Wanna be an Evangelical Minister? #6.
How do you start? First, you hit up friends and family members for financial support. That will soon run out. Soon, they will ask that dreaded question: “Why don’t you get a job, Robert, instead of trying to be Pastor Bob?” So, as soon as you hear the call of money pouring out from collection […]
Schisms: tax-avoidance growth industries.
The number of Protestant groups has multiplied from 1,600 a century ago to an amazing 40,000! An incredible forty thousand separate schisms now call themselves “Christian”. Lately, it’s been popular for the new Protestant groups to call themselves “Evangelical”. When talking to someone about their new “church”, it’s always fun to watch them think they’re […]
Big argument at Catholic Fundamentalism HQ.
Every educated person has heard of ironmongers and fishmongers. And, gossipmongers. We know what “iron”, “fish”, and “gossip” mean. What are “mongers”? From a dictionary: “Monger: From the old English mangere “merchant, trader, broker,” from mangian “to traffic, trade,” from Proto-Germanic *mangojan, monger, higgler”), from Latin mango (genitive mangonis) “dealer, trader, slave-dealer,” . . . […]
Who is the god of all schisms? Self.
“I am a person in my own right!” “I’m smart, too!” “I’m as good as anybody else!” “I can think for myself!” “I must be true to myself.” Such are the titles of the most popular songs in the hymnals of the damned. At the end of the day, those in schism have separated themselves […]
Who are the shallowest schismatics?
The new kind of Protestants are only dimly aware of The Catholic Church. They know there is a Catholic Church. They may even have Catholic ancestors. They feel Catholicism is simply another Christian group, much like their own. “Catholics are a little more formal than we are, with lot of rituals. But, they’re a lot […]
Shopping in the Schism Store. Be careful!
We see shallow closets in older homes and marvel at how few clothes those in previous generations had. Most stores were small. There wasn’t much variety. Henry Ford summed up the spirit of that recent age: “They can have any color of car they want, as long as it’s black.” In recent generations, automated production […]
The disorder has a name: schismism
There are wheat and weeds. There are the saved and the lost. There are those within The Sheepfold and those without. In the final analysis, there is either Catholicism or schismism. Schismism has a definition: schismism: preferring to be in a schism; separated from The Church Jesus Founded. syn: believing that simply saying “I believe, […]
Of the 40,000 schisms, which is worst?
Jesus founded One Church. The founders of 40,000 separate schisms don’t care about that. They identify themselves as “Christian” and pay no attention to the degree of divergence between their home-made “ladder to Heaven” and The Church founded by Jesus. We begin to get a picture of the size of the schismatic ego when we […]
Smart rich person meets Pastor Bob.
The Pastors Bob need rich donors to build the huge and gleaming mega-churches their vanity demands. They all have marketing plans. Mega-church marketing seems to be “Focused on the family”. But, most families don’t have much money. Their real marketing plan focus is on attracting the wealthy. One rich donor can drop a hundred times […]
Clearly, St. Paul warns of Protestantism.
The Daily Reading from Eph 4:7-16, includes this passage. Once again, St. Paul warns about schisms. We have but to read with an open mind: “And He gave some as Apostles, others as prophets, others as evangelists, others as pastors and teachers, to equip the holy ones for the work of ministry, for building up […]