fast food church made the way you order?

Question

why does it seem that churches remind me of burger kings?
now this is the important part i am not saying all christains are this way but i do see a lot whom seem this way to me
"hello may i take your order"
"yeah, i'll have a bible heave on the "gays are bad" but light on the "help the poor" and i only want comandments 1,5,7,9,10 oh and make number 5 light, you know, make war ok "
"would you like hate with that"

do you see people around you who are this way? if i anger you that is ok the jews where angry when jesus drove the market out of the house of the lord. i am not jesus i dont clam to be holy. i only say the truth as i see it.

Additional Details
i was raise lutheran the first 17 years of my life i am now agnostic. i know a decent amount about christainity
and about number 5 i will not fight in wars i will not kill in self defence i will try to stop you form killing me and i will lay my life down for a stranger

Answer 1

Here in texas we have Church's Fried Chicken...and its freaking awesome!

Answer 2

Sad to say there is a term to what you are talking about. It called the "Seeker Friendly" Church. ( I have nothing to do with them)

About Old #5 I have an Answer for ya.
You are a cop and you have a hostage and a suspect with a gun to their head. You are going to have to use deadly force to solve this problem. If you aim, soot and kill the hostage you have just murdered someone. If you aim, shoot and kill the suspect you did your job and served the community.
What was the difference? They were both people. One action was lawful. The other was against the law.

If you do not want to fight then awesome! If you will lay your life down for a stranger then there is now greater love then that. You sir are awesome!
Take Care!
A Believer

Answer 3

Good question. I am a christian and believe that is comes as a whole package, you can't pick and choose.

Maybe its because of the kind of New Age movement, where you can believe what you want, and if it works for you then fine. You know just pick whichever commandments you like. Maybe also people think that they can cheat God, by pretending to be 'Christians' when they actually don't live their life like one.

You see what I mean?? Hope this helps, you will also find that the many denominations of Christianity will make Christians seem different. For example I do not believe in what Liberal Christians believe in, and also disagree with many Catholics. Maybe this is where your confusion arose from, I don't know what Lutheran Christians believe, but I am evangelic, maybe you should try that?

God bless you in your search for the answer to religion.

Answer 4

The church is a group of Christ believing people called the Body of Christ.

The church is NOT a building with laws, rules, regulations, orders, programs, etc. But it has been turned into incredibly destructive buildings of religious pressure and confusion.

Some churches have what's hilariously called "Worship" in the middle of service. As in, all we're supposed to do is just worship for the time THEY allow us to, and not 24/7 as our hearts allow us to. After all, once "worship" is over, and it moves on to something else..........we're no longer "worshipping" anymore!

SO many more Christians do need to pick up a bible and obey it, not just read it and pick and choose what's going to be good for financial gain, or a good show, or a powerful moment of emotion this week.

Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved.

Answer 5

I see you have been watching TV and quite possibly Joel Olstein.

Anytime you see such a large Church and such a large audience, it will be because people are being fed what they want to hear, instead of what they need to hear.

This unfortunately, includes yourself. Just because we may not like or understand a certain aspect of the bible does not make it unbelievable or worse yet untrue. It is all true and we must believe it all or believe none of it. That is free will and it is the only choices we are given.

Answer 6

Amen.

Remember that the battle between good and evil is happening inside the church not outside of its doors. (btw know that I am a Lay Pastor.)

Every congregation can be divided into thirds (anyone who meditates on this knows that I am right)
1- the saints, the real presence God acting in the church
2- the fence sitters, the ones who do not care.
3- the real presence of evil

Now no one is ever going to stand up and say they are presence of evil in the church, so you will never be able to get statistics to back that up.

However, the real question is if that is the real statistics in the church (and we all know it is), WHERE DOES EACH OF YOU STAND?

God Bless,
vic

Answer 7

People like the comfort of faith until it asks something of them in return. It's fine for people to sit back with a grin on their face figuring they're Christians and they love Jesus like Clinton loved a bl*wjob so that gives them a free pass to heaven. If they have to put down the Twinkies and actually do something constructive it all goes out the window, though.

Answer 8

Unfortunately, you are right. Many "churches" have their own specific guidlines. I, personally, follow the teachings of the Holy Bible from Genesis to Revelation, nothing added, nothing deleted. I may not "like it" in my flesh, but it is good for the spirit. I am not perfect, so I need a Savior (Jesus) to forgive me when I screw up. You can get a free, legitimate copy of the Holy Bible for your PC @ www.e-sword.net.

Answer 9

You hit the nail on the head, dude. This is an interesting question. Let those who hate gays and break the ten commandments tell us. God is love and expects us to love all people. At the same time, what God wants from us is a repetant heart always. No one will go to heaven because of the deeds he has done because those are filthy rags before God, as the bible says. We will go to heaven because of God's grace. God bless you, my brother.

Answer 10

Im a christian and I believe you make a good point about alot of churchs today. The pastors are getting worse and worse about preaching the soft message or not comming forward with the hole truth, scared they will run of the congrigation. I myself would rather hear a fire and brimstone message and I mean real fire and brimstone. Call me on my sin, show me my sinful ways, and help me better myself with God. After all that is what I believe the pastor is for.

Answer 11

You cannot turn off Jesus like a water faucet. Someday, soon I hope, God will bring you to your knees and you will cry out for his help and you will see that he has always been there for you. You may thing that you have shrugged off the cloak of Christianity, but you haven't. There is no such thing as converting from Lutheranism to agnosticism---once a Christian, always a Christian. Jesus loves you and he will not let you go no matter what you believe.