Comments on: An Apology to The Baptists http://availablelightonline.com/blog/2008/12/27/an-apology-to-the-baptists/ blog of a Spirit-filled, post-political, Reforming Christian. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:29:29 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Frequent Commenter Ken http://availablelightonline.com/blog/2008/12/27/an-apology-to-the-baptists/comment-page-1/#comment-9258 Frequent Commenter Ken Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:37:36 +0000 http://availablelightonline.com/blog/?p=2265#comment-9258 <i>Heaven was not going to be like a public library atmosphere with boring stale preaching mixed with orchestra music, fundy trumpets, a well rehearsed choir, no drums, and a kiddie handbell choir. OH NO Heaven was going to be like a ole-fashioned sawdust tent-revival service with loud noises and hyper-emotionalism with a “Hallelujah Hoedown’ of Southern Gospel singing music with the country twang and men dressed in their like suits and women dressed in their like dresses made from the Simplicity patterns and materials sold in the cloth department at Wal-Mart and those Baptists better learn the words to ‘the blood songs’ (Nothing But The Blood, When I See The Blood, Are You Washed In The Blood, There’s Pow’r In The Blood…) because that’s all we’re singing in heaven, not “Just As I Am, How Great Thou Art, and At The Cross” while we’re running around the place. They better learn how to run also….</i> Neither of those Heavens are particularly attractive. (In one of the Father Brown Mysteries, Chesterton wrote of "various Eastern heavens, rather worse than many Western Hells", and these two are in the running.) I'll take Resurrection into a New Cosmos instead, plus romping and playing with all the critters in Aslan's Land (including all the critters of our imagination Resurrected into reality). "The Ring melted down, the Dark Lord no more, the sun shining bright in the very heart of Mordor; and the cry echoes throughout Minas Tirith, from the Great Gates to the Tower of Echthelion: 'THE KING HAS RETURNED!'" Heaven was not going to be like a public library atmosphere with boring stale preaching mixed with orchestra music, fundy trumpets, a well rehearsed choir, no drums, and a kiddie handbell choir.

OH NO

Heaven was going to be like a ole-fashioned sawdust tent-revival service with loud noises and hyper-emotionalism with a “Hallelujah Hoedown’ of Southern Gospel singing music with the country twang and men dressed in their like suits and women dressed in their like dresses made from the Simplicity patterns and materials sold in the cloth department at Wal-Mart and those Baptists better learn the words to ‘the blood songs’ (Nothing But The Blood, When I See The Blood, Are You Washed In The Blood, There’s Pow’r In The Blood…) because that’s all we’re singing in heaven, not “Just As I Am, How Great Thou Art, and At The Cross” while we’re running around the place. They better learn how to run also….

Neither of those Heavens are particularly attractive. (In one of the Father Brown Mysteries, Chesterton wrote of “various Eastern heavens, rather worse than many Western Hells”, and these two are in the running.) I’ll take Resurrection into a New Cosmos instead, plus romping and playing with all the critters in Aslan’s Land (including all the critters of our imagination Resurrected into reality).

“The Ring melted down, the Dark Lord no more, the sun shining bright in the very heart of Mordor; and the cry echoes throughout Minas Tirith, from the Great Gates to the Tower of Echthelion: ‘THE KING HAS RETURNED!’”

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