BTW: for the rest of the semester, this blog is focused on my thoughts about life and God…come Christmas we’ll get focused…

Other note: Suffering is very hard, and I want to point out systemic issues, not act like suffering shouldn’t exist.

At church yesterday, the pastor says: “everyone bow your heads, and close your eyes” which as a preachers kid, I quickly learned meant “squint your eyes enough that he *thinks* they’re closed, but they’re still open enough to see all the people who raise their hand.” Don’t hate.

He then says: “everyone who is suffering, raise your hand so I can pray for you as we begin.” and without any qualifications to what that means, half the room shoots up their hand. HALF? there were about 200 people in the room, so that’s 100 suffering people, and 100 not-quite-suffering people.

Right now, I have no solutions. But if in the family of God, half of them are suffering, is that broken?

Or how about this: I *thought* there were about 1/4 suffering people, before the poll. Is that broken?

Love ya.

Tags: Church, prayer, suffering

Posted on Monday, October 26th in Church Theory.