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Selective Hearing
After John spoke with young Bobby (see comic here) and being shocked that he was full on involved in serving and building the church, but doesn’t even know who Jesus is, John felt he needed to meet with his new pastor to share his concerns. But Pastor Moses has a bad case of selective hearing. He only hears, so it seems, things related to building his church services. John would call this ignoring the blatantly obvious, but Pastor Moses calls it positive thinking.
We have a mens ministry at our church, where we are accountable to one another and it has made a massive imprevement on our families and the mariages of the men inside the group. it has taken a couple of years to get to the point where the guys can trust one another with what is said in the group etc. the church now wants to franshise the idea and use the group as their bullhorn… with it comes the expansion of the group that the church requires, and we need to attend church more often for the selling of the group and being visible…we will have to take [our] group out of the church into a home setting[for it to survive]. otherwise it will just dissintegrate by church involvement. going to church to sell and be visible is not my way of helping fellow church go’ers to start thinking outside the box and follow Christ, not the pastor, Christ.
So much of what you comment upon in the comic is sadly so true; even for that ‘perfect’ church. It is sad to see people flocking after pastors who feed their ego and not the church.
One of the things I hope my comic does is help people discuss some of the underlying issues that are not often, or easily, discussed. I also try to push an idea to the extremes to hopefully remove it enough from reality to allow people to laugh about it.
I understand that so many Christians’ hearts are attached to the whole institutional framework of the church, and most of us were also there at some point. So I don’t want to say what is right or wrong about situations, but rather use the comic to bring up issues through the characters and let the reader process the thought themselves and with others who are walking the journey of faith with them.
I hope it is a help to people. There is a tension in the comic; always a fine line between laughter and tears, but I think all art of value draws you into it because it dares to fight the tension we all face in life.
What a fabulous response.
Thanks Annie
Hope you are enjoying the comic too.
Anyone ever witnessed some “selective hearing”?