Florida evangelist Whitney Lynn uses most of her flights as an opportunity to share her faith, a trend that was featured in a recent Washington Post article. On Thursday, she said, her sermon got her kicked off a San Diego-bound jet before it even took off from Orlando International Airport. She documented the removal in a series of videos she posted on social media, one of which had racked up 3 million views on Instagram by Friday afternoon.
I remember a sermon about that from my catholic upbringing. I remeber very few thing from my childhood, but that stuck with me. I think because there we were in church being seen by others and being told we should be at home. The logical gymnastics of these people are impressive in a way.
In all fairness the verse doesn’t mean “don’t go to church.” It’s talking about people who worship in public for the sake of being seen. Like this woman or people who only go to church so they can say they went and keep up appearances in the community. There are plenty of verses that require mental gymnastics and this isn’t really one of them.
It’s talking about Performative Christianity, which is what this person is ALL about.
That is how they interpret it. But think about it. Church is public. During covid, church moved online. And that was fine. But why did it go back to in person. To be seen. And why is there a weekly mass at all. To be seen. Jesus never said people should go to church every week. That whole thing is an addon created but the mortals who wanted to be seen in their fancy robes and such. The whole thing is a mockery of Jesus’s teachings.
or the ones on tv preaching for cash