Gospel and megachurch
Another letter that found the editor's trash can a while back (pre computers, no-one in Australia had trash cans. Just garbage bins and dust bins. Now we have a whole new class of rubbish).
A good friend told me that the tone of this letter was far too smug. Then another friend told me that it was just the ticket and should have gotten in. Being a naturally smug person, I think I will just keep writing 'em smug and trust to the letters editor that most of them will only ever be read by her.
Dear editor,
I don't really like megachurches either (“Rise of megachurches may be dangerous, top cleric warns” SMH Feb 23), even though the church I attend has, all up, about a thousand people in it across the various congregations. The trouble is that when you tell people that forgiveness of sins and rescue from hell are available to those who acknowledge Jesus as Lord, all these people keep turning up wanting to find out more. I try to be rude to them but they just keep asking more questions.
Yours sincerely,
The Rev. Gordon Cheng