What many of my readers may not know about me is that I battle daily with my inner demons. I was raised going to church every Sunday and my godfather was even the pastor. however, I will admit that I have faltered from that path these days. However in recent times I’ve found myself finding faith and belief again and making small but incremental changes to reflect a better me. The hardest part for me is to find myself sitting in the pews again when all my faith in man and his churches has wavered. I know any Christian readers I may have will say to me that it is not the church or the man that I am there for but the Father and Saviour who I’m showing my love to. I know that they will all be sending me to the numerous verses in Corinthians that promote worship in groups but I guess that is a battle for The Father and I to work out.
My main issue and why I am writing this blog is the hypocrisy that I’m seeing with churches today. What hypocrisy am I talking about? Pastors profiting as members of the church struggle to make ends meet. Many church goers follow their pastor blindly as he represents to them God's representative on earth. They pay their tithes and contribute to every offering made be it building fund or someone needs school clothes fund. Yet, especially with these new “super churches,” we are seeing pastors preaching in designer suits, living in big houses and driving luxury cars. I have issues with this type of behavior.
I’m in no way saying that a pastor does not deserve to live a “comfortable” life but many of these pastors today are living way more than comfortable. The bible states that it is easier for a camel to enter into the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the gates of heaven. This verse obviously doesn’t extend to some pastors. The money collected from offerings in my views need to go to maintaining the church, helping those members of the church who are in need of help and yes helping the pastor and his family make ends meet as well. Making ends meet does not however include driving a BMW, to your upstairs and downstairs home to watch your children play their wii on a big screen television.
Any pastor living life luxuriously instead of comfortably and even humbly should be shipped to Afghanistan to do missionary works in my views. A true pastor’s obligation should be to the spreading of the word and the well being of his flock. A chain is as strong as its weakest link. No pastor should be happy and kicking back when there are people in his pews struggling to eat. Worse yet there may be some who want to be in the pews but can’t afford to get there. Jesus walked amongst the poor and was not too big that he couldn't wash his own disciples feet(John 13 for those who never heard the story).
However don’t let my mild ramblings discourage any of you. My battle is my own and The Lord and I will discuss that in length when the time comes I pray. If you can afford to pay tithe as your obligation be it wholeheartedly or as a token go right ahead. I’d just rather you help those people in life who need the help.
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Monday, January 30, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
For the Parents
I’m going to spy in my children for their own benefit. In a previous article I spoke of the short comings of some parents and the way they let their children run rampant without proper supervision. Due to the nature of the article many believed that this was a problem isolated to lower income families located in areas we would refer to as the ghetto. I’m here today to point out that incompetent parents reside in any and every socio-economic spheres. Having your child in the house and not knowing what they are doing in the house is equally as bad as not knowing where your children are.
As some of you would know I spent 4 years coaching athletics. In this short time I formed some relationships with some of these athletes and some of the things they have told me leave me in shock and awe. This week one of them revealed to me that she was tired as she headed off to her part time job. The reason for her tiredness was that her boyfriend spent the night with her. We can only assume what activities went on that kept her awake all night. I enquired as to how much things had changed with her mother that her boyfriend was now sleeping over. She let me know that her mother didn’t have any idea that he stayed over. Her mother knew he had visited and assumed he went home after she went to bed. In my world this gentleman would have had to have made his way home before I went to bed. Similarly how can you leave for work the next day without speaking to your child?
This is just one example of negligent parenting in the upper caste. Children these days have rooms equipped with televisions, computers/laptops, iPods and every other electronic convenience available. Whilst they are happily watching television and feeling safe their children are on numerous pornography sites; they’re listening to vulgar lyrics and cursing their new found friends from around the world for bad playing in Call of Duty. The children have recreational drugs stored in their sock drawer right next to the condoms and birth control pills. The parents are unaware of all of these things because a child’s room is their sanctuary. My children will hate me because as long as your room is in my house it falls under my jurisdiction.
I believe that you must trust your children and you must allow them to grow but we all have been children and we all know that we will push the limit as far as we believe we can go before getting caught. Parents are today more concern with being their children’s friend than sometimes taking the necessary villainous route needed to instill discipline. Some of you will be saying that if you raise your child correctly then it won’t do anything that requires you to spy on them. To you I want to ask how many good parents do you know have had their hearts broken due to a child doing something out of curiosity or to fit in with the peers at school? As hard as you work as a parent sometimes outside influences will seek to undermine and undo what you’ve done.
Would you rather have your child be upset with you for a day and safe from unwanted pregnancies, STD, drug abuse and people who would prey on them or be your friend and have all these things be possible? Not saying that your child may not still engage in these things away from your homes but should you leave them unattended at home to further develop and encourage any deviant behavior?
As some of you would know I spent 4 years coaching athletics. In this short time I formed some relationships with some of these athletes and some of the things they have told me leave me in shock and awe. This week one of them revealed to me that she was tired as she headed off to her part time job. The reason for her tiredness was that her boyfriend spent the night with her. We can only assume what activities went on that kept her awake all night. I enquired as to how much things had changed with her mother that her boyfriend was now sleeping over. She let me know that her mother didn’t have any idea that he stayed over. Her mother knew he had visited and assumed he went home after she went to bed. In my world this gentleman would have had to have made his way home before I went to bed. Similarly how can you leave for work the next day without speaking to your child?
This is just one example of negligent parenting in the upper caste. Children these days have rooms equipped with televisions, computers/laptops, iPods and every other electronic convenience available. Whilst they are happily watching television and feeling safe their children are on numerous pornography sites; they’re listening to vulgar lyrics and cursing their new found friends from around the world for bad playing in Call of Duty. The children have recreational drugs stored in their sock drawer right next to the condoms and birth control pills. The parents are unaware of all of these things because a child’s room is their sanctuary. My children will hate me because as long as your room is in my house it falls under my jurisdiction.
I believe that you must trust your children and you must allow them to grow but we all have been children and we all know that we will push the limit as far as we believe we can go before getting caught. Parents are today more concern with being their children’s friend than sometimes taking the necessary villainous route needed to instill discipline. Some of you will be saying that if you raise your child correctly then it won’t do anything that requires you to spy on them. To you I want to ask how many good parents do you know have had their hearts broken due to a child doing something out of curiosity or to fit in with the peers at school? As hard as you work as a parent sometimes outside influences will seek to undermine and undo what you’ve done.
Would you rather have your child be upset with you for a day and safe from unwanted pregnancies, STD, drug abuse and people who would prey on them or be your friend and have all these things be possible? Not saying that your child may not still engage in these things away from your homes but should you leave them unattended at home to further develop and encourage any deviant behavior?
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