Passion Killers

"No-one will take you seriously without a Theology degree - especially if you're a woman, and perhaps not even then. You can't do anything in the church until you get the degree."

"You have to ask the pastor's permission if you want to start a Bible study or any home group. You can't just do something like that. He has a right to know and approve it or say no."

"Your enthusiasm is out of place here. This is a church, you know."

"Don't try bring in anything new. The old is good enough and what you want to try is heretical."

"If you want to try new things, go plant a church. But first get it approved by the members, passed by the church board, raise enough money to get it started, get the Head of the Organization's permission, and make sure it's a church plant that doesn't change things too much from how it's done now."

"You put too much jazz into your piano playing. This is not a rock concert."

It's really hard to keep a passion for worship, for God, when words fly like arrows to pierce a heart tender and new for Him. The wounds have healed, but the passion is hard to rediscover. Perhaps it's hiding under all that scar tissue.