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[peachycream]

So we had our Christmas play tonight that I had to plan and put on. I don't even have the energy to type out how it got messed up by people changing things, or how the preacher's wife yelled at one of my 18-year-old youth during the program as we were singing because he was being goofy. However, tonight after we ate and people were cleaning, the

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[sir_dave]

How one handles the past of others defines a Pharisee. To the Pharisee, there must exist a class of 'sinners' so that the Pharisee can be defined on not being one of them. The sinner enables the Pharisee to say that he or she is not one of them, and to feel good about themselves not being one; the Pharisee must have someone to despise and condemn.

There are equivalents in political correctness, too, and in the majority modern religion of narcissism.

The problem with being a Pharisee is that every Christian needs to identify as a sinner, and if they can't clearly tell you what they have done wrong in life, then it is hard to see where they ever got to know Jesus.

You now have the model of how not to run a church (and its a bad model for running anything else, as well). Go and don't do likewise ---