Kopp Disclosure
(John 3:19-21)
@#$%
Here's a warning.
Live your life in
such a manner that your pastor won't have to lie at your funeral or lead the
handful attending in, "Ding! Dong! The...is dead!"
Did you hear
about the obituary in Texas back in February written by a daughter about her
daddy?
The obit was so
popular that it crashed the funeral home's website.
It goes,
"_____ passed away on January 30, 2017 which was 29 years longer than
expected and much longer
than he deserved."
Later, the
daughter explained, "I told the truth...For someone that knew him and
family members that knew him, and to see something on there was a complete lie,
would've been an insult to everyone that he did bad things to and there were a
lot of them."
Sic.
I wonder if
that'll start a trend at our local favorite funeral home.
Probably not.
People prefer
fake news.
Just ask Colonel
Jessup and...
Anyway, in a
people-are-strange-Jim-Morrison kinda way, that obit made me think about an
American funeral.
Acknowledging
America has always been divided and only God's grace has allowed us to hang
around longer than expected and
much longer than we've deserved, we seem more divided than ever before.
Half the country
idolizes Trump and half the country still thinks Obama is God's other son.
Many
prognosticators contend America has passed the tipping point.
Hello, Rome!
For example, Dan Pope,
one of my favorite pastors in town at Open Bible Church where I recommend
folks emigrate who hate me for Christ's sake, gave Barna Trends 2017 to me at
Starbucks on February 15 which isn't important except to say we're trying to
leavenate that joint as much as possible because Jesus said to take the gospel
into the world and Starbucks is about as worldly as you can get these days.
The Barna Group
provides current and accurate information, in bite-sized pieces, to facilitate
effective decision-making. Barna
Trends is an annual guide to the latest cultural, religious, and
political trends that help us to understand what the heaven isn't going on.
Parenthetically,
for those who think it leans one way over the other in reporting "the
facts, ma'am, just the facts," its research stats, commentaries, and
conclusions are often quoted across the ideological spectrum by major
media outlets like CNN, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Fox, Chicago
Tribune, Huffington Post, NY Times, LA Times, and the BDR that seems to have
stopped publishing my stuff now that it's changed editors again.
Among the most
disturbing trends in this latest volume is 72% of Americans - cutting across
race, faith, left, right, up, down, rich, poor lines - think America is going
to anywhere but heaven.
Founder Barna
himself concludes, "Voters are perhaps as upset with themselves as they
are with the system...They know something substantial must be done, but either
they don't know what that prescription is or they don't have the courage to
pursue it...Many resonate with the sense that America has lost its mojo."
Ya think?
While I may be
wrong, I think the church and politicians are mostly to blame.
Democrats and
Republicans care more about their respective partying than America's health and welfare.
America's church
betrays institutional loyalty to its pathetically peculiar denominations over
Biblically Christocentric ecumenism.
Neither blush
when they say, in effect, "Come,
let us show ya'll how we can't get together for anyone's sake...not to
mention God's."
Though it's not
PC and rather crude, I've reached a simple conclusion.
America is
stupid.
America's churches
are stupid.
Gump is right:
"Stupid is as stupid does."
Kurt Vonnegut in Palm Sunday comes to mind:
"An Indianapolis cousin of mine, who was also a high school classmate, did
very badly at the University of Michigan while I did badly at Cornell.
His father asked him what the trouble was, and he made what I consider an
admirable reply: 'Don't you know, Father? I'm dumb.' It was the
truth."
America and her churches,
politicians, educators, pastors, pewsitters, merchants, entertainers,
media types, lawyers, judges and all of the below look so stupid because
they have turned their backs on the only One who can save us.
Jesus.
We've heard it
before and we must hear it again because it's the only truth that can deliver
us from all of the fake news being barfed up by today's Democrats, Republicans,
denominations, so many incredulously secularized pastors and other politicians:
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has
been found difficult and left untried" (G.K. Chesterton).
Samuel records
the truth: "God blesses those who bless Him."
The answer is so
simply straightforward.
Only really,
really, really stupid people can't see...Him.
@#$%
Blessings and Love!
@#$%
Salt! Shine! Leavenate!
Look up! Stand up! Speak up! Act up for Jesus!
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3 comments:
Is that why we say on markers, "Here lies...(John Doe)? I have ideas about how funerals should be conducted that have made the local funeral director so mad. that he avoids me and rarely comes to my funeral services. Also, in Jesus day, mourners were hired to come and cry. We don't do that today. Instead we pay funeral directors and pastors to cry for us
Bob,
This is the answer, always has been, always will be...Jesus! Jeremiah 2:13..."For my people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, The Fountain of Living Waters, To hew for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water."
I pray that the Holy Spirit will woo and guide the Church(es) back to the Source of Light and Truth...and our salvation!
Love you!
When my father died six years ago and - going to read his will with his long-time pro bono attorney - found out that he had chosen another attorney to represent his estate AND excluded any of us kids from getting any thing. -
And learning that he and my (recently deceased) step-mother had ceded any monies they had to the local Humane Society
And learning not long afterward that the Director of said Society had embezzled thousands - including, I presume, a portion of my father's estate...
Anyway, I planned and led a memorial service for him (which he may have wanted but eschewed outwardly)
I wrote as well as I could his obituary.
"Oh." said my smart alecky younger brother.
"That makes it a son-of-a-bitchuary, doesn't it?"
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