church

It is time to decide whether your in or your not
You cannot be lukewarm about this
Because God does not like lukewarm
God will spill it out of his mouth

(dunno what's his name pastor)

I'm still trying to figure out wat this pastor meant...anihoo todae was a waste of time actually they invited this pastor who got posted overseas to host a combined service todae...he wasn't the one who said the above actually...sometimes i think pastors when they run out of words in front of the congregration they will just anyhow form any sentence with the word god in it...and in true typical i'm a devout christian fashion the congregation goes "yes!" "yah!" "amen"....sometimes i actually doubt whether they really understand anything or not.

The pastor who came back wasn't much better anyhow...he drew imaginary metaphorical links between unrelated events...and i think he read too much into it. So i slept through a good part of it.

Anyhow the main idea behind the sermon was how jesus would come down and harvest those who had been faithful...and also to warn those with waning faith that the time was coming near when jesus would come down and pick the annointed ones blah blah...in the political world they call it a pep rally, a feel good talk with not much substance.

But the most irritating part actually came after the chruch service actually.

there was this 40-something lady on the chruch bus back home...at first she didn't make any impression on me all i remembered was that she was fliting with this 40 somthing old guy also...but then the guy mentioned that after listening to the stack of sermon cds he had he was going to give it away...at which point she exclaimed "Oh i have been praying to the lord jesus for these kind of people to come along" And then she goes on to complain about how some people were too selfish and that how they weren't willing to share the stuff they had because they paid for it...and somehow she made the connotation that they were in fact too materialistic...as opposed to what? she not willing to shell out bucks for this kinda of stuff and resorting to praying for it? Not like it was expensive aniwae...church sermon cds are cheap

so i thought ok...she's flirting with the guy and trying to get his cds at the same time...not my prob...

then someone she noes comes on the bus (we haven't left church grounds yet) ...and then she starts talking to her about a fren who decides to switch church because of some "conflict" with slut lady, and something about avoiding her even at the coffeeshop. The rest of the conversation goes on like this, "you know what the pastor was talking about the harvest? I don't think she's ready for it. She's too immature" And i thot wtf? I mean its okay to diss someone in your name but to do it in god's name? Okay for all the non-believers out there u can just take god to be like someone else u noe, like "john". And we just had a sermon a couple of weeks ago(which was actually useful) about not judging others, because god will ultimately judge you with the same conditions and he would be even more stricter...so i followed that advice and just thot maybe she meant it some other way...

Then in the middle of dissing her fren (who should be her fren no longer) she suddenly starts to praise herself! About how she prays for everybody and how she has been reading christian books faithfully and at this point i just shut her droning voice out...but i did hear one snippet after that ...about how her fren had actually offended her by not giving her chinese assements books when she gave her fren some stuff , and how her fren actually forgot about it(Really? She did? WTF cares) and how she was actually in the right and at this point i wanted to slap her and shout, "Whos the bloody immature one?!?!"

The last straw came when she actually stopped talking (finally!) and let the person she was talking to start talking...and kudos to that person who actually did some damage control...but unfortunately stupid lady starts going into "yes" and "yah" and "uh-huh" and shaking her head up and down for the rest of the journey...

So yes i had a terrible night. 'nuff said.