{"id":1583,"date":"2007-07-25T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/dddblog\/2007\/07\/25\/the-church-of-the-dead-sea-or-the-church-of-the-dead-me.html"},"modified":"2026-02-12T04:04:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:04:56","slug":"the-church-of-the-dead-sea-or-the-church-of-the-dead-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/the-church-of-the-dead-sea-or-the-church-of-the-dead-me.html","title":{"rendered":"The Church of the Dead Sea or the Church of the dead Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Once in a while Dave Daubenmire&#8217;s  observations leave me somewhat bewildered. I don&#8217;t know where he  attends church but his observation in this article are not based on the  facts. Most Christians do not go to Church three times a week and none  are over-stuffed with the word. You are luck to get Christians  to attend church once a week for one or two hours. Most Christians are  starving for the lack of the word being taught. I have yet to meet one  Christian that is over-stuffed with the word. Most Christians have never  even read through the Bible in their entire lifetime. What is really  happening is that most who go to church come home empty and they do not  feed for themselves either. They cannot go out and do battle because  they have no armor and are not experienced in using the sword.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240926024856\/https:\/\/newswithviews.com\/Daubenmire\/dave77.htm\">Dave <span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">Daubenmire<\/span> &#8212; The Church of the Dead Sea<\/a> As I surveyed the crowd I was struck with the realization that most Christians, even in good Bible-teaching churches, are over-stuffed. You know the feeling, the laziness that always follows a good meal and the desire to sit in an easy-chair and snooze. That is what is happening in our churches. Christians are sitting in the pew, occasionally raising a hand in agreement with the Word, crying out, &#8220;Amen&#8221; to the pastor much the way a sheep \u201c<span id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\">baaa<\/span>\u2019s,\u201d and slowly chewing on the meat that is being served. When the service is over, they go home, lie on the couch, chew on the cud, and bide their time for their next opportunity to go to church and eat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #990000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once in a while Dave Daubenmire&#8217;s observations leave me somewhat bewildered. I don&#8217;t know where he attends church but his observation in this article are not based on the facts. Most Christians do not go to Church three times a week and none are over-stuffed with the word. You are luck to get Christians to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,45,326],"tags":[135,352,114],"class_list":["post-1583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discernment","category-the-church","category-total-nonsense","tag-dave-daubenmire","tag-discernment","tag-logic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pawsE-px","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6892,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions\/6892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}