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- Title: Don't Make God Mad (First Person)
- Author : The Humanist
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Reference,Books,Religion & Spirituality,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 49 KB
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EVERY SUMMER, our church held a revival. Brother Joe H. West, our grandfatherly pastor, invited Baptist preachers from all over the country to travel to San Antonio and speak to us. It was a week-long event, Sunday to Sunday, with two sermons a night for eight straight nights. To a boy like me--one acclimated to weekends ruined by church--revival week gave me a full-blown Job complex. Every night I'd have to get dressed up to listen to some preacher I'd never heard of--or would ever hear from again--and fight the small, intense struggle to keep my eyes open. Brother Joe hadn't trained us to stay alert during sermons. Our poor pastor was a natural-born bore, lacking the spitting gusto that spawns a megachurch or a Sunday morning TV show audience. The Prodigal Son was his go-to sermon: a sweet tale of unconditional forgiveness, perfect for a sweet old patriarch who was better suited to running a staid Sunday school discussion than jolting sinners into repentance. Sometimes he created object lessons out of gewgaws he found around his house, or he complained about uncontroversial sins like homosexuality and abortion. Even as a boy, I knew that if our church was going to have a real, spontaneous revival, Brother Joe couldn't be expected to deliver the rhetorical spark that would light the fuse. No, if our revival was going to produce a spontaneous groundswell of Christian passion, it would have to involve visiting preachers and, so, needed to be scheduled weeks in advance.
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