Churchy Opportunities
The golden state has been a bit rain prone the last few weeks. The good news is this weekend we finally saw a foretaste of spring and summer and sunny weather. The bad news is I spent most of the weekend inside for meetings and other administrative churchy opportunities.
We arrived home last night in time to catch a documentary on Jonestown. I’m sure it was simply a coincidence to spend an entire weekend in administrative churchy opportunities and end with watching a documentary on Jonestown.
I don’t remember much of the actual coverage at the time. I just remember a few pictures of the bodies stacked on top of each other. I watched the documentary last night and found myself becoming sad and angry.
We know that Jonestown wasn’t the first expression of religious radicalism and we know it certainly wasn’t the last. It did remind me of how much baggage we inherit, as a community of faith, because of the lunacy of others.
3 Responses to “Churchy Opportunities”
I remember the coverage well. I remember the feelings of outrage and an oppressive, appalling disbelief and sadness. I was flipping channels last night after Deal or No Deal went off (it’s mindless so I enjoy it) and saw the docoumentary. Couldn’t watch it.
Like many who end up in the news as lunatics, at the front end of his ministry, Jim Jones was pretty impressive … so I hear. But one of our deacons grew up in Hitler’s Germany and said Adolph was pretty impressive in the beginning as well. The sad thing is so many people view all of Christianity through the lenses of Jonestown. To them we are all lunatics.
That’s where our problems begin . . . viewing the world through human lenses rather than through Jesus!Baggage is tough to cut loose though. I saw a made for TV movie on Jim Jones and it was very scary!Peace.
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