Well, Easter is over. Hopefully, you attended a church service that made a good enough impression on you that you’ll go back sometime, maybe at Christmas.
I hope the people at the church were friendly but not so much that it was awkward for you. I they made you feel welcome but didn’t invade your privacy with personal questions about your family, job, hobbies, or interests.
I hope everyone told you how happy they were to have you join them. There are a lot of church options and you greatly honored that congregation by attending. Hopefully, those people communicated their appreciation of you with sincerity and enthusiasm.
I hope you enjoyed the music and weren’t bored by the sermon. More importantly, I hope you were not made to feel responsible for killing Jesus. It’s a shame when a preacher dumps cold water on the celebration of The Resurrection by talking about the reason Christ died in the first place.
Overall, I hope your church experience was comfortable. One clear theme to be found in scripture is that life with Jesus is free from discomfort, inconvenience, and heartache. I hope your Easter experience was as comfortable as discipleship itself.
If you can’t think of any complaints about your Easter experience, maybe you should go back to that church. Only if you want to, though! It is not necessary to go to church in order to earn God’s love. He will continue to care for you without any acknowledgment or gratitude on your part. He is so patient and kind that He allowed you to make Easter Sunday all about you, rather than His beloved Son.
Easter is over and I hope your church experience filled you with self-righteousness. Jesus came back to life after his sacrifice. You are also alive after sacrificing an hour of your weekend at church. Hopefully, you’re able to grasp the sarcasm in this comparison.
“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be my disciple. And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.”
(Luke 14:26)
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I understand the point you are making, but then I attend our Sunday worship service about 2 out of 3 Sundays. Given your style I find myself wondering if you are effectively reaching those you are trying to reach or are you “preaching to the choir” as it were.
Thick with sarcasm. OUCH!
— There is a butt for every joke. Ridicule occurs when we make someone else the butt of the joke.
— With self-deprecation we make our self the butt of the joke.
— Humor happens when the butt of the joke is us — me, myself, I, and everybody else.
Humor is easiest on the heart. I guess it is also easier to produce. There is not a shortage of material. Sometimes I think God created us to amuse Himself.
ROTFL! (well, actually on the bedspread, not the floor).
Much to unpack in each sentence. This one finally did me in:
“ I hope your Easter experience was as comfortable as discipleship itself.”
😂😂😂😂😂 🩸❤️