{"id":238,"date":"2005-09-03T15:36:52","date_gmt":"2005-09-03T22:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/2005-09\/03\/pew-reservations\/"},"modified":"2005-09-03T15:36:52","modified_gmt":"2005-09-03T22:36:52","slug":"pew-reservations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/culture\/pew-reservations\/","title":{"rendered":"Pew Reservations & Other Church Satire"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know where I’m picking!<\/p>\n

\n\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
City \/ State<\/font><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Church Name<\/font><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Reserve
\n Parking <\/font><\/strong><\/td>\n		\n Close to sanctuary
\n Close to exit\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Reserve Pew<\/font><\/strong><\/td>\n\n Front Right
\n Front Left
\n Middle Right
\n Middle Left
\n Back Row Right
\n Back Row Left
\n Balcony
\n Next to
\n sound board\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Seating
\n Preference <\/font><\/strong><\/td>\n		\n Aisle
\n Away
\n from hand-raisers
\n Away
\n from loud singers
\n Away
\n from small children
\n Anywhere
\n but near my mother-in-law\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table><\/form>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You got to love this church humor from Lark<\/a>. (saw this at Radical Congruency<\/a>)
\nThis one is also classic:
\n
\nJabez book devastates China house churches<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

BEIJING \u0082\u00c4\u00ee The Prayer of Jabez by Bruce Wilkinson, one of the best-selling non-fiction books in the past ten years, has gutted China’s house church movement, say observers.
\n “Chinese Christians used to sacrifice everything for Christ. Now they only want God to bless them,” says one Chinese elder who has served five prison terms for planting churches. He and others say China’s Christians have “grown soft with navel-gazing” and have lost their tolerance for persecution.
\n Copies of The Prayer of Jabez began circulating in China in 2001. Many Christians began “talking endlessly about God expanding their borders and keeping them free from pain,” says one Chinese pastor whose weekly prayer meeting shrunk to half its previous size.
\n “Instead of asking God to strengthen the Chinese church they pray for personal fulfillment. They ignore all the Bible except Jabez,” he says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I know where I’m picking! City \/ State Church Name Reserve Parking Close to sanctuary Close to exit Reserve Pew Front Right Front Left Middle Right Middle Left Back Row Right Back Row Left Balcony Next to sound board Seating Preference Aisle Away from hand-raisers Away from loud singers Away from small children Anywhere but near my mother-in-law You got to love this church humor from Lark. (saw this at Radical Congruency) This one is also classic: Jabez book devastates China house churches BEIJING \u0082\u00c4\u00ee The Prayer of Jabez by Bruce Wilkinson, one of the best-selling non-fiction books in the past ten years, has gutted China’s house church movement, say observers. “Chinese Christians used to sacrifice everything for Christ. Now they only want God to bless them,” says one Chinese elder who has served five prison terms for planting churches. He and others say China’s Christians have “grown soft with navel-gazing” and have lost their tolerance for persecution. Copies of The Prayer of Jabez began circulating in China in 2001. Many Christians began “talking endlessly about God expanding their borders and keeping them free from pain,” says one Chinese pastor whose weekly prayer meeting shrunk to half its previous size….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodmanson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}