WISDOM LIST #3

Things to Watch Out for In Churches

1. The leader wearing a religious costume.
2. The leader wearing a religious title with the
costume.
3. Religious Smells and Bells and Whistles.
4. Religious talk causing voice, diction and
enunciation changes from the speaker.
5. Worship leaders in tight jeans with holes in the
knees, un-ironed shirt with shirttail out, excessive
amount of tattoos and piercings, too much hip-hop
talk mixed with Jesus talk.
6. The Pastor in tight jeans with lesser holes, ironed
shirt with shirttail out and lesser amount of tattoos
and piercings and lesser hip-hop talk.
7. Smoke and Flashing Lights with overhead lights
turned down dark as a cocktail bar.
8. Music so loud it drowns out the Voice of the Lord
and any other voices.
(‘If it’s too loud…you’re too old.’ I could be.)
9. That over emphasis is given to milking the
flock for money for 10? minutes (half the length of
the sermon time, see #13).
10. When visitors are asked to stand and be
recognized. (Only one time does that need to
happen!)
11. When they have your kid’s number in a digital
read out up front and it flashes code red and
everyone can watch you walk out to deal with
your kid.
12. There is never a prayer over 21 seconds long.
13. There is never a sermon over 21 minutes long.
14. If the church does not have an espresso coffee
bar with healthy nutritional expensive juice drinks.
15. A Lobby Bookstore that has mostly CD’s and
talks by the main pastor and very few books.
16. A trendy name like The Wave, The Well or The
Crossing, The Pit, or Lucky’s Lounge…. Etc.

And from the sacrifice of the peace offering, as a food offering to the Lord, he shall offer the fat covering the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,  and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove with the kidneys. Leviticus 3:3-4 (Ooops, different covenant)

“But blessed are your eyes, for they see.” Jesus