The Circus Church Game — E.A. Johnston

When I was a little boy in grade school my English teacher asked the class to write a poem. Well, the circus had just come to town. So I wrote a little poem about the circus. The teacher graded it by writing a big letter F at the top of the page as she failed me for my effort.

The Cost of Doing What Is Right

She claimed I plagiarized the poem, but I didn't plagiarize the poem. I just wrote the poem in one sitting with the natural talent God gave me as a writer. But I still got an F when I deserved an A. But I learned a valuable lesson about life that day that there are times in life where if you do something worthy The world will slap you down.

Biblical and Historical Examples of Persecution

Even if it's the right thing to do. John the Baptist faced it as he called out a king and it cost him his head. The Apostle Paul faced it by preaching the gospel of truth and his his head fell off, too.

Martin Luther faced it as he called out the potpourri of Rome and all hell broke loose. John Knox faced it as he called out the Queen of England and Scotland went blood-red with persecution. George Whitfield faced it as he called out the Unconverted pulpits of his day and rotten eggs and stones were hurled at his head.

And you will face a two-framed if you start preaching the gospel of the Son of God, which is rune redemption repentance and Regeneration in a day like today of an apostate church and a morally bankrupt society.

The Circus Atmosphere of the Modern Church

You'll be slapped down for your efforts. Spurned by your colleagues. Mocked by the religious unconverted and shut out of every pulpit that hates the lordship of Jesus Christ. We have a Circus atmosphere today in the modern church where you can find many amusements to entertain you.

The Cotton Candy Gospel and the Loss of God's Presence

Where many pulpits are filled with noisy? Carnival barkers and grease paint fainted face clowns. The circus church game is played out every Sunday where the handout a Cotton candy gospel that looks appealing and tastes sweet and will stick to your hands for a little while.

Until it's washed off with soap and water. Samuel Chadwick had this to say about the circus church in his day. When a church is run on the same lines as a circus. There may be crowds but there is no Shekinah.

The Circus Church Poem and Eternal Judgment

I Wrote a little poem back then and I got a slap for it. And I write my little poem now with probably the same results, but here it goes friends. How I love the circus when it comes to town especially the pastor clown.

The trapeze artists sure give me a scare and like the hot balloon the preachers full of air. I Eat popcorn and get sick while monkeys in the pulpits do their tricks. But although they're here for just a while They sure know how to make you smile.

The whole circus is filled with fun and games that makes the adults laugh just the same. But a day will come When the Sun will set and the poles are taken down of the big circus tent. When the soul dies and flies away far from the sounds of the circus parade.

Inhale soul scream and misery and pain. But while on earth they played the circus church game.