To all you Church/religion haters, Church is a hospital, not a place of honor/esteem, like university or an exclusive club. When you visit church, you are visiting the sick! Attending church is to receive God’s healing grace in a special way; you are also providing comfort for the other sick people.
Before you scoff, you all have benefited greatly from this hospital; the doctrine in your head was not zap there by God - you learned it from church/religion/hospital or people who did. Yes, God made it understandable to you, but it was actually provided by God’s Hospital.
We need to stop attacking our Hospitals! In fact, we should be continuing to receive treatment ourselves and working to improve the care provided by woefully imperfect doctors and nurses. Church is remedial - it provides basic treatment, which compels us to learn more and practice our sanctification; loving God and others imperfectly while we wait for perfection in Heaven. This condition/lifestyle is enrollment in the Kingdom of God within!
If you have received as much as you need at the moment from Church - don’t bite the hand that feeds you; remember your brothers and sisters who enjoy it and are benefiting now. Some of us have stopped watching Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers long ago, but there is a general consensus on how important and valuable those programs were in preparing children for higher learning and loving their neighbors.
Ok that was just analogy this thread is not about attacking ‘liberal’ programming. Does framing Church as a hospital change your perspective about church? Religion? Doctrine?
Before you scoff, you all have benefited greatly from this hospital; the doctrine in your head was not zap there by God - you learned it from church/religion/hospital or people who did. Yes, God made it understandable to you, but it was actually provided by God’s Hospital.
We need to stop attacking our Hospitals! In fact, we should be continuing to receive treatment ourselves and working to improve the care provided by woefully imperfect doctors and nurses. Church is remedial - it provides basic treatment, which compels us to learn more and practice our sanctification; loving God and others imperfectly while we wait for perfection in Heaven. This condition/lifestyle is enrollment in the Kingdom of God within!
If you have received as much as you need at the moment from Church - don’t bite the hand that feeds you; remember your brothers and sisters who enjoy it and are benefiting now. Some of us have stopped watching Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers long ago, but there is a general consensus on how important and valuable those programs were in preparing children for higher learning and loving their neighbors.
Ok that was just analogy this thread is not about attacking ‘liberal’ programming. Does framing Church as a hospital change your perspective about church? Religion? Doctrine?
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