thejikz#randomchurch Representing in minecraft!
@maxleibman #randomchurch approves this query. LOL
@violenteastcoastcity I feel like #randomchurch needs more of this in its random tradition. :D
@Cassandra I am attempting to build digital resiliancy in my home and neighborhood. I am learning about self hosting, self clouding, etc, and keeping my immidiate fam and friends informed of infosec issues that affect them, but in as digestible ways as possible.
I also started #randomchurch out of a frustration of a lack of accepting churches in general. It is small, young, and random, but I hope that helped who it needed to.
I am in positions to help open some eyes of those caught in the middle ground of old conservative culture, and have seen some make important questions about heated topics.
I also am burned the hell out, but the hope fuels me.
Things can be bad, and people still can be good, and I do see a lot of good happening still. :D
I also started #randomchurch out of a frustration of a lack of accepting churches in general. It is small, young, and random, but I hope that helped who it needed to.
I am in positions to help open some eyes of those caught in the middle ground of old conservative culture, and have seen some make important questions about heated topics.
I also am burned the hell out, but the hope fuels me.
Things can be bad, and people still can be good, and I do see a lot of good happening still. :D
To be clear, I am not personally anti-church (or I would not be attempting to build one?), they exist often out of the need I am seeing and trying to fill, I think they just get way off track. My old church was corporatized in front of my families eyes. They had several iterations of presbyterian reform, then the church itself became obsessed with paying customers and businessizing the whole damned thing. I was always leary of a membership that...get this...required a tithe. Like really? Are we in the old testament and all rich wealthy landowners? Dude. Free. Will. Offering.
"But how can the church plan and blah blah... " -- Fucking have Faith!!!
If the money comes in, then do stuff with it!
Take away the stupid layers of tax structures and retirement funds and shareholders. Sickening. Fleecing your flock to pump up the vanity is table flipping garbage.
To that point, I get having, owning, and operating a building. I love that churches have enough to do that, but not at the expense of the people doggedly running them, getting maybe paid, maybe not, and guilted into "keep going for the lord..." That is wrong and wrong.
#randomchurch has no finances. No sign ups. No real records, in fact the entire liturgical history is like 7 days old. LOL
Where the heck did 7 days go?!
I feel like it has been 2 weeks in my head since #randomchurch was born.
Could be that I, in my unemoloyment, have found gainful work locally, and have unlocked hyperfocus mode again since quitting substances. I feel like I have "been awake more", because I haven't been in any haze or whatever.
Geeze this is loaded! I am at one month full sober. Zero perscriptions even. Like, I accidentally almost went "straight edge". LOL (exmos may understand that one)
I think #randomchurch is a decent place for ex anythings. I am essentially ex-evangelical? ex-prospergospel? ex-conservative-white-jesus? ex-supply-side-jesus?
Sometimes people need a place to vent on "the church", it can sound negative, it can go negative, but it can also be healing to let that garbage out if you've been hurt.
Hurt is hurt is hurt!! Jesus would have, and did, hold up those in that place when "the church" would have (and did) discarded them.
Cheers All!
Explaining how I just decided to make my own church:
I don't care what color you are, what size you are, who you bonk, what you eat, what drugs you take, or if you don't beleive in Jesus or God, #randomchurch still welcomes you to partake in the humanity experience of presence of love and offering of confession of what is trou ling you. I say in the name of Jesus, or if you dont, then not. But how could I exclude anyone who wants more or different than this world has?
Jesus said "follow me". He didn't start with rules and regulations and schedules.
That is my basis of design, my standard to start, because it is what I know, and what has been most successful for my own mental health.
I spoke these approximate words to my Dad yesterday. There was power in that alone, I love him, though we are distant. He was into it, though he attends a Lutheran church, my grammas church, she is gone. He liked that I didn't need a structure, and we chatted about how he is "the coffee guy" and has been doing it for 3 years almost solid, without fail, every Sunday. Because HE WANTS TO!! That was beautiful to me, he found a spot, and is keeping it, and is still serving his community. Nothing bad about that in my view, we just will serve in different capacities.
FTR- We have never, in my 40+ years, EVER spoken more than 2 or 3 sentances about our own relationships with God or the church.
Cheers!
You may need some heavy bangers that rings hard about the current world. May I humbly recommend:
The World is a Thorn
by
Demon Hunter
Get that righteous anger out!!!
#randomchurch has an email now.
possibly working on a web presence, had to start somewhere. :D