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The House

October 29, 2010 in Comic strip, webcomic with 0 Comments

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Eric loves to talk about ‘the house‘. In fact, everything needs to somehow be about ‘the house‘ yes, ‘the house‘ is where it all happens. John doesn’t really understand what Eric means; does he mean Johns house? Or does he mean Eric’s house? No, no, no… He means the church building, and not just the building, but the building during the time they run their one hour religious service.

But John’s question is about what really is ‘the house of God’? Sure it was the temple in the Old Covenant, but isn’t it now the people of God in the new covenant? Isn’t it more about the people, and not about the event, or the place?

Religious Services

October 25, 2010 in Comic strip, webcomic with 1 Comment

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Pastor Moses doesn’t really have a problem with John’s current thoughts about church life, and how it seems more new covenant to be somehow more organic/relational as a community, rather than a planned and structured organisation with religious service based events.

He can even admit that the way they are ‘running’ church seems to copy, so a certain extent, a lot of the patterns of the old covenant temple/synagogue model. But he has also realised that religious services make life easy when it comes to collecting money/donations, as people seem to just click into the religious mindset and see it as somewhat normal.

However, trying to collect money/donations, week after week, in a more natural, relational setting is just plain weird; and with no offerings coming in that means no full-time pastoral staff, and that’s, at the heart of the matter, is the biggest problem Pastor Moses could ever imagine.

The Blame Game

September 27, 2010 in Comic strip, webcomic with 7 Comments

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Pastor Moses has an easy way of solving every problem that arises, and that is to simply put the blame on the person who is raising the issue. It doesn’t matter what it is, whether it’s to do with his leadership, or vision, or dodgy theology, or even when he can’t remember his own wife’s name… it’s just simply never his fault…. hmmm

Church Titles

August 9, 2010 in Comic strip, webcomic with 9 Comments

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John is somewhat confused as to why he would need someone to ‘pastor’ him to worship; in fact he’s not even really sure what that even means… it turns out that neither does Peggy.

Well, she may not actually know what it means, but she seems to be very sure of what her official title is: Worship Pastor.

Spiritual Cutlery

July 28, 2010 in Comic strip, webcomic with 2 Comments

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John is excited to know that Jesus is his food, ‘the bread from heaven’ that gives him life and fills him with love and grace. Pastor Moses seems to be more interested in his special calling to be the spiritual cutlery in the whole process; and he is the only one with the holy calling to feed people…. hmmm, John can’t help but wonder if he really needs a spoon before he can freely eat the bread from heaven.

(Spiritually) Spoon-Fed

July 26, 2010 in Comic strip, webcomic with 3 Comments

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Eric feels that being spiritually spoon-fed once a week is actually something to boast about. Obviously young Bobby has not yet learnt that Pastor Moses is the only one who can feed those who are a part of his church. The unspoken rule is that he, and he alone, has the spoon, and they must come to him every Sunday starving to receive their weekly rations of God’s word.

I wonder if Eric will ever realise he doesn’t need to be spoon-fed from his Pastor, but that the Spirit desires to let him eat from God’s grace everyday, all day.

Works

July 7, 2010 in Comic strip, webcomic with 6 Comments

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Eric loves to pull out the same scripture again and again to try to prove that John’s confidence in the finished work of Jesus by faith is not actually enough – the only problem is Eric doesn’t seem to know just how many works are considered enough to make his faith live, and because of that he ends up filling his whole life up with the pursuit of good works – but what about your faith Eric?

If faith without works is dead, then we better listen to how Jesus described the work of God we are to do: Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” John 6:29

Follow Him

July 2, 2010 in Comic strip, webcomic with 0 Comments

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Eric genuinely doesn’t seem to realise that he spends about 90% of his time telling people how amazing his pastor is, and it seems that when he does talk about Jesus it is only to highlight, in some way or another, another amazing aspect of Pastor Moses and his ever expanding vision. John, as usual, is sadly unimpressed.

It Is Written (where?)

June 18, 2010 in Comic strip, webcomic with 2 Comments

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John is somewhat concerned that Pastor Moses is leading the whole community to build something that God never asked his people to build in the first place; at least it doesn’t seem to be written anywhere in the Bible. In fact, Pastor Moses seems to be coping the pattern of the local Synagogues to justify building a local church institution; with it’s own building, staff, programs and religious services. But, as John tried to highlight to his pastor,  there doesn’t seem to be any place in the Bible where it was written to those under the Old Covenant to build local religious institutions either?

Perhaps God never asked, and it was never written in the Bible for anyone to do so, because God never intended for local religious institutions to be built in his name in the first place?

John isn’t sure, but he thinks it is worth an open and honest conversation with his pastor, and his other brothers and sisters in Christ, at the very least.

The Hedge

May 5, 2010 in Comic strip, webcomic with 5 Comments

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John is getting tired of hearing all these fine sounding prayers that are filled with Christianese. Eric on the other hand loves Christianese, it makes him sound so spiritual when he uses it.

The definition of a hedge: a row of bushes or small trees planted close together, esp. when forming a fence or boundary

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