hideous hymns, vocal vicars and theatrical thuribles. Religious Chat Thread Number 6!

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yy, really, really need to feel God deep down!

If only he didn't give Man free control.....

Or woman for that matter, but that's the whole point, isn't it?

my week's been up and down.
For the first time in ages, i felt happy when i left Busy Bees, not lonely.
i had a visit from my BA (booksellers' Association) rep, and we chatted about stuff. nice not to feel so alone in my failure
the music group upstairs is moving venue next week, which is good and bad - good because it means i don't have to worry so much about being neat clean and tidy every week before she gets here; bad because it means that i won't get mentions in her business anymore. It didn't bring in an awful lot of trade, but nice to know that it was there iyswim
today, i've had a couple of customers (thought i would say only 1, but a lovely lady from twitter has just orderd 6 books )
it's been quiet all week really.

that's why i put Man with a capital - mankind (human beans)
although, having said that, i think that if women had been in charge of society, it might have been a better story.

Sort of "Hey God, You boobed, creating Adam before Eve?"

It's obvious, isn't it? God created man, realised he hadn't got it quite right, so made woman. The crowning glory, and all that

MHD

The leader said they'd talk to the boys. Am still trying to get to the bottom of it, I know DS has done something, just not entirely sure what, or how it started. But he is the one with the different ability, and he will copy bad behaviour. I don't want him repeating the stuff to younger children, which is why I've had to come down hard, even though its not his fault.

Feeling really rubbish today. Hope you're feeling better MHD.

Hi, it's take a while to find you, I'm not up to speed with who everone is so sorry not to be more speaky, I am normally a real chatterbox.

Mary hope you get the behaviour things sorted out.

Jayne hope your son is OK.

Niminy hope you get the money back.

Can I just ask if anyone is off to Spring Harvest this year, please?

Thanks, for the first time in ages this morning he has come into our room and said he feels ok! Still keeping him off school today to give him longer to build his strength up. Couldn't bear it if he went back today and picked up another bug!
Would love to go to Spring Harvest but it is so expensive for a family of 4 isn't it?

Jayne glas to hear your son is better.

Spring Harvest is very, very expensive. We are a family of three but not sure if we pay similar to a family of four because we have a two room chalet. we are in the process of adopting so maybe one day we will be a family of 4.

A friend was explaining the parable of the good shepherd last Sunday to some kids from a farming background. These are some of the kids responses:

?My granddad doesn?t love his sheep. He calls them xxxx?

?That?s a stupid story. No farmer only has 100 sheep. They have at least 5000 sheep.?

?My Dad says you shouldn?t look for stray sheep. He says if the buggers are stupid enough to wander off they deserve what?s coming to them.?

?Of course you can?t look after every sheep. If a sheep has [long list of technical problems from a farmer?s son] then you shoot it. Even Jesus wouldn?t want sheep like that.?

?Why did he spend days searching for the missing sheep? Why didn?t he just send the dogs??

I'd love to go to Spring Harvest too. Too much money though and too far to travel. Maybe some day.

Hope you are feeling better today Mary.

Wonderful Cloutie

It made me laugh. Some things just don't translate so well into modern culture.

Hello, just wondered if I could join you? I came across this thread looking to see if anyone else had been to New Wine Women's Day.

hi janey yes, please do come in and sit down!

newbie questions:

happy clappy or traditional?
choir or singing group?
organ or keyboards/bands?
hymn books or screens?
and the important one: do you like Graham Kendrick?

Welcome Janey. Make yourself at home.

Hello Janey

Thank you for the welcome :)

Definitely yes to Graham Kendrick

The rest is more complicated. I was brought up going to very traditional C of E churches, but the church I attend now it much more happy clappy/singing group/keyboards/screens. I can do both but I choose keyboards and screens, I suppose!

Welcome janey

Fantastic Cloutie. It works pretty well here because they still have shepherds who do pretty much what NT Shepherds did (in the summer at least - in the winter the sheep stay in).

I know at college though there was some discussion about the imagery of the shepherd and what it means to different cultures - in some cultures shepherds lead the sheep (ie from in front) and in some they go behind with a big stick which obviously colours your interpretation of Jesus as the good Shepherd. I probably haven't explained that very well

I'm pretty sure it's less to do with leading yoyr sheep and more to do with keeping them safe and making sure they stay in the right direction.
whether you do that by being at the front pulling along, or by keeping a close eye on everyone from the back-always in charge but never interfering, is irrelevant I think.

Welcome Janey :-)

Very interesting about the shepherds!

Welcome Janey - I was at the women's day last week in Harrogate.

Re SH - it is far too expensive for us too :( Such a shame, it prices so many people out of it, and ends up being rather middle class and unrepresentative I find. (I used to work there as a student, absolutely loved it) - we go to New Wine which is more affordable but is camping - I do think there are advantages to that though, it's a lot more sociable of an evening grouped round the tents with boxes of wine hot chocolate. :)

V interesting about the shepherd thing!

Can you believe this snow. ds has gone to Manchester today on a cubs sixers camp - hoping the journey is all ok worrying mummy - he was v v excited, they're off to the science museum, and having a sleepover/treasure hunt back in Bridgnorth. Sounds like incredibly hard work fun!