The Undercover Adventist

  Today, many Christians think it is their duty to fight the power, not wear a mask, go to church, and almost have a total disregard for any and all COVID rules. What's the real story? Thankfully, the Undercover Adventist is here to dissect this with logic and The Bible. Let's start with not going to church. The argument here is that we should all demand to go to church! We have the right! We are let in at Walmart and other places, so let's riot and go to church! First of all, believe it or not, going to church is not a necessity. You can have church in your home, as crazy as that sounds. For you and your immediate family. No law says you can't. You can zoom with others. Your church can do Facebook Live. You can record it, put it on youtube or even livestream it. There is no law that says you can't HAVE church. So go and have church. You do not need to be in some special building to have church. How many of you live where it snows? Floods? Have you even been getting...

In much Adventist literature and commentary, one would think that there is only one commandment. The Fourth. We seem to ignore the rest, which is too funny. We chide other denominations of ignoring the fourth, while we ourselves never once mention the fifth. Here's a challenge: Can you even recite, right now without looking, the seventh commandment? Probably not. But oh do you have that fourth one down and loaded for action! We keep talking about keeping the Commandments....when in reality, we don't give lip service to any one of them except the fourth. You think the other ones don't matter? Are you telling....no, not telling...PREACHING to your kids to obey you? Honor you? When is the last time you heard a sermon on honoring your fathers and mothers? Never. In fact, we look the other way at society belittling parents. We have movies, TV, the internet, just telling kids to disobey their parents. And we don't say a word. And that seventh one? Commi...

Many pastors, ministers, and preachers seem to be long-winded. Even to the point of bragging about it. And congregations are, for the most part, to sit and listen as long as it keeps going. Some speakers can't seem to stop on time, if there is such a thing as, "on time." However, is this the Christian attitude one should take? That a congregation or a listening audience owes the speaker as much time as they want to speak. That a congregation is somehow broken if it has a time limit. That Christians of all people, should just sit still and listen as long as a preacher wants to go on. And some pastors demand this. They demand the podium as long as they have something to say. That you are not a good person if you think the pastor's time is limited. How dare you have the nerve to stop them? Many demand a captive audience until doomsday, come hell or high water! That if you are in church, you are obligated to listen as long as it takes. That any invited speaker shou...