Does the Coli go to church?
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I used to think like this until I started reading the Bible.
those ppl are actually strong representations of what being a Christian is. No matter what, you’ll always be a sinner, but your sins are forgiven
Maybe God will forgive them but when your dad is the pastor and he smokes crack, cheats on your mom and lies to the church about his family life every sunday you kinda lose trust. Plus all the other hypocrites you see growing up there too
LennoxWine
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That's rather recent. Care to tell why?
A young man at my church is on his way to college this week and just found out that he had a $20k bill. So he wouldn’t have to take out any loans, our church raised the 20k for him this past Sunday.
Churches were historically vehicles for people to get ahead.
Class in America: Want to Get Ahead? Try Church
Which may be another factor in why black millennials are doing worse than their parents generation since most black millenials are churchless.
Many are missing out on crucial networking opportunities that could propel their careers in their 20s and 30s.
I believe that in order to get ahead, you have to be strategic in everything.
I was lucky in that the parish that I grew up in was and is still considered among some people to be king dingaling in my city.
The head priest is a member of the Boule and the church is wall to wall Links, JnJ, Alpha’s, Deltas, Assembly, Druids, and Snakes members.
I got my first internship which inevitably became my first full-time job at Pricewaterhouse Coopers because a black Partner was a member. I met my current girlfriend here because her family are members. I was invited to join a black social club just for being a member. A mentor of mine who is over admissions at Booth Business School at UofC essentially told me when I’m ready to apply let him know and I’m basically in. I was just inducted into this Urban League top rising black leaders fellowship which also pipelines into Booth because a member of my church oversees the program. I have gotten put on so much because the members look out for each other.
My family always taught me that religion has its place.
If you don’t attend church because you’re not the most religious, that’s fair. Most people aren’t, at least in my faith. But there are other benefits if you’re strategic and ambitious.
nikkas could literally eat if they fall into the right church. Most of the women are single and looking and the networking opportunities are crazy.
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Good point. But children seem to listen more when their parent's teachings are reaffirmed by outside sources. At least I did.
ThrobbingHood
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I understand why my parents made me and my siblings go to church as children: it's a good way for us to socialize with other black families in a healthy environment.
Even though I'm not really religious and I'm not keen on church, when I have children, I'm definitely going to make sure they attend with me and my future wife.
It won't be no 5 hour marathon church service though. 2 hours tops.
The wife and I have kinda fallen off with going as much in the last year.
I believe in a supreme being, but I find the process of church itself to be a little boring especially if you dont have a good teacher in the pulpit. Most people are not knowledgeable enough to be trying to lead a flock.
Too many of these ministers in the Black church do a lot of hooping and hollering with little teaching involved. Many live a life very contrary to what they talk about as well and that also turns a lot of people off.
I dont consider myself to be the most religious person, but I pray and I know there is a God or some complex being looking out for me. I've been in some hectic situations in life and I've watched them turn around in the eleventh hour.
I need to make sure my sons have that foundation regardless of my views of many aspects of religion.
I believe in a supreme being, but I find the process of church itself to be a little boring especially if you dont have a good teacher in the pulpit. Most people are not knowledgeable enough to be trying to lead a flock.
Too many of these ministers in the Black church do a lot of hooping and hollering with little teaching involved. Many live a life very contrary to what they talk about as well and that also turns a lot of people off.
I dont consider myself to be the most religious person, but I pray and I know there is a God or some complex being looking out for me. I've been in some hectic situations in life and I've watched them turn around in the eleventh hour.
I need to make sure my sons have that foundation regardless of my views of many aspects of religion.
Contrefaire
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Nope. I stopped going when I was allowed to make the choice for myself in my teens. Have only been sporadically to accompany my paternal grandmother (who passed last year) or for funerals since then. It didn't help that I grew up going to a popular black church in LA where I witnessed a lot of hypocrisy and treachery first hand from a young age.
I rarely speak on the subject but I feel organized religion, especially Christianity has been somewhat detrimental to black advancement in America. I feel if you believe in God and are interested in the bible, there are far better ways to be spiritually enriched than having an old man who drives a Tesla tell you all about how the meek shall inherit the earth ~one day~...but not now though, so just pray real hard and tithe and maybe when you die your circumstances will improve.
I rarely speak on the subject but I feel organized religion, especially Christianity has been somewhat detrimental to black advancement in America. I feel if you believe in God and are interested in the bible, there are far better ways to be spiritually enriched than having an old man who drives a Tesla tell you all about how the meek shall inherit the earth ~one day~...but not now though, so just pray real hard and tithe and maybe when you die your circumstances will improve.
Not yet but I would like to. For now I have been maintaining a relationship with God, sharing verses with others, praying, watching sermons on YouTube.
Church is good but let's be honest most treat it like it's one of the bases in a game of baseball and their safe for that week or day. We should all be reading the word as well.
This sounds like a lot of Churches to me.
Revelation 3:13-17 (KJV)
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
People righteous for that day or days and back to their habits and vices. I'm not judging them but if you're going to church and not actually hot for God in your life. What are you doing?
Matthew 28:18-20 (KJV)
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
John 14:12 (KJV)
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
Matthew 25:31-40 (KJV) When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Matthew 22:37-40 (KJV) Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Matthew 5:28 (KJV)
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
John 14:15 (KJV) If ye love me, keep my commandments.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 (KJV)
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Matthew 5:44-45 (KJV)
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Matthew 6:14-15 (KJV)
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
James 1:12-15 (KJV) Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Matthew 10:22 (KJV)
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
John 14:12 (KJV)
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
Matthew 25:31-40 (KJV) When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Matthew 22:37-40 (KJV) Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
This is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Matthew 5:28 (KJV)
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
John 14:15 (KJV) If ye love me, keep my commandments.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 (KJV)
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Matthew 5:44-45 (KJV)
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Matthew 6:14-15 (KJV)
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
James 1:12-15 (KJV) Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Matthew 10:22 (KJV)
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Okay deaconYeah. If I don't go, I don't get paid.
Maybe God will forgive them but when your dad is the pastor and he smokes crack, cheats on your mom and lies to the church about his family life every sunday you kinda lose trust. Plus all the other hypocrites you see growing up there too
Your pops wasn't really a Christian
How does that stop him from being christian? How many christians do shyt they shouldn't? So if people have problems in life that takes their Christianity away from them? He eventually got his shyt together years later but none of that changed or took his faith.