Greasing the Path of Salvation
December 19th, 2008Now This is a Church
I gave up trying to write music; I’ll pick it back up tomorrow. Software issues aggravated me for so long, I didn’t really have time to write anything. My computer’s audio circuits must have had corrupted drivers or something; I had to go to Asus’s infuriating site and download things. I think it’s okay now.
I got the birds out and listened to a disk I got in the mail. It came from Wayne Cochran. He and his crew are good about communicating with people who visit their church. They send emails and snail mail.
The thrust of the sermon was that we needed to set aside more time to spend with God. And he also talked about a couple other things that surprised me. He mentioned the book of Enoch, which I’ve been writing about, and which I bought recently. It seems like a lot of Christians are taking an interest in it these days. And–I think this may be the best part–he talked about pork. I am not kidding.
Toward the end of the sermon, he started talking about the kind of food he liked. He said some of the best eating he had ever had was cheap food. He mentioned fatback and biscuits and red eye gravy. You think I’m bad? He said he used to eat fatback and biscuits with Karo syrup. I loved hearing that stuff. My sister is anxious to visit his church again, and she has given up pork, and she wants me to give it up. I guess she has a surprise in store.
He also said he had a .357 by his bed and a Chinese assault rifle. And he has a motorcycle.
I don’t know if Wayne Cochran has the best doctrine, but I know this: as long as he keeps his accent and talks about pork and guns, I’ll be comfortable sitting in his church.
December 19th, 2008 at 10:39 PM
Didn’t someone say something about guns and religion recently? I forget…
December 20th, 2008 at 6:18 AM
Steve,
Don’t go getting touchy, and upset on me again.
..and deleting my comments.
Okay?
Yes?
V. Well.
If you want you could pray about it.
To see if your interpretation of the scriptures about pork is correct.
..and ask to be shown if it’s wrong.
Again don’t get upset.
..in the Old Testament it was an Abomination.
Very. Very. Big BIG Sin. Very.
You obviously come from a Church, (brought up in a Church) that interpreted this doctrine as changed.
I grew up in a Church that said it is not changed.
…and again don’t get upset.
Please?
…or suddenly morphed into a new sophisticated intellectual twist thingee.
That it’s okay now because Jesus died, so what was a complete abomination to G_D is now okay.
Remember not upset? : ): )
/me hands Steve a cup of Hot Chocolate to help.
One is not a Seventh Day Adventist anymore, although they have some correct doctrines, but they are not the only ones that say it’s wrong.
So do some Southern Baptists and Christian Messianic Churches.
Connie
December 20th, 2008 at 6:35 AM
Steve,
It would be very …if the coincidence of meeting Mike went another step.
…if he and your Sister ended up getting together.
That would be interesting.
Connie
December 20th, 2008 at 9:55 AM
His wife would sure find it interesting.
December 20th, 2008 at 9:57 AM
“Don’t go getting touchy, and upset on me again.
..and deleting my comments.”
I delete at will, and usually with good reason. If you want to get published, behave.
December 20th, 2008 at 10:01 AM
Angel (from God to Peter) “Kill and eat”. Pretty succinct.
Hard to twist that one.
December 20th, 2008 at 5:40 PM
Ed, I’m pretty sure that way about going ahead and preaching to the gentiles….no eating lizards and frogs, etc.
December 20th, 2008 at 5:42 PM
It seems fairly clear that Gentiles are not supposed to live under the Mosaic law, however Paul continued to be observant after conversion, so maybe the Messianic Jews are right to say that they are still obliged to keep kosher.
December 21st, 2008 at 11:20 AM
“…so maybe the Messianic Jews are right to say that they are still obliged to keep kosher.”
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Mmmmm…. Pork….
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I love the concept of kosher and use it to ‘straighten and strength’ certain thoughts and beliefs for myself.
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But… dang… I loooooove pork. There are so many different flavors. Ham, bacon, pork chops ..etc… Its hard to believe you can get so much from one animal. Okay, back to reality…
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I try to be as rational as I can about all this religious stuff. For me, the bible was written before science and during those times there was a lot of food running around that made people sick. Pork was just thick with Trichinosis.
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http://www.askthemeatman.com/pork_Trichinosis.htm
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How do you get people to stop and listen to advice so that they live healthy and long lives? Well, have God say it.
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Live a Kosher Life. The Jews do have it right (but I don’t have to give up pork now… at least as a Christian who is bolstered by science….).
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God bless ‘em…
December 21st, 2008 at 4:00 PM
“He also said he had a .357 by his bed and a Chinese assault rifle. And he has a motorcycle.”
But does he have a drillpress?