Reverence (1)

Irreverence increases with attending Sunday services.

The Pastor who presided over the service thanked the LORD for dying on the cross.
Don Carson would have a heart attack.
I was turned off.
Shouldn’t a pastor be more careful in speaking of the Persons in the Trinity, that the Son, died on the Cross, not the Father? I would have accepted the use of the Lord dying on the Cross, for Paul would have said: One God and One Lord (1 Cor 8:6).

The young female speaker, not that she was unique, spoke as if the Law automatically applied to non-Israelites. There appeared to have been no biblical and theological exercise to take the congregation from what had been given on Mount Sinai, to them who were facing the monitor. She just assumed there is no topography between the worlds. I was turned off.

Then to rub salt into wound, she went on to appeal, with emotions I grant, that the mention of “love” would absolve all those facing the monitor, to struggle to wrestle intellectually with what the passage said. “Love” disarms all thinking and exegetical work. I was turned off.

Two pastors, one presiding officer and another speaker, in one service, helped to jack up my irreverence.
They are not unique.
God knows how many of them are in display in HK on every Sunday.
How could those occupying such weighty responsibilities treat it so lightly?
Who in the church decide to put them there?
What seminary trained them?

Would that they were mute!
If they are not gifted, or are unwilling to put in hard work, let the leadership assign them to other roles, not to ones that contribute to my, and I imagine many watching on the monitor, irreverence.

It is already hard to learn reverence by doing worship at home on-line.