Jump...

Today was Sunday, which equates to spending a good portion of the day at the Church. It is a great church, which has an active past, and hopefully a bright future. The future will hold in it the opportunity to grow, and train new Christians to go out and spread God’s Message. Everyone has a call from God on their life. The vast majority of people are not called into full time ministry, only a hand full really. They job should be to equip the rest of us, or the Laity, to go out and spread the message. However, in churches today, the most common approach is that the pastor should be brining in the new people, while the church body as a whole is more concerned with how did this, and I cannot believe that he said that.

The other day, I wrote about some of the crazy ideas that I had, and what would happen. Well I attempted one of the crazy ideas tonight, and it was good. I went to the praise team practice, not sure what was going to happen, only knowing that I feel led to participate. It was good.

Since I attend a Methodist Church, which is what is referred to as a connectional church; we have a hierarchy to the church system. Our pastors are sent to the church by the bishop. This morning the past was speaking about Annual Conference, the meeting where all the pastors and lost of lay people get together and review last year, plans for the upcoming year and some other things. This is also the time when the appointments (where a pastor will be) are made official. As the pastor explained this, I had a vision about paratroopers. Image a large plane with about 150 pastors in it, all with parachutes. The jump master is the Bishop and as they cross over a small town he yells, “Smith, we are over Fritch, Jump!” Out the door Smith jumps into a new church (with a little shove on the back from the Bishop). This thought or vision made me laugh as I though about this, and while the real system is different, in a sense it is the same.
(The Picture Below is an AP-File Photograph).
In an AP Story titled Lobbying reform slow despite scandals, writer Jim Abrams notes several republican Representatives who are in hot water with scandals. Do the democrats not pay homage to the lobbyist? I think that there are a few things to be sure of in regards to Washington fixing the lobbying situation. 1. They will be slow on the uptake, because who does not like getting free stuff. 2. The lobbyist have nestled themselves inside Washington like Salt Cedars on the Canadian River. 3. They are going to leave enough loopholes in the bills to comfortably allow their continued receipt of free stuff.