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Re: CofC folk wisdom and sayings...
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 12:19 pm
by SolaDude
Struggler wrote:SolaDude wrote:Ivy wrote:Upon being asked why they don't try to evangelize a multiple times divorced and re-married sweet woman who often visited the church with family:
"Why honey, she never would get her marital situation straightened out".
That's one of the saddest, and most angering thing I heard in all my years.
Contrast that with something I once heard at a United Pentecostal Church I attended for a while:
"We just cast out the net and bring them in. It's up to Jesus to clean them up."
Never understood where the thoughtlessness came from...but I think as I look back now, that it was simply an outgrowth of their expertise in self-righteousness...it just results in reckless, insulting behavior....I remember when I was young, my Mom was so proud that her first grandchild was a girl adopted by my oldest brother....Well, you know, the guy that did the announcing in church said "(My Mom and Dad) announce the arrival of their first grandchild, a girl...she was adopted but we all know they love her just the same"....I really have nothing but four-letter words coming to my mind as I remember that [derogatory term] saying that....my Mom cried and cried in the car going home after church.....and she nonetheless forgave him....
Some of my own C of C relatives said that to me, more than once. One of 'em, a Bible-worshipping socialist hag, told me adoption isn't God's will and that I really should have been aborted and "need to understand" that.
Yet THEY exist in their "saved" state as adoptees into God's family, grafted into the tree....*#$%Q#$^%*
Re: CofC folk wisdom and sayings...
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 4:48 pm
by Ivy
OMG I am ROFL!!!!
a Bible-worshipping socialist hag
I can't even come up with a visual for that phrase......
Some of my own C of C relatives said that to me, more than once. One of 'em, a Bible-worshipping socialist hag, told me adoption isn't God's will and that I really should have been aborted and "need to understand" that.
That one has me speechless. What did you say to her, Struggler?
Re: CofC folk wisdom and sayings...
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 12:26 am
by Struggler
I told her that she had just said all I needed to know about her.
Re: CofC folk wisdom and sayings...
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 8:32 am
by Ivy
Struggler wrote:I told her that she had just said all I needed to know about her.
Good for you!! Her inner world must be difficult for her to navigate.
Re: CofC folk wisdom and sayings...
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 8:47 am
by Ivy
"She sure drove her ducks to a poor market". (A woman marries a man who is a ne'er-do-well.)
Re: CofC folk wisdom and sayings...
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 7:51 pm
by Ivy
"He that is stingy is not honest". (Said about a tightwad business man in the church.
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Re: CofC folk wisdom and sayings...
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2018 10:33 pm
by B.H.
Re: CofC folk wisdom and sayings...
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 8:11 am
by Ivy
Re: CofC folk wisdom and sayings...
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 8:16 am
by Ivy
"Vain repetitions". (quietly muttered about an old man who liked to pray on and on when everyone was ready for him to hurry up and finish
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Re: CofC folk wisdom and sayings...
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 9:34 am
by Ivy
"holier than thou" (said about someone who took cofc rules more seriously / literally than you did and was preachy with it.
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I am cracking myself up with these.