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Posted on March 22nd, 2005 by catalyst into the Uncategorized categoryI guess I just want to clarify the purpose of this blog.
This blog is not really directed at City Bible members. Because I do not believe this blog will change their mind. This blog is directed primarily at those young ex-members of CBC, who are tired of the way CBC has hijacked the definition of “Christianity” and turned into a message of wealth and personal gain.
I do not use humor and sarcasm to change people’s mind. I use humor and sarcasm to make myself laugh. Because I’m funny. And no one makes me laugh harder than me.
However, I do believe what I am writing. And I know there are a lot of ex-members who are excited to see and hear someone stand up to CBC.
I recently asked Reformed Pope why he continued to blog, and he responded with this short testimony:
I don’t care about CBC. I was up on 96th Street today, there was a kid couldn’t have been more than ten years old. He was asking his pastor if he had any read any other blogs as good as City Bible Watch. That’s who I care about. The little kid who needs blogs, because his parent or guardian won’t let him read the excessive church humor and strong sarcastic content you and I take for granted.
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March 22nd, 2005 at 10:02 pm
Yes, hopefully this blog can be a wake-up call to many a young person being raised in CBC that God is so much bigger than the four walls, er, I mean two domes of a church. (I still think they should paint them like big eyeballs.)
But seriously, hopefully people will realize that when they go to argue with us and all that comes to mind is what their pastors have told them for years and not their own thoughts they will start searching God out for themselves instead of accepting it the way it is in their surroundings.
Hey, maybe you guys could register the blog as a non-profit and write up your own doctrine and set up a membership program. (Wait a second…) Although I have gotten more out of this than I ever got out of CBC.
March 22nd, 2005 at 11:31 pm
have you guys ever prayed with someone? wait there is more, have you ever prayed with some one and they were like preaching a sermon or making these emphatic points during their prayers and you thought “shut up why are you preaching to God He knows everything stupid” then you realize that they are preaching at you then you thought “shut up grow some balls and talk to me stupid” or they might just be showing off what they know publicly as to get the recognition for being really spiritual. or maybe that is just that they are new zelous believers and that is just the way they pray. anonymous #93
March 23rd, 2005 at 1:25 pm
Yeah, people do this. And your point is…?
March 23rd, 2005 at 2:14 pm
Yeah, this sort of thing happens all the time in an environment that encourages appearance of godliness over sincere relationships. I’ve gotten many a prayer directed my way full of catchy scriptures that didn’t do one thing for me, but I’m sure it made the person who was praying it feel really good about themselves.
We as Christians it seems are always ready to try and diagnose a quick-fix scripture for a problem, but a lot slower to actually get to know someone and care about them in a meaningful way. But that is what Jesus did, and what we need to strive for as well.
March 23rd, 2005 at 2:55 pm
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March 23rd, 2005 at 2:58 pm
I was just looking at your counter at the bottom and doing some quick math, I think that means you guys are averaging something like 200 or 250 hits a day since you’ve been online. Wow. Of course, it probably started out with a lot less, so that means there’s a lot more per day recently. I for one would like to see your very own website.
March 23rd, 2005 at 7:27 pm
catalyst did you make it to church on sunday? if not that is ok i went for you and all ex cbcer’s who don’t go to church anymore. i try never to miss church. i’m waiting for that sunday morning when my pastor comes up and gives me an award for not missing a single sunday, just like the kid who goes thru 4 years at tchs without ever being absent. i am sure that half way thru his senior year dude was haching up a lung running a fever snot flowing like a pressure washer and he was like “i am not throwing in the towel, i will recieve that certificate, i didn’t come this far to to quit , i am not a quitter, i want my props”
anyways i want my props from my pastor so i will be present sunday mornings no matter if i get monkey pox. catalyst don’t tell me that your going to miss easter sunday, that is a cardial sin. but if you do i got your back i will be there for you regards ananymous #93
May 1st, 2005 at 5:32 pm
i was a bit surprised yet intrigued to come across a blog questioning and challenging the ethical nature (or lack thereof) of the business practices of CBC. as a child, i attended with my parents, but went kicking and screaming every freakin’ sunday morning. when i was 10 yrs old, i remember it was a sunday evening and they handed out the “annual financial report,” meaning CBC’s desperate attempt at financial accountability. i sat there and did the math: the “non-profit organization” (as their postage stamp claims) made 10 million dollars of sheer profit the past year. this was long before all of the expansions to the west side but including the faith harvest BS. i couldn’t believe it. to speak to the issue of worshipping god, aka FD, i remember one sunday evening when someone gave some sort of prophetic “word” and then all of the pastors there started kneeling down and and bowing before FD as the main guy talked about how he is so full of the lord (i was thinking he was full of something else, but clearly nobody asked me!). i couldn’t believe it, and i looked around to see everyone in the auditorium was in a trance, just taking it in. needless to say, i walked out and went home, terrified at what i had just witnessed and thinking about how the place in so many ways was a yuppified, SVU, Nordstrom-ridden cult. disgust at their financial indignity was only one of the many reasons i hit the road out of that place full of manipulation and greed. I live thousands of miles from it now but still know a few people who attend and it makes me sad that they can’t see that the place they call “their home” and “their family” is really only “their bank account drain.” yet, they refuse to listen to the voice of dissent, and call it a jaded, bitter, resentful voice. sounds to me like the jaded voice is that of CBC. i do hope this blog throws a wrench in their mess of “religion”. power to the people!
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