exminister
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I grew up with a very strong Bible believing grandmother who made sure I went to church every week from a very early age. My parents weren’t church goers at that time so she took it upon herself to get me there and I have many memories of sitting right next to her during the main service. The Bible was very important to her and as a young teen she bought me a red letter white leather version with a zipper to close it. She wrote “Dear one, this book will keep you from sin and sin will keep you from this book. love, Grandma”. It is a special book to me even after all these years.
One correction she made to me a few times is to NEVER put anything on top of a Bible. Not a piece of clothing or another book except another Bible. “Don’t cover the sacred with the profane”. I wonder if anyone else had such parenting. I still honor that today. I sort of cringe otherwise.
Galatians 3:28
John 18:36
1 Peter 1:3-4
Ezekiel 44:23
Of late I have been seeing a lot of Bible believing churches covering crosses with US flags. One church has a big cross in front, the trestle type, and they have attached an open US flag to it so that you barely see the cross. It’s like the cross is a hangar.
I cringe at this each time I see it. Isn’t the cross sacred? It’s importance is eternal. The US flag is the profane in the oldest sense of the word as thought of in 1950s Christianity and before. Anything temporal is profane, that which passes away. If I put a secular book on the Bible it would be the same. I dishonor the cross or the Bible but putting something of lesser value on it.
Does anyone else feel like I do? Has modern Christianity just lost their way and are more into this world rather than the glory of the next? Has the sacred lost its value? Would it be ok drape any countries flag on the cross? Even my favorite sports team?
Was my grandmother just wrong?
One correction she made to me a few times is to NEVER put anything on top of a Bible. Not a piece of clothing or another book except another Bible. “Don’t cover the sacred with the profane”. I wonder if anyone else had such parenting. I still honor that today. I sort of cringe otherwise.
Galatians 3:28
John 18:36
1 Peter 1:3-4
Ezekiel 44:23
Of late I have been seeing a lot of Bible believing churches covering crosses with US flags. One church has a big cross in front, the trestle type, and they have attached an open US flag to it so that you barely see the cross. It’s like the cross is a hangar.
I cringe at this each time I see it. Isn’t the cross sacred? It’s importance is eternal. The US flag is the profane in the oldest sense of the word as thought of in 1950s Christianity and before. Anything temporal is profane, that which passes away. If I put a secular book on the Bible it would be the same. I dishonor the cross or the Bible but putting something of lesser value on it.
Does anyone else feel like I do? Has modern Christianity just lost their way and are more into this world rather than the glory of the next? Has the sacred lost its value? Would it be ok drape any countries flag on the cross? Even my favorite sports team?
Was my grandmother just wrong?