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the ferry
the ferry Posts: 258
edited August 2009 in The bottom bracket
...Wow, saw the lads riding to the club run yesterday morning my heart literally ached to join them....i was driving to Church...just feel its appropriate at this time to sacrifice something i love for er something i love. Good job God is good eh? :wink:

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  • White Line
    White Line Posts: 887
    Y'know you can go to Church on any day, don't you. :P

    Got to love the big man for giving us bikes!
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  • timb64
    timb64 Posts: 248
    Surely your god would forgive you if you went alternate Sundays?
  • Cressers
    Cressers Posts: 1,329
    Does God care so much about whether you praise Him in a stone box or give thanks for everything while feeling enlivened by the wind in your hair?
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Then ride to church! Speaking as a committed Christian and therefore someone who is committed to going to church pretty much every sunday - not out of obligation but because I believe it's worh it; I know it's a bit unusual but there are a few of us here who think there are more important things than cycling.
    But I was indeed out on my new bike this sunday morning, and I do actually regard it as an act of worship - I mean just think, could you invent carbon? My God enjoys it when we do what we were created for, +1 for Cresser's comment - surely a sensible attitude whether you believe or not.
    I'll never forget the sour face on the old lady at last year's Etape C (funny, I didn't see any protestors this year, did they know something?) with her poster complaining that she couldn't get to church. If she had got there, she might have heard a certain J. Christ being quoted: "the sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath".
  • the ferry
    the ferry Posts: 258
    ....as much as i love cycling it doesn't compare to the joy and peace of worshipping him in Church with my family and friends around me.
    ......and of course riding anytime its easy to praise God though the wind in the hair thing would need a great leap of faith :lol:
  • Cressers
    Cressers Posts: 1,329
    I wish I felt that sort of peace, but I don't.
  • the ferry
    the ferry Posts: 258
    ....as much pleasure as family, bikes and even work sometimes gives me it all feels pretty pointless without God at the centre of it all.

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  • jrduquemin
    jrduquemin Posts: 791
    bompington wrote:
    Then ride to church! Speaking as a committed Christian and therefore someone who is committed to going to church pretty much every sunday - not out of obligation but because I believe it's worh it; I know it's a bit unusual but there are a few of us here who think there are more important things than cycling.
    But I was indeed out on my new bike this sunday morning, and I do actually regard it as an act of worship - I mean just think, could you invent carbon? My God enjoys it when we do what we were created for, +1 for Cresser's comment - surely a sensible attitude whether you believe or not.
    I'll never forget the sour face on the old lady at last year's Etape C (funny, I didn't see any protestors this year, did they know something?) with her poster complaining that she couldn't get to church. If she had got there, she might have heard a certain J. Christ being quoted: "the sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath".

    What exactly were we 'created' for? Causing death and destruction on a daily basis if the current news is anything to go by. And all in 'his' name too!! :roll:
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  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    Do you really love going to church that much? Last time I went to church I think I was clock watching most of the time followed by falling asleep.
  • nick hanson
    nick hanson Posts: 1,655
    Each to his own
    It does stand to reason that there's a good chance you'd see the club run....on a Sunday
    It's your choice,& yours alone what you choose to do with your Sundays.
    so many cols,so little time!
  • Stone Glider
    Stone Glider Posts: 1,227
    Isn't this "wind in your hair, don't need to worship god in a stone box" part of the Albigensian Heresy? A lot of dudes in the south of France got toasted over that stuff a while back.

    You all be careful out there!
    The older I get the faster I was
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Stone Glider wrote:
    Isn't this "wind in your hair, don't need to worship god in a stone box" part of the Albigensian Heresy? A lot of dudes in the south of France got toasted over that stuff a while back.

    You all be careful out there!
    No it's not, they were more the opposite - the kind of philosophy that says that everything physical is evil & only the spiritual is good.
    They got toasted because they challenged the established political power of the church; it's precisely that sort of confusing the real mission of the church with political power that leads to opinions like jrduquemin's - although I would have thought that the old "religious people cause all the wars" chestnut might have taken a bit of a battering in the last century or so after all the efforts of Hitler*, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot etc.


    *I claim exemption from Godwin's law as I have not actually compared anyone to the Nazis
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Having that sort of Faith must be such a nice thing.
  • Bugly
    Bugly Posts: 520
    the ferry wrote:
    ...Wow, saw the lads riding to the club run yesterday morning my heart literally ached to join them....i was driving to Church...just feel its appropriate at this time to sacrifice something i love for er something i love. Good job God is good eh? :wink:

    :twisted: sorry what is god? or GOD? strange concept really ...
  • the ferry
    the ferry Posts: 258
    ...Hey Aussie try typing in hillsong.com. There are some great churches in Australia and here in the UK.

    Freehub - yeah there are certainly churches around that would have me bored to tears but there are also some where the word of God is being celebrated and taught with passion and energy in a modern day contempary setting - no clock watching where i go mate! :wink:

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