Chistians are torn in their acceptable and nonacceptable fiction. There is acceptable C.S, Lewis and somehow Tolkien seems to fit into what can be read. Alas Harry Potter is not so widely loved. That's okay, to me it's similar to men wearing pink shirts, a confident man can wear it. I'm confident enough to read Harry Potter without fear of my soul. Trust me, I've done far worse than my reading. But that's something we won't be sharing......

I've basically resorted to laughing about how strange this church thing is. Screwtape Letters couldn't even come this close, nor Frank Paretti. But the parrallels with Potter..... we have the deacon dementors (dementors suck your soul out, they are run off by happy things), the dark lord who tires to kill Harry (no names here, but those in the know will be able to put one or two names here), the church of course is Hogwarts, where the final battle is fought. I'm not sure who Harry is, but at the end he offers himself as a sacrifice to save his friends.

I'm writing this tongue in cheek with a lot of grins. These people in the church are not evil, they have their beliefs and agenda's, I have mine. I believe that most of them are good people that truly believe what they are doing is correct, I just think that they don't understand the fundamentals of Christianity. The love part, the serving part, the part where you don't lie, the part where you have Christ as head of the church and then, *gasp* let Him run it. Novel idea.

I came home tonight and sat at the piano and played. When we focus on worship, on why God made us, it makes it so much easier to submit to His will and His desires for us. Church is not the battleground and I don't want to fight. Tomorrow I work, I'll serve the people of this city and try to not scream "Jesus ain't here you're stuck with me" when they cry, "help me Jesus, help me" with their stubbed toe. But some days working there is as humbling as anything I've ever done in the church, actually probably more so.