Tired of DISNEYLAND CHURCH?

Journal entry March 8, 2001

You can go to California to Disney Land for vacation – The Magic Kingdom where everyone is happy, wearing colorful costumes, and masks. A place of make believe, where dreams come true.

Dogs & cats get along. Mice play with cats. Working girls become ball room beauties. Seven dwarves get along & live in one house. Yeah right. Ever look in at a frat house?

But do we have to live in Disney Land? It’s a nice place to visit, but do I have to live there? It's shallow. It’s hollow. Facades on the buildings, smiles are mandatory. In the real world, when we see a mouse running around – people shriek. Sorry to pop your bubble but Disney Land is fake.

I don’t want to discount Walt Disney’s dream of a happy place to escape. But this is not the real world - can we be real?

Church. Many say “It’s not relevant. It’s for the weak. It’s for the uneducated.” Yet to the thinking people I share my dream with you.

Church – a safe place. Together we can be happy, in good times, and then when life happens, we stand together united to support each other when we fall.

Cotton candy is a nice treat – but you eat an entire kettle full & are you satisfied? More like you have sticky fingers & are sick with a stomach ache. Cotton candy faith – light & fluffy.

John 10:10b
I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

2 Timothy 3:1-5
Those how have the Christ follower label, but don’t access His life changing power.

1 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God-- 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.

If you are tired of cotton candy faith & a Disney Land church experience – Try a real place.

A place where grace is demonstrated
A place where forgiveness can be seen
A place where you belong.
A place where you are accepted.
A place where you are supported when you’re down
A place that parties with you when you have excelled