pushover
Christop went to a church service on the weekend and was pushed over:
Anyway. At the end of the service, I went up the front to be prayed for, and the guest speaker pushed me over. Because I had my hands in the air and my head back, he got me off balance. I probably could have got my balance back and stopped him from pushing me over, but I didn’t really want to resist him for some reason. I didn’t want to make a fuss.
I love this because I totally know what he means about not wanting to make a fuss. But yet it is pretty weird that in a church environment we are sufficiently indoctrinated so that we don’t want to make a fuss. It prompted a mental image for me of what would have happened if Christop had made a fuss. I pictured him squaring up with the minister yelling “Hey, what’s your problem?” and pushing him right back.
I think that would be cool.
August 29th, 2005 at 6:45 pm
I was talking to my housemate about it at lunch time, and she said that he put his hands on her neck (?!) and tried to push her over as well, but she didn’t let him because she felt she needed to resist.
August 29th, 2005 at 8:08 pm
People have tried to push me over before, I don’t fall down very easily
I had a friend put an evangelist in cuffs and was waiting for the police, and was going to charge him with assault after he practically slapped his wife in the forehead. The pastors talked him out of it, I wish they hadn’t.
The funny thing is they act like you are rebellious or sinful for not falling for their huckstery. I believe in the power of God, and sometimes things like that happen. But it isn’t some disgusting display of entertainment.
the rev
August 29th, 2005 at 10:20 pm
the new site layout looks very good!! I like it-much more attractive.
August 30th, 2005 at 2:17 pm
Thanks Abj.. credit goes to Justen of Radical Congruency (link on side bar)… he designed the template and we just edited it for our purposes.
September 4th, 2005 at 11:34 am
At my previous church I used to hold the position (unofficial) of the “head catcher.” You’d ‘sift’ up behind someone at an alter call if you had an inkling that the Preacher would be preying for that person and you’d wait to see if they were a dropper or not. (You usually knew who the droppers were.)
I’m always amused at the styles of “Praying” the preachers have. Some sneak up on you while you have your eyes closed and thrust their outstretched hand into your abdomen, some place their hands on the sides of your head and rock you backwards and forward, (this really throws your balance off!). At one popular youth conference in Christchurch, the head speaker got a young man up onto the stage to pray, after a while, and no success at “felling” him as he just kept backing up when he was pushed, he puts his foot in-behind the young guys leg, gives him a shove and sends him on his way… By the power of the Holy Spirit… of course.
As an ex-catcher I got to see and hear heaps of stories.