Good news of a kind. We've managed to corner the sloth bear in the doily sheds, and have started negotiations. He's demanded a helicopter to get him over the border to Hertfordshire, and a bucket of ants.
He's particularly grumpy over this whole Bible-reading business. We're a progressive, liberal, inclusive community that welcomes all faith and nuns. Whereas he's an Evangelical sloth bear.
So he reckons we have too many Bible readings at services. Can we cut them down a bit, he asks, and sing more songs?
Given that he is Evangelical, I'd have thought that he'd want more, not less bible readings, But I know that Evangelical churches and people believe in the bible differently from us mere mortals, they believe it in a very literal way, with little room for interpretation. So, I suspect the Evangelical Sloth Bear is actually complaining about the choice of readings and the preaching connected to them. Perhaps is he were to be locked into a room with a liberal theologian he'd mend his ways.
ReplyDeleteHave you not been to an Evangelical service lately? One reading, two if you're lucky, while the liberals and catholics are having three and a psalm.
DeleteHave you not been to an Evangelical service lately? One reading, two if you're lucky, while the liberals and catholics are having three and a psalm.
DeleteHave you not been to an Evangelical service lately? One reading, two if you're lucky, while the liberals and catholics are having three and a psalm.
DeletePrecisely.
DeleteGiven that he is Evangelical, I'd have thought that he'd want more, not less bible readings, But I know that Evangelical churches and people believe in the bible differently from us mere mortals, they believe it in a very literal way, with little room for interpretation. So, I suspect the Evangelical Sloth Bear is actually complaining about the choice of readings and the preaching connected to them. Perhaps is he were to be locked into a room with a liberal theologian he'd mend his ways.
ReplyDeleteA WHOLE reading? Or just a verse, minus context, deconstructed into its component syllables over the course of a 45 min "talk"?
ReplyDeleteIf he wants more songs, tell him there's a vacancy on 2nd cornet at our Salvation Army Corps
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