Mr. Preacher and Zombies

Original Entry: November 11, 2012

THE Church is dead, filled with greedy, monstrous zombies. The Living dead - greedy, wanting to fill their own bellies with what pleases them regardless of who or what stands in the way. They will devour whomever they please. They sit, mindlessly and heartlessly, in rows of identical seats. They gage their spirituality on how they feel at the moment. Are their bellies full? Did Mr. Preacher make them feel good, get their dead minds tickled a little? Did Mr. Preacher hit the nail on the head for Ms. Gossip on the third row? Because we all know she really needs to hear it?

HOW can we call this church? I do not believe this is what God intended when He designed the church. Church has become an emotional meat factory for mindless, “spiritual” zombies. They come in, get their fill of preaching and emotional highs, they mindlessly eat the meat prepared for them at church, then go home and feast on rotten flesh and call themselves “alive.” They move listlessly through life. They claim to be spiritual leaders; some are even deacons or elders or youth pastors or missionaries, but they are the walking dead, reeking of the rotten flesh that reaches to their very souls. It is sad to say that the plague of zombies has not been confined to the everyday church-goer. It has spread and rooted itself deeply into our churches. Believers and unbelievers alike should be able to walk into a church and feel the love of God and see the truth of the Gospel, but instead they feel the coldness, the death, the stench of rotting flesh as our church-goers wander the halls avoiding those spiritual conversations that will reveal their dead and rotting souls, as they prey on the visitors with judgement and condemnation. 

WHAT can be done? Something must be done. Either rid the church of the dead and dying, or pray for a church-wide resurrection. I’m not sure, but something must be done because God’s church is dying.  

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