Guest Commentary & Opinion by Monomakh
They didn’t have the balls to tell him to his face so instead they sent him a nice little letter!! Cowards and that would be with a capital “C”.
Dylan Settles got a letter in the mail recently from his church. He hadn’t been to church in awhile so he assumed it was one of those “We Miss You” letters inviting him back to church. But, when Dylan opened then letter he got a SURPRISE! Seems the powers that be who run the church just couldn’t muster up enough courage to tell the young Dylan to his face that he’d been KICKED OUT so they chose the chicken-shit way and sent him a letter. Hmmm wonder if that is what JESUS would do???? Just askin’………….
So why did the Woods Chapel General Baptist Church give Dylan the boot? Because Dylan happens to be GAY!!
The letter let Dylan know that his membership in the church had been revoked because of his “sinful lifestyle.” The letter informed him that the church had become aware of his homosexual lifestyle because Dylan had made it known around town. The letter says, “As a Christian we must choose to serve and obey…..in order to remain a member in good standing of the Church body.” Serve and Obey? Who? God OR the CHURCH? I suspect it is the later, sadly.
Of course, there was the typical line about how the board did this with “great sorrow” which is likely an absolute line of pure bullshit. Sorry but some to the most greedy, backstabbing, nastiest, vengeful people I’ve met in life had called themselves “Christian.” And then, of course, there is the call for Dylan to REPENT! If you asked me the Church ought to be the one REPENTING!!
Dylan posted the letter on his Facebook for all to see and asking it be shared and, frankly, it ought to go VIRAL!! This letter is just one more DISGUSTING act by the Christian Church that seems far more full of HATE, RACISM, AND PREJUDICE than ANYTHING taught by Jesus Christ period!!
Let me guess….it’s that old line of BULLSHIT that I hear a lot of Christians spouting now days. It goes something like this….”Hate the sin but not the sinner…..”. But, in fact, the actions and behaviors displayed by these people (ie” Church-goers) seems NOT to reflect that at all. In fact, the way they treat the “sinner” is more like “Hate the sin AND hate the SINNER.”
Church membership and Christianity in general is in a state of decline. Hell the Christians today seem content with the wholesale slaughter of Christians in the Middle East by ISIS and other terror groups as they express no outrage whatsoever that I’ve heard. I’ve often wondered as a Christian how one can just set by and watch all that murder happen without beeping a word. Well, I guess those dead Christians in the Middle East will get their reward in Heaven or some crap, no?
Here’s something else I’ve thought of. Everybody likes to point to the psychotic Muslim fundamentalists such as the radical Ayatollahs ruling Iran but I’m 100% certain that if Christians could take absolute power in the USA they’d form a theocracy that would make the radical religious regime in Iran look tame! I’m sure in no time we’d see trial by ordeal again, witch hunts, burning at the stake, and something akin to the SPANISH INQUISITIONS born again!!
I frankly find the behavior of the Arkansas Baptist Church APPALLING! Maybe they ought to do some deep thinking and actual BIBLE study and consider why so many people are leaving the Christian church in America or want NOTHING to do with it at all. It’s not because of God, Jesus, or the Virgin Marry. IT’S THE HYPOCRITES RUNNING THE CHURCH AND FILLING THE CHURCHES TODAY!
Also, perhaps they’ll consider that Jesus himself ran with a “questionable” pack of dudes! Let’s see…one was a tax collector and in his days they were considered scum of the earth. Another was an alleged Lady of the Evening, allegedly. And some of the others were questionable characters as well. But Jesus didn’t turn any of them away! Instead he was kind to them, taught them, and LOVED them. And isn’t a Christian suppose to be following the example set forth by Jesus as found in the Gospels? They sure are and the problem today is many AREN’T! And don’t even get me started on the money thing or the ridiculous tax exemptions churches get.
So Dylan is out do to his being gay and the church seems content with ousting him. And that’s pretty sad in my opinion. But, frankly, I think Dylan is better off and his ouster just might be a blessing in disguise as now he must might find GOD….the REAL God….the GOD WHO IS LOVE which, frankly, I don’t think he or anyone else finds today in our greed ridden, over-controlling churches.
Oh one last thing. I don’t suppose anyone of that Church board considered how such a letter and action might make Dylan feel did they? Of course not, I didn’t think so.
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