Through A Glass Darkly

 GALATIONS 6:3 "For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself."     To be in a small church in the Appalachian mountains is sometimes a one of a kind experience. Sometimes the building doesn't have AC and the windows are open, sometimes they are perched in a spot where there is just enough room for the scant membership to park in a gravel lot. Some of these families have been attending this church long enough that the church is named after them. They meet Sundays and Wednesdays and they worship. The follow their leader, the pastor.      Any self respecting pastor will tell you that he is following the Lord's will or, trying his best to. They are all different, some are easy going and quiet, and others are loud and arrogant. They look different, they act different, and they are all odd. Hi. I was one, and who knows I may be again. I can say this though they all have glaring problem in common. They are given authority by...

 The Bubble Burst All was given to my trust All I took to heart as truth All I built I built on thus And lost it all in bubble burst     Independent, Fundamental, Pre-Tribulation, Pre-Millenial, King James Only, Bible Believing, Baptist.     Friends that is a mouthful to describe a narrow and hard, and cold view at the world and the life that we must live here. I was born into this life, although when I was young I didn't know that. I attended church from the time I was a baby, to the time that my parents divorced, and even then my mom either made a way for us to go to church, or we found someone who would come get us. My father was a pastor, and my grand father, and many of my family members on that side were ministers. It was a thing. On some level I suppose I was expected to join in this long line of people that were ministers, and for my part I was excited to. I was born in the 80s and my memories from that all involve church. Whether it was the church my da...