the truth as you
understand it while always being open to correction compelling confession and
repentance." Really, I know I have been wrong about lots of stuff
and continue to be wrong about lots of stuff and will be wrong about lots of
stuff; and if you can show me by Jesus, the Bible, and common sense that I'm
wrong about anything when I think I'm right, I will confess and repent publicly.
6. I don't show
favoritism to anybody because of whatever reasons that I'm supposed to show
favoritism to 'em; which, along with my sins, is why I was doomed from the
start in those two really big and important churches when I was young and
famous.
7. I have no need
to win because I know He does in the end; so I'm more about agape concomitant
to sowing, salting, shining, and being, by His grace despite my sins, the
good leaven mixing in to make better.
8. I don't have
enough money.
9. The church
that I'm called to undershepherd
gets jealous when I preach anywhere else and doesn't like me to take days off
or go on vacation (go back to the first section of this KD).
10. Ever since
spending that week with Eugene and my covenant brothers in October 2011, I've
been wondering how the anything but heaven I/we've missed what Jesus was
talking about in Matthew 15 and 23. I don't like clergy. Clergy
conspired with other politicians to murder Jesus; and they still seem
determined to carry on that tradition.
O.K., I like some clergy
(viz., the remnant). BTW, I'm still praying and laboring to repent from
years of being one of 'em who keeps murdering...
11. I'd probably
be tempted to tone down the truth because of perks afforded to me like when I
was a young and famous high steepler. I don't think so. I hope
not. I pray not. I just don't wanna be tempted anymore.
12. I'm just scratching the surface of
my relationship with Jesus and I'm not even adequate as the undershepherd of a smaller
flock. Aside from those who like to remind me of that, especially the
latter, how the anything but heaven could I ever...or why the anything but
heaven would I ever...?
13. Ain't seen no
burning bush.
14. Don't wanna
see no burning bush.
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So help me to get
the word out in a Dylanesque kinda way.
It ain't
me they're lookin' for, babe(s).
No!
No! No!
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Blessings and Love!
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6 comments:
Pope?
But you haven’t disclosed yet if you’re running for president in 2016... I’d be proud to put a bumper sticker for KOPP on my car.
But Bob in today's climate you could be a woman simply by saying that you are. Think of all of those awful people you could scorn for pointing out that you have a beard ;-) They just aren't simply gender identity sensitive and to boot you could be the first lamb dressed in wolf's skins to enter the flock. You would make a great moderator herding the sheep and wolves.
Too bad you would make a good one, Moderator that is.
Go ahead and run for moderator.
After all, you only work one hour a week. You have time !! LOL !!
I got a call last night from Missouri. After telling me how much he's still angry with me about my premature departure from KC for WSNC, he asked, "Even though you say you won't run, how would you weed out the problems in Louisville if you were elected?"
I replied, "It would be simple. All you have to do to smoke out the apostates, syncretists, and other miscreants is ask them to talk about Jesus. They will speak for themselves."
It reminded me of a recent presentation at our presbytery from a GA bureaucrat. While I think she thinks we assume her Chrisotolgy and continuing affirmation of ordination vows, she spoke about a program for assessing a congregation's present and future without mentioning Jesus once in over an hour or so; and several presbyters did not miss the omission.
One presbyter even wrote to me and others that she did, however, take God's name in vain at least seven times.
I don't know; cause I had kinda tuned out at that point - once I realized it was a sales pitch with the caveat that mainliners like the PCUSA aren't really losing more members than...
Yeah, right.
:)
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