Feast Gifts!!!!
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Years later, that same son, now with his own family and far removed from the Church stopped at Jekyll Island Feast site and just stood in the back recalling what he perceived as his good old days. Then he left.
But of all things, it was those "Feast Gifts" we gave them along the way that were the stuff their memories were made of. For kids, it was the substitute for not keeping Christmas of course. It was even better than Christmas we would tell them to lessen the downer it must have been when they actually came upon the Christmas season. I grew up with Christmas as did most of us, but it was not actually the big deal to me that "The Feast" was to be in my WCG experience. Today one son is a non church participant and we have a good relationship and my oldest is a practicing Catholic who enjoys the stabililty and form the church has to offer. When he was in catechism class he'd call me to ask stuff like, "now tell me the story of _____________ in the Bible, so I can get through these classes , and don't tell me whether it really happened or not!" :)
Of course it was not really the Feast, i.e, Church, they were excited about. It certainly was not the sitting or the "happy" hymns. It was not the sermonette that so often seemed, to me, like a time wasting filler so we could say we spent a lot of time at church. It probably was not the special music unless they were stuck doing it with YES/YOU choirs. Lord knows it was not the sermons, but I have to say as well that, in spite of enjoying my youthful experience growing up in the Presbyterian Church, I cannot recall one sermon ever given either. I do remember in detail the picnics, hayrides and Boy Scouts sponsored by the church.
It was the time off, the location, the beach, the friends, the freedom that they looked forward to. And the gifts...
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...specifically comes to mind back in the day
But as the years have worn on and those times are past, it occurs to me, after seeing such craziness in religion as represented by the James Malm, Gerald Flurry and Dave Pack types, I thought it might be good to encourage everyone associated with these under trained, over funded and ego centric know nothings some Feast gifts that would probably do them some good. As Dave Pack might say, "I don't think I have ever received a Feast quite like this before. Maybe I did once, but nothing quite like this.
For your consideration:
and how about...
or...
or God forbid...
Personally I would give these as a feast gifts just to let them know that mere Bible reading and then just reexplaining in a sermon what everyone just read is not really being a theologian with the responsibility to actually inform people about all things religious and life changing ...
but not...
