Tim Challies gives astute commentary on one of my favorite episodes of King of the Hill.
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Dude, in that I am single-handedly keeping your blog afloat in comments, I shall comment on the Challies article in a roundabout way: Two sundays ago my family went to Covenant Presbyterian Church (PCA) here in St. Louis. It was traditional, reverent, excellent teaching from Scripture, hymns, and cold, cold people who love God (presumably...I really believe that they do). This past Sunday we went to Green Tree Church also in STL (EPC) and the music was pretty poor and contemporary (Shout to the LOrd rather than Blessed Assurance), excellent teaching, and slightly warmer people who love God (again presumably...). My guess is that Covenant has little patience for a Pastor K (with bleach blond hair, ear-ring, tat, and Pillar and Keith Green and James Blunt sharing cd space in his Scion) whereas Green Tree probably has a fellow with a few of those characteristics. In both cases, whoever the youth pastor is will encourage the children of that specific flock, will probably screw up, will appropriately and scripturally answer tough questions, will inadequately answer tough questions, will build great relationships with the kids, and then watch them go to the Sr. High Group or the College Connection Group (you could maybe do a post on ridiculous names for age-specific groups in a church...that might be interesting). However in both cases the biggest issues are these, IMHO: (1) is the Word of God being taught, and (2)what in the puke are the parents doing? I get the sense that whoever the youth pastor is, if the parents are not involved with their kids, Bobby or Betty could be just another emo-goth-ecstacy freak who happens to enjoy the proverbial "Jesus Fix" (ZN term) for a short time in their life. Granted, my kids are 5,4, and 2, and so I speak not from experience, only hopes and fears (Keane term). My guess is that if Pastor K wasn't a cartoon, I would really like him. On the other hand, if Hank wasn't a cartoon, I would think he is a goof-ball. He drinks Natural Light for goodness sake! A good ol' East Texas boy needs to be drinking Dixie Beer at the very least. On an almost completely unrelated front, is the voice for Hank the same as for Mr. Anderson on Beavis & Butthead? For those of you under the age of 20, that was a very popular cartoon on MTV in the early to mid 90's. Thank you for taking to the time to read this. In looking back I don't think I said much. I feel like poor Erasmus must have felt.
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Dude, in that I am single-handedly keeping your blog afloat in comments, I shall comment on the Challies article in a roundabout way:
Two sundays ago my family went to Covenant Presbyterian Church (PCA) here in St. Louis. It was traditional, reverent, excellent teaching from Scripture, hymns, and cold, cold people who love God (presumably...I really believe that they do). This past Sunday we went to Green Tree Church also in STL (EPC) and the music was pretty poor and contemporary (Shout to the LOrd rather than Blessed Assurance), excellent teaching, and slightly warmer people who love God (again presumably...). My guess is that Covenant has little patience for a Pastor K (with bleach blond hair, ear-ring, tat, and Pillar and Keith Green and James Blunt sharing cd space in his Scion) whereas Green Tree probably has a fellow with a few of those characteristics. In both cases, whoever the youth pastor is will encourage the children of that specific flock, will probably screw up, will appropriately and scripturally answer tough questions, will inadequately answer tough questions, will build great relationships with the kids, and then watch them go to the Sr. High Group or the College Connection Group (you could maybe do a post on ridiculous names for age-specific groups in a church...that might be interesting). However in both cases the biggest issues are these, IMHO: (1) is the Word of God being taught, and (2)what in the puke are the parents doing? I get the sense that whoever the youth pastor is, if the parents are not involved with their kids, Bobby or Betty could be just another emo-goth-ecstacy freak who happens to enjoy the proverbial "Jesus Fix" (ZN term) for a short time in their life. Granted, my kids are 5,4, and 2, and so I speak not from experience, only hopes and fears (Keane term).
My guess is that if Pastor K wasn't a cartoon, I would really like him. On the other hand, if Hank wasn't a cartoon, I would think he is a goof-ball. He drinks Natural Light for goodness sake! A good ol' East Texas boy needs to be drinking Dixie Beer at the very least.
On an almost completely unrelated front, is the voice for Hank the same as for Mr. Anderson on Beavis & Butthead? For those of you under the age of 20, that was a very popular cartoon on MTV in the early to mid 90's.
Thank you for taking to the time to read this. In looking back I don't think I said much. I feel like poor Erasmus must have felt.
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