If everyone was just like you........
 

What would your church be like if everyone in it was just like you?

Disfunctional.:donuts :fireworks

Boring!

If everyone was just like you........
 

This question reminds me of what my late father said when he was told

he HAD to to take up a weapon. He had signed up, after being drafted in

the mid-1940's, as a non-combant in the Army. He was trained as a medic

and went overseas. There they issued the weapons and told him he had to

carry a weapon because they left all those ------ -------, back in the

United States. He told them the Constitution of the United States gave him

the right, as an American to not bear arms. He would do what his

conscience would allow him. They told him, "Go on and get your weapon",

He picked up his medical bags and with that one of the officers yelled,

"Wouldn't we be in a h--- of a mess if everyone thought like you"? Dad

replied "No, Sir, if everyone thought like me, there would be no war". He

came back after the war and I learned by example that just because some-

one said you HAD to do something, didn't make it necessarily so. It would

be interesting to know just how many young men in their twenties, with a

wife and four very young children, would stand up under pressure to those

who would insist they do something against their conscience. There are

those who would insist that those who would not carry a weapon were

cowards. No friend, to me the heros are the ones who will stand in the

face of opposition and declare, "There are just some things I am not will-

ing to violate and that is MY conscience". I am SO proud of my late father

as I saw him stand and show his children how to stand for righteousness.

Then it was left up to us what we would do with OUR conscience. There

is a difference in having a conscience for pleasing God and having our own

will and way. There really is a BIG difference!

Happy Independance Day to all! Thank God for the liberty we can have in

God and in the freedoms we have as Americans. Someone who went before

us paid for ours. Our inheritance is what we receive. Our legecy is what we

will pass on to our children and grandchildren, etc.

J.W. Harv, I would hope that if everyone in the church we attend thought

or was like me, we'd have CHURCH!:clap:clap:clap:yahoo:yahoo:yahoo

Blessings,

Falla39

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Like me? Well we would worship...I love to worship...

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I would feel sorry for whomever would be the monthly pastor. :killinme

Chewy!!! That sandwich in your avatar is just nasty looking!!! That's that same process cheese they put on nachos at baseball games - eeeekkooooo!

:vomit

Baskin Robbins would have to make a whole lot more Chocolate Fudge Ice Cream...............

I just can't win, I was chastised for the misguided fella in black and white, someone else asked me to use Chewbaca, now you. :haloplug

Don't talk to me please. I'm going to be sick!!!!


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I'm with Sis Alvear......we'd be a super worshipful buncha folks who would back the preacher up no matter what he preached!!! :clap

That's not good. Jim Jones would've loved ya!

Seriously?

My church would look like this...http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j1.../JonChurch.jpg

Cookie cutter Christians....too cute!!:slaphappy

If everyone were just like me they would have been out at the bay having a blast..lol...:fireworks

Monkeyman!!! You are the bomb! That was awesome!!!!

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as a heartattack!!........talkin bout MY preacher though of course!!!! He da man!!! :party

again.......I was talkin bout MY church and MY pastor! Too bad most people don't have that sort of confidence in their Man of God. :amen

Now that's a scarey thought! :uhoh:covereyes

Monkeyman was that taken at a family reunion?????? LOL

MY EYES!!!!

MAKE IT STOP!!!!


IT BURNS!!!!

If everyone was like me, churches would go out of business. lol.

I object to the question, on the grounds that it is impossible to know the answer. One could only begin to guess at the answer if they had met one other person just like them. Which, of course, nobody has.

Maybe it would be perfect harmony, and maybe it would be a brawl. Maybe we'd just sit there and stare at each other, occasionally nodding our heads.

And to those of you talking about backing your preacher, the thread originator did say 'everyone.' That would include the preacher, the music leader, etc.

And I think if the preacher were just like me, I would get bored pretty quick, because I would already know what he was gonna say next . . . :rolleyes2

Looks like one of those Alabama churches.



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Thanks, gotta love photoshop

Now that right there is fuuuny!:slaphappy

Now that right htere is downright mean...true, but mean!:killinme

Beleive it or not, I also was trying to make a point with my goofy pic...wouldn't your church be just as goofy if everyone was like you? To me that reeks of pride and what is REALLY taking over our churches, the "church for me" mentality instead of church for the lost. I want to see every color, worship style, class, blood covered sins, political flavor in my church...then we are reaching the world.
What stopped me from making a commitment to this walk for a long time was the mis-informed thought that I had to be a cookie-cutter christian. That I would have to look and act like a white 1950's businessman...then I realized that God made me and loved me for me...its been a sweet ride ever since.

I'd be miserable and most likely they'd be miserable too....

I'm glad theres only one Malvaro in this world.... two would be too many....

Monkeyguy,

THAT IS HILARIOUS! You win the most creative post!!!

Completely imbalanced, worthless, impotent, without followers!!!!!

International First Apostolic Revival Tabernacle.... Never would have believed it If I hadn't seen it...

Not only a Visual experiance but a boviniess fragrant one as well.... :D

Truly rolling on the floor laughing my head off!!!!!!:slaphappy:slaphappy:slaphappy

I could tell you stories of platform uh, blunders, he he he!!

That would be a wonderful and lively thread, Monkeyman - do it!!!!

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If everybody in a church was just like me ,everybody would get along with each other ,but the singing would be awful.