If all else fails in the fundy plight to socialize people into mimicking the acceptable “standards” of behavior, playing the maturity card is the last resort.
“Oh, you just don’t understand how important this is because you’re only a baby Christian. I know you’re 53 and have children older than I am (after all I’m only 26 and just got my Bible degree) but if you’ll just do what I tell you then soon you’ll be a grown-up Christian like I am…”
The following note was submitted in what I can only imagine was a response to the last video posted:
If you people spent as much time worrying about lost souls as you do ridiculing Bible believing Christians for taking a stand and taking the Bible for what it SAYS instead of picking it apart and correcting it like your staff probably does, then maybe you could get something productive done. You WILL stand before a Holy God one day and give an account for what you have done and continue to do. Go ahead and get your jabs and laughs in now…but rest assured…God doesn’t think you’re funny and I know I sure don’t and do not appreciate this one bit. I’m going to pray that God will deal with your hearts about this nonsense and that you will come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ instead of running a childish and unGodly website!
(signed) Mark B.
So I’m ridiculing the Bible, correcting the Bible, God’s not amused, and I’m not saved.
Excellent!
When SFL started half a decade ago…
…Nobody yelled “first.” In fact nobody yelled much of anything.
…20/20 hadn’t put IFB abuses on the national radar.
…The “Polished Shaft” video hadn’t yet been recorded.
…Jack Schaap was still a free man. So was Ernie Willis.
…BJU wasn’t nationally accredited. Neither was PCC.
…In fact the most recent graduates of Fundy U were still in high school.
…7.7 million pages had yet to be loaded.
…Most fundies still thought Facebook was evil. Twitter wasn’t even on their radar.
…Barack Obama had just been elected President.
…None of us had yet met “George.”
…The IBBERR had zero entries. Old Paths University had issued zero doctorates.
…I had half as many children and still knew what “free time” was.
…Many readers here still self-identified fundamentalists (or at least still going to a fundy church).
What do you hope to see change over the next 5 years?
photo by By Dennis Crowley
Today’s challenge is to give something for which you are thankful in the style of a fundamentalist humble brag.
I am thankful that I got 20 people saved this last weekend.
I am thankful that I have never even tasted beer.
I am thankful that I have no clue what the inside of a movie theater looks like or how great their sound systems are or how exorbitant the popcorn prices are…
Taking a cue from the recent headlines about the hardships caused by a partial government shutdown, today’s challenge is simply to complete this sentence:
Since the fundamentalist churches in my town shut down our community really misses ____________.
(Think hard)