PPs (Pet Peeves) are things that just bug the stuffings out of you, whether or not it makes sense.
I have them, you have them, everybody got 'em.
One of my faves is buffets. Lots of choices and cooked by someone else. I eat a lot of raw vegetables, then cooked veg, then meat, and then whatever I want. Yes. I have a buffet system.
One of my biggest PPs is...buffets. Lots of food, set out in the open, with about two dozen people I don't even know, cruising through it before I do. Grimy little kid paws touching everything they can reach. Sneeze guards? Don't kid me. I teach food safety.
Bigger PP? People who cry over a tiny hair that fell on their plate in a "nice" place and need therapy and compensation, but eat at buffets.
Fave: Getting to cook for someone.
PP: Totally screwing up a family dinner with a recipe or technique that you have used for years!
Bigger PP: Knowing the people whom you upset over it will carry a grudge.
Fave: Dog owners that train their animals to behave around others.
PP: Dog owners who train their dogs to be entertainment centers, or children, or anything else dogs aren't supposed to be.
Bigger: Dog owners that get attacked by their own dogs for pushing too far, and wondering what happened. Dogs are dogs, stupid.
Fave: ADOPTION. What else is there to say on that? Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful forever families.
PP: People who give purchasing a PET the same language as adopting a CHILD. Pet Smart, which gags me, is using the words "potty training" in their newest ads. Good heavens.
Bigger PP: Animal Parents Without Partners. (Do I have to explain why this grits me?)
Fave: Being with Christian brothers and sisters. In worship, in playtime, for better or worse.
PP: Traditionalists. Folks who say they are Christians, but rely on church traditions. (stuff made up by people, like Pharisees.)
Bigger PP: Trads that refuse to change because "That's the way we've always taught it".
Biggest PP: Church leaders who cannot, for the life of them, understand why people are leaving the church.
I'll bet I have tried a hundred times to discuss this with leadership and anyone else I thought cared.
If you want to put a dress code in your beliefs, fine and dandy. But don't teach it as scripture.
If you want to forbid tattoos on your staff, go right ahead. But, don't back it up as sin.
If you want to discipline a member because they will not be obedient to your leadership, get your three and get on with it. But if it's not scriptural, you're in deep water, buddy.
We tend to join forces with a church body that feels good. There are people there that believe the same things we do, they quote the same scriptures, they read the same books. We all rave about the same superstars and have been to their conferences and lectures.
That does not make us right.
Pastor ? gave a message that government and God are two separate things, referencing Luke 20:25.
Can you tell me why this should even be a topic?
Don't get me wrong. I'm glad he addressed this, because it's a burr under my saddle too.
But why the heck is even needed? What on earth have we been teaching through the generations that we would even come close to mistaking the truth?
Fave: Music in church that gives praise and honor to the One we are adoring.
PP: Music in church that talks about how I feel.
Bigger PP: Patriotic music in church during worship time.
Biggest PP: People that don't understand why nothing belongs in worship except...worship.
Any way, I'm done ranting.
shalom
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