Comments on This Side of the Pulpit: Welcome to Your Nightmare

Anastasia-I'm not sure what "truth-filled integrit...

2008-04-16T10:49:00.000-05:00

Anastasia-

I'm not sure what "truth-filled integrity" means. It would have made more sense for it to read "integrity" alone.

Perhaps the larger context of the document could shed light on it, but it does sound very strange.

...we also recommend that those members of this Sy...

2008-04-16T08:19:00.000-05:00

...we also recommend that those members of this Synod that cannot embrace the convention mandated mission of our church should feel free to leave this fellowship with truth-filled integrity...

Am I reading this correctly? To me, it says, "Take your truth and integrity elsewhere; what we want is your agreement."

???

Floyd? Wow. . . say, you don't happen to have a c...

2008-04-15T10:27:00.000-05:00

Floyd? Wow. . . say, you don't happen to have a copy of "Dark Side of Oz" do you? I've always wanted to see that.

Maybe we could have a showing of that or "The Wall" and then talk about Jesus at the end, count the people there for Ablaze, and fully participate in the new outreach goals of the Synod >=o)

Eric,I was thinking of this one (edited for sensit...

2008-04-15T09:19:00.000-05:00

Eric,

I was thinking of this one (edited for sensitive, politically correct eyes)

We're gonna find out
where you fans really stand.
Are there any qu##rs in the theatre tonight?
Get 'em up against the wall. --
And that one in the spotlight, he don't look right to me.
Get him up against the wall. --
And that one looks Jewish, and that one's a coo#.
Who let all this riffraff into the room?
There's one smoking a joint, and another with spots!
If I had my way I'd have all of ya shot.

("In the Flesh" Pink Floyd)

There are always plots and ideas of how to make th...

2008-04-15T07:43:00.000-05:00

There are always plots and ideas of how to make the Synod perfect (generally coming from both sides) - and there always will be. Will they be executed, eh, who knows.

I almost think a confessional purge would be fitting given how much people wanted Barry to do a liberal purge - and how much authority they voted him hoping he would use it. :sigh: never give an office authority because of the man in it - you don't know who the next one to be in that office will be.

At any rate, at times like this I find that there's nothing like a little bit of the Clash to give me proper perspective on life (continuing my 80s music response mode).

"When they kick at your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun

When the law break in
How you gonna go?
Shot down on the pavement
Or waiting on death row

You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh, the guns of Brixton"

Gee, I thought we hit this point in 1580. What ar...

2008-04-14T21:37:00.000-05:00

Gee, I thought we hit this point in 1580. What are they going to do, have for example converts like myself make a new profession of faith, replacing "especially as taught in the Little Catechism" with "especially as taught in the Unanimous Statement of Harmony"?

This is not to make light of it. Quite the opposite.