4-24-2011 Maranatha Baptist

Easter Special!!!

Pastor: Gary Roten

Beginning this Lovely Easter Sunday With The Fammmm

Started it off with a Church Breakfast of Biscuits & Gravy, Bacon and frozen fruit, yum! lol

This church has a very accepting vibe, although it could have just been that this is my father's church, so they knew this crazy already.

Some Fam!

The Sermon was titled " Parable Of The used Staples"

He Was Saying how when he worked at the railroad and he had come to the decision of collecting and saving the staples he took out of the paper-work and putting them in a can to save, and here thirty some years later he has made this out of them.

He Was Stating how we are like used staples, feeling clump't and lame and when we are constructive and ready we can be made into something gorggeeous. I Liked it, very catchy and not pushy at all.

and although curiosity is encouraged, blowing bubbles and taking pictures is not <3 lol

( My Beautiful Father)

Gary Roten; September 22nd 1952

Interview:

1) When did you decide to go into ministry and what made you make that decision?

"It was in 1976 I was sitting and studying the bible, having my notebook beside me and without conscious awareness I Wrote down a message that was from the Lord. I Had written " I Call to you to preach, and teach these words" and I have ever since"

2) How do you feel about Psychics, or familiars. Such as indigo Children?

"I Believe they are not of God. Simplistic view, either from him or not."

3)Have You Studied Other Religions Such As Zen, Wicca, or Buddhism?

"I Have A knowledge of them, not studied though because the Bible, is the real deal"

4)How do you feel about the claims of the world ending in 2012?

Told me to look up Matthew 24 and this is an excerpt:

⁴ Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you. ⁵ For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many. ⁶ You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. ⁷ Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. ⁸ All these are the beginning of birth pains.

"²⁹ “Immediately after the distress of those days

“‘the sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give its light;
the stars will fall from the sky,
and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’^[b]

³⁰ “Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth^[c] will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory.^{[d] 31} And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other."

INTENSE! lol cuutie

5) How Do You Feel about Homosexuality???

" I Believe it is not right,If they come into this church I Will treat them with respect; but I feel it is not right."

Then he went on to compare being homosexual to being a drug addict. N00b!

Conclusion: Out-reach

Journey church: Sunday, April Tenth, two thousand and eleven

The Loveliness Of This Place;

Pastor: Mark ( Last name?)

We Began The Service At 10:10am

Quit Stoned and verrryyy excited for another week of introspect.

The energy was very energetic and accepting, more new age than last experienced, here was felt a mixture of humble and complete need to connect..


Our Beloved Pastor Mark Is A cancer (july 13th)

His Psychic abilities on point and feeling the energy that is unsure and curious.

Still having my beloved companions with me still questioning the point of this all, I cancelled that out and opened to my heart to the energy and quitt bubble effect of these cuties.

The Sermon was about Jonah, and how he was told to do one thing by god and went about running. " We Are All Like Jonah"

His Enthusiasm was quit inspiring you might say.

The Sermon was a quick one

( Mostly because I was just eager to interview him)

On How "We Are Prefect The Way We Are, and our Daddy (fathergod) is waiting for us to surrender our needs to him. "

After I Went Up To Him And Was Told I Had To Wait, Something I Am Quittt Used To ;]

As I Was Waiting My Impatience began to grow so I Walked myself up onto the stage and started creeping through his bible, he takes mass notes*

Mostly On Marriage, So I decided To Slip Him A note Of my own

" Never take Work Home" hehe

Interview Started:

-What Is Your Set Branch Of Religion?

" Christian"

- How do you feel about these "new age" religions such as Wicca, Zen Or Druid?

" You have to be careful because your mind is a super computer, you are typing the keys and invoking some of these is allowing someone else to type of the keyboard"

*cutie*

What age Did You Decide To Go Into Ministry??

" At 16 I was "saved" but the decision to go into ministry was in college"

How Do You feel about Homosexuality??? ( I had a slight feeling that there was either a bit of acceptance of a bit of homosexuality in himself, but when asked he looked away quit hastily, proceeded to look at his children then turned to me)

" Homosexuality is not in gods best interest for you"

*this is where it went downhill*

So I Ask;

If someone who was homosexual came into your church and wanted to be accepted as is, would you allow it or would you alienate them?

" I will Allow it but I will also tell them that it is not in gods best interest"

Well have You Ever experimented with a male?

" No"

Then What gives you room to say what is right and not if you have never even tried to acknowledge feelings for another male???

" How can You Say murder is wrong if you've never murdered anyone?"

Did this fool really compare a genetic make-up to murder??

Some people deserve to die I say. lol

The argument went on and on untill I decided to shake his hand, thank him and walk out.

to say the least I felt farrr more accepted in this church

Verdict: Out-Reach

*While waiting for him we did some snooping, and went into the childrens room, whattt cutiessss!*

Lets seee, all the time spent "wasted" can I even call it a waste? I cannot......

All this time spenttttt,

unkept

unfilltered territory
I will often feel silly for thinking this way.......

Wahwah!!!


The whole point is to realize that nothing is in your hands.

Light Of The World Christian CenterMarch 27th 2011

'"TO BE SALT AND LIGHT IN THE WORLD"

WELL WELL WELL,

this marks the first visit, and lettttt me tell you. The Most................ hmmm Interesting

(Chelsea Lookin As Foxy As evvver)

The church is a beaaautiful probably multi-million dollar building with glorious pillars and even farther glorious band. The Wholllee nine yards.

But! What got me was the amount of wealth seemed to be a large deciding factor,

There was Said " I don't care about what goes on in the world around me, My god will supply ME" - Debra V.

" What We Ask from god, we deserve, It Is Our Inheritance"- Debra v.

now IDK BOUT Y'ALLL But This sounds like PURE arrogance.

umm if your god wants to give you shit he will, obviously you got this far by the offerings from your church.

When The question was raised "Who here is here for the first time"

only the three of us raised our hands lol, we were handed pamplets and then proceeded to be guilted because " Thooose who are savedd, have the sin washedd away" " But those who are not of godd are wicked'

"humans are the crowning species, animals have no souls and such things as familiars are of the devil"

AH!!

The Interview With Pastor Greg Varney,

Questions:

What Made you decide To be A Pastor? " I Was Raised In the Church"

Have You Ever Studied Any Other Religions Like Druid, Wicca, Or Zen? " No"

Do You Believe In Psychics? " The bible Condones Them"

Do You Believe animals Have Spirits? " Familiars are of the devil"

Do You Believe In Life On Other Planets? " Could Be"

Then His wife Came up (Debra) And Idk but she seems to be a succubus, lol.

CONCLUSION: Arrogance.

(Edward looking rightfully scared)

In The Beginning....

This Marks the Beginning of experimentation:

The questions are many, the answers few... the acceptance may be even less.

I Have Decided To Conduct A journalism Project; Arrogance Or Out-Reach.

Going From church To church sitting through the sermon and then interviewing The Pastor.

We Shall call it SOCIAL EXPERIMENT: WHAT IS CHURCH?!