Why we blog
Posted on December 22nd, 2004 by catalyst into the Why We Blog categoryAs we now have eleven contributors on this site, I would like to explain why we are all here. Blog is short for web-log, and a web-log is basically just an online diary. A place to record your thoughts. It’s just that with this blog, our thoughts are more specific and focused on how we feel about CBC. Each of our contributors has had significant experience with City Business Church. Some of it good; some of it not so good. This blog is merely a forum for us to express how we feel about some of our experiences with this church. The best example of what I’m talking about, is the post right below entitled “The day I robbed God.” I thought the post said a lot about the dangers of preaching the law, as opposed to preaching Christ’s message of grace and compassion. In closing, let me say that the contributors all represent a specific age group. A very sought after age group for advertisers, actually. And an age group which is leaving CBC in droves. Why do you think that is?
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December 22nd, 2004 at 8:20 am
Free cookies @ The Well?
December 22nd, 2004 at 9:09 am
It’s almost Christmas
Buff the rusty diadem
Jesus reigns but twice a year
December 22nd, 2004 at 9:40 am
Free cookies that funny
December 22nd, 2004 at 10:48 am
Besides free cookies at the Well, I think that that generation just needs to realize that they could have thought for themselves at any church they attended, they just didn’t. You can blame that on the leadership or on your parents or whoever you want to, but really, you are just doing now what you could have been doing all along, and just weren’t. I know many free minded people and, I might add, free speaking people who aren’t even on leadership at CBC.
That being said, I had to leave the church I grew up in to really find my own way and discover the truth of God’s Word for myself. Was it that I couldn’t read the Bible and learn things before? No, it was that I became comfortable in what I was learning since it was what I heard over and over while I was growing up. I could have learned things for myself, but I didn’t. You hear it long enough and you start to take it as absolute truth, when ultimately, it is each person who is responsible to run what the Pastor is saying through the Word of God to check it for accuracy.
As long as I’ve known you boys, I have never seen a problem with you being free thinkers or even ever being cautious about what you say - that’s you! Church-Gal, I just wonder if it was a change of atmosphere that caused you to realize you could think for yourself - a fresh look and not really CBC holding you down?
P.S. I for one know it can be intimidating in a huge church, knowing your place and where you fit in. For some of us a smaller church is a better fit.
December 22nd, 2004 at 2:36 pm
Good thoughts…
December 22nd, 2004 at 7:09 pm
Dear HSH 96,
Your thoughts about growing up in a church and needing to leave that church to finally realize your own christianity has some truth to it. However, I think that again falls into the same common arguement the church uses against its lost members. According to the church in any situtation that a member leaves the church it inevitably is the members fault or shortcoming that caused the end result of leaving the church. I think that is the exact thing that this blog is fighting against. Look at all of these people that have agreed with this blog. The church argues that they all have issue inside of them that led them to the decision to leave the church. This is how the church continues to dodge the issue at hand that they in fact are misrepresenting God’s principles.
It is interesting to me that it is brought up so many times about how the Bloggers should be handling there offenses. I have seen it typed and been told. The BIIIIIIBLE SAYS!!! take your offences to your brother. Meanwhile the church doesn’t want to look at there possible misrepresentations of the word of God when, as the BIIIIIBLE SAYS the bloggers have weighed the teaching up against the Bible and found error in the teaching.
I know what you are thinking. “They haven’t found error, they are just flinging mud in bitterness”. I think if you all could quit whining about what a treachery this blog is and look at the arguements with an objective eye you might find there are good facts to back up the arguements.
I know you have already made up your mind as to how Church Gal’s mind was freed. But if you could for a minute look back at CBC and see how a message of give to get can create an opression over someones life. I myself lived a lot of years at CBC being angry with myself, feeling I had to do better in the eyes of God to gain his love. I don’t feel that I could have truly understood God’s grace and love if it was followed by a give to get or cap on God message.
Love always,
Faithful Follower
December 23rd, 2004 at 7:30 am
Hey Guys just would like to say that I think you have some good points that are being lost in some very bad ones. It is very important how and why and where you express your good points. I think there are some people in this Blog that want real change others want to simply rail, which by the way is mentioned in the New Testament. Put the titheing issue aside for a moment. Do you know what the Bible says about unforgiveness?
December 23rd, 2004 at 8:02 am
No, I don’t. You should start a blog about it.
December 23rd, 2004 at 8:16 am
I am just saying catalyst I hear what you are saying and agree with some of it. We can not controll what happens to us and how others act but we can controll our actions and reactions. I think it is great that you think for yourself about things, that is great, I think some things definately need to be questioned, but there is a definate line in scripture that I would never want to cross or see others cross.
December 23rd, 2004 at 9:25 am
No, you’re right. I probably do need to forgive the church. We’ll see…
December 23rd, 2004 at 10:07 am
Home School High,
You bring up some good and valid points. We all need to ask ourselves why are we doing this. If it is simply an excuse to bash another church or to blame someone else for issues that we have then its wrong, and we will not grow. However, if there are legitimate points being made then CBC should listen.
Church Gal would like to point out that she had a change of atmosphere @ the age of 18 when she left LTCF and went to CBC.
That is all.
November 25th, 2005 at 8:34 pm
Why we blog is a fun title to find. It just amused me when I came across it on my search
for Cathedral in these blogs. Amazing what you can find and where you end up.