And so I continue...

}{'lo everyone! Well, I think it's about time to continue my post from a little over a week ago. You know, this one. Lol, don't worry I'm not gonna ask you to go back and read the old one now. Basically that post was a general overview of all I want to talk about, and believe it or not all those seemingly seperate subjects are all linked. For those of you who didn't read my last post I'll just offer a little recap:

The bible says that when we become Christians we take up Christ's yoke which is "easy and light." Yet, how in the world does that fit in with BORING bible reading; tedious "quiet times"; embarrassing "acts of service"; having to go to church every yawn-inducing Sunday; and then to cap it all off, eternity floating around in a bunch of boring clouds!?!?! That's not easy. That's not "light"!

All of those subjects are a lot of theological ground to cover. I mean, I'm practically touching on every christian virtue with the exception of salvation here. Lol, so instead of creating a single massive super-post that noooobody (except maybe Jason and myself) would ever read I decided to break it up into several smaller(ish.... OK still really big) posts. Lol, now honestly I wasn't planning on continuing that now, or in this way, but it works.

Today, at 10:30ish on a Sunday, while most of you are in church, where am I? I'm at home, in my PJ's typing away at this post. And THAT is what I want to cover today. NO not PJ's lol. Church.

OK, let's face the facts, Church is very often really, really dull. We have to wake up early to go to Sunday School where we bump into a bunch of other groggy, bored people who are equally displeased about having to come to Sunday school. Or, even worse, we hit one of those goody-two-shoes Christians who are actually excited about all the super-bland stuff that's going on and is pushing us to be excited too. What in the world is there to be excited about Chrurch!?!?

Then, after we finish eating the donuts (hey, every dark cloud has it's silver lining) we go off into a bunch of little rooms to hear the same bible stories repeated over and over again. Noah, Jonah, Abraham, all those dudes. Heck we could probably teach half of the stories. Once all that is finally over with we shuffle off to service where the pastor stands up and talks for a half hour about things that are either really complicated, make us squirm, or are just uninteresting. Not to mention all the singing and whatnot. Sure, SOME of the songs are at least remotely cool, but what in the world is supposed to be going on during "worship" anyway? Seems like a bunch of old people swaying in their seats to me.

We would rather be at home playing video games, watching TV, chatting with our friends, or sleeping. Am I right? Why? How does Sunday fit in with this whole easy and light thing? An excellent question.

So we have established that Sunday is currently quite boring (lol, like I really needed to tell you that.) The question we should be asking is why. Why is Sunday so dull? If I'm a Christan and I've got some weird Holy Spirit thing supposedly going on inside shouldn't I WANT to worship God? Shouldn't I WANT to learn more? Shouldn't I WANT to talk with my fellow Christians?

Well, I'm afraid the answer to that one will have to wait till next time. I'm trying to keep these posts at least fairly short so there is a greater chance of people actually reading them :-) . This is kinda the overview of what I want to say about Church. Next posts gets down to the practicalities of why in the world Church is boring, how we REALLY can find it interesting, and that NO IT DOESN'T take a robotic Barbie smile. I hope you will at least look in on that one.