Comments on: Success As A Sign Of Godliness

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:53:51 +0000

I think the idea that you have to have a “successful” ministry to do anything is very prosperity gospel-ish a la Joel Osteen.

By: jon_w

jon_w — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:34:30 +0000

I’ve heard that John R. Rice said something like “It’s not a sin for a church to be small, it IS a sin for a church to stay small.” Hmmmmm…

By: Lou MelÃ nd

Lou MelÃ nd — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:21:59 +0000

@Jordan Maria: Thank you for sharing your experiences at BJU. At this point, I appreciate it!

By: Jordan Maria

Jordan Maria — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:45:02 +0000

When I was at BJ I was in the one of the choirs and I LOVED it! Rehersals were always fun because we had Dr. Coleman as our director. During the drama portion of the performance we would fool around in the green room… usually getting yelled at for being too loud…. I remember one girl that was reading a harry Potter book but had some other slip cover on it. Our turns to do Sunday campus service were the worst though. We’d either start to fall asleep and try to fight it off by trying to find our friends in the mass of students, or we’d drink so much coffee backstage that we were nearly bouncing out of our seats. My favorite thing we did was Living Gallery. Beautiful music and HOURS of fun rehersal. Best choirmate bonding time.

By: ExFundie

ExFundie — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 02:38:12 +0000

@Morgan. I agree!!

Evidently if a fundie manages to hit the jackpot after “scratching off a piece of dirt” and “building” his church up big – he is a regular hero that all us little people should learn from. He evidently used only pure, old fashioned methods to build it and God musta blessed him. It’s a miracle!! A MODEL CHURCH!!! THEIR WAY IS THE ONLY WAY RIGHT WAY!!!

Then someone who doesn’t use the good ole’ KJV, has a drum set and has women in pants on the platform is building his church up with methods akin to those employed by the forthcoming Antichrist. Evidently their methodology promotes confusion and carnality among the rank and file and all who join them are shallow, itching eared nominal Christians.

I have seen both sides of the coin here and testify that many times the latter is the more vibrant, biblical model of Christianity.

By: Darrell

Darrell — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 23:28:50 +0000

do you know how hard it was to find a brown, gold, tomato, or plum-colored formal that looked respectable enough to wear on stage?

I can honestly say no. I wore a dark suit, white shirt, and red or blue tie.

And I always thought rehearsals were fun.

By: Kari

Kari — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 23:18:32 +0000

Yes, and you paid for it by wasting Thursday evening and half of Saturday in rehearsals, and then having to stay so you could perform for BOTH vespers performances. And being a girl in vespers was absolute hell–you could count on never having access to the funky colored dresses they always wanted you to wear. I mean, honestly, do you know how hard it was to find a brown, gold, tomato, or plum-colored formal that looked respectable enough to wear on stage? Yeah. Not so much.

By: Darrell

Darrell — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:16:03 +0000

The trick for dealing with “Vespers” is to be in them. That way you get to goof off back stage during the parts you’re not on stage for.

By: exfundy

exfundy — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:14:53 +0000

Some of us call it “Sleepers”

By: Jordan M. Poss

Jordan M. Poss — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:46:11 +0000

At least, they call it Vespers.

Yeah, but it’s neither in the evening nor centered on prayer. Instead, it’s a music and drama service. Go figure. I always greatly preferred the drama-centered ones.