Churchbook

By Roidy Warnokle

Booklet meant to provoke Christians and churches to take a hard and honest look at what they claim to believe as opposed to what they practice. Encourages churches to realize why young people are leaving or declining to join church.

• Language: English
• Publisher: RW
• Release date: Feb 6, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224247578

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Churchbook

Roidy Warnokle

Copyright ©2024 Roidy Warnokle

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Preface

I consider myself a Christian, but nowhere remotely perfect. I'd like to be very much, unfortunately, I lack a perfect credential. Just like probably everybody, I suppose. I have in my years, visited and discoursed with other religious groups, including non-Christians. I enjoyed and still enjoy doing that. Mainly because I enjoy learning about belief creeds and such. I dislike closed minds, they tend to be rigid and incapable of learning even old things, let alone new things. This is why I wrote this little booklet.

I want people, Christians specifically to look at themselves individually collectively. Foremost, for them to discover if they actually believe what they claim to believe. Secondly, to confront themselves as to whether they practice their beliefs overtly. I want churches to realize what it really means when they don't literally practice their Christian beliefs.

I achieve the above, I broke what might be a cardinal rule. I include bible citations without providing the chapter and verse. My intent is to press home the idea that if you're a Bible reader, prove it. You should know your Bible well enough know what it says, and where to find the sayings. That they key to this, it to read it in context instead of random segments. After all, when you books like, say, The Scarlet Letter, or The Old Man and The Sea, you don't break it into sentences, or paragraphs. Otherwise, the story is out of context. You end up a jagged and contorted idea of what the book is says. Come to think of it, Jesus didn't quote chapters and verses either. He simply said, it is written that..... Similarly, you could say, 'Hawthorne wrote that Pearl's reply to her mother was,' Yes, mother, said the child. It is the great letter A. Thou hast taught it me in the horn-book. An ulterior motive is to provoke Christian readers to open their Bibles, and read the citations in greater detail. Mayhaps, read the entire book, epistle, or chapter so context isn't lost. As a consequence, a self-serving interpretation isn't employed. Jesus way of citing the scripture appeals to me. He stated what was written, and left it at that. So there was no fooling around with twisting its meaning into something that might or might not be applicable. Further, it matched the situation precisely.

Finally, in our day and age, we're seeing people, especially young