Interpretation and speculation
Conjecture and surmise,
Trying to fit into an agenda
Coming up with a disguise.
Having the gullible for lunch
Spontaneity, the trap,
Appealing to the “feel-good”
sense
And supplying their perceived lack.
Redefining and reinventing
Repositioning and meandering,
Missing the mark but growing
And to felt-needs pandering.
Charting a course for growth
Numerical trumping the
spiritual,
Rudderless and powerless
But setting sights on the
physical.
What an astounding building!
And it cost a pricey piece
With many accommodating
compartments
Catering to comfort and ease.
Strategic planning to a “T”
SWOT Analysis and everything,
Mission statements too as in
Corporations
But lacking vision in their
rendering.
Focusing on Founders’
teachings
And neglecting the spiritual
new birth,
Departing from the manual:
The Best Instruction
Before Leaving Earth.
A vain and empty religiosity
But amazingly appealing to
their groups
Where any and everything goes
And on spiritual matters often
mute.
Sailing the contemporary seas
On their emotional high,
Struggling on the earth
But attempting to conquer the
skies.
Having their pie and eating it
now
“No pie in the sky for me,
Not too sure about what is to
come
Heaven is wherever I be.”
Taking lessons from the world
And following its latest
trends,
Afraid to stick out like a
sore thumb
Thus, to its idols bend.
Justifying the Bible by their
life
Rather than the other way
around,
Clowning around and other acts
Like when the circus comes to
town.
Lacking in substance and in
depth
As they misconstrue the Word
But having a tremendous
following
In spite of majoring on the
absurd.
A dubious paradigm-shift, I
call it,
Yet many are jumping on…
The proverbial bandwagon
syndrome
In an attempt to surf the
storm.
That may seem crazy to you
And it once was crazy to them
too,
But one day the craziness
became alluring
And it became what they wanted
to do.
In these times of strange
paradigms
Be very careful how you shift,
Get grounded in the Word of
God,
It is not a good idea to
drift.
Stewart Russell © July 2020
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