LATEST WRITINGS FROM PASTOR PHILIP HOPPE

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Red with lace, in the closet with others, popeye.

Bra colors.  Purse Placement.  Cartoon characters.  Will it ever end?  Only my generation and the ones that followed it could actually think such acts are laudable.  While you are at it, go to the site that plants a tree for every click and the one that decides to feed a starving child because you liked it on facebook.  Are you serious?  These things mean nothing.  And yet, if you want to do them, have at it.  You accomplish nothing, but you may have a little fun.  I certainly don’t want to be the spoilsport.

But when it comes to the faith, don’t kid yourself.  Nothing happens when you click like on “I love Jesus” or becomes part of the “127,00 trying to find 873,000” more to prove facebook is a Jesus friendly land.  If God wants you to know something, he will not do it through the facebook app of that name.  Oh sure, technology can be used for kingdom purposes, but none of these things are it.  If you stay home when God is giving out his gifts in your local congregation and start a new group called “I don’t need church, but I do need God”  you have done nothing worthy of praise.

Oh again, I suppose there is nothing wrong with most of these things inherently.    But if they are the extent of your faith, there is trouble indeed.  The Christian life is about the gathering of God’s people around his gifts and the scattering of them to live the new life he gives.  “Facebook faith” will not do.

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