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Page 6B, The Lee County Ledger, Wednesday, March 6,2019 It’s a Soap Opera World From The Bible By Jerry Kingery Special to the Ledger Dr. James L Snyder As a child, I remem ber my mother watch ing soap operas in the afternoon. I never had much interest in them; I would rather watch The Lone Ranger and his companion Tonto. One afternoon I was sitting in the living room while she was watching one of her soap operas. I was try ing to figure out what in the world was hap pening. None of it made sense and it seemed to be more drama than any thing else. Why they call it, “soap opera” I will never know because they could use more soap in their conver sations. My mother would talk to the characters on TV telling them what they should be doing and saying. Several times, she yelled at them giv ing them instructions. I caught her with tears in her eyes over a certain situation; I could not tell you now what that situ ation was. Although I never was much interested in soap operas, as I have gotten older (and I intend to get a lot older) I begin to see similarities. I am not an expert on soap operas by a long shot. However, it seems to me that our world has become a gigantic soap opera. Everybody seems to be saying a line written for them by somebody else and none of it really making sense. There was a time when you could understand what a person was saying and there was some ratio nale behind the conver sation. Today is not that day. I have noticed TV has many “reality shows.” For my dime, I do not see much reality in any of these reality shows. I know I do not watch them so maybe I am miss ing some thing. However, what I do see is not reality, as I know it. That brings me to a question. What in the world happened to real ity in our culture today? I do not see it anywhere. I understand adver tisements are not based upon reality. Their job is to sell their product to whoever they can sell their product to. I understand all that. I understand that politics today is not based on any kind of reality known to man or woman. If we could get all politicians together in one room we maybe could find one tiny little gray cell that was work ing. However, it would not be overworked. To have politicians that have no sense of reality at all is a very cumbersome predica ment. They have no idea what the average person is up against and they have no way of helping them. With a great deal of soap opera-ism, the politicians speak and speak and speak. Just the other day I was listening to a politi cian talking and I could not understand what in the world he was talking about. The only thing they know what to talk about is whatever the audience at the time accepts to help them get reelected. Where is the reality in politics? It is nothing but an overblown soap opera that nobody is re ally watching. Not long ago when I was sick and could not get out of the house I watched some programs that were called “talk shows.” After listen ing for a little while, I concluded that a hum mingbird made more sense than these people did on talk shows. It has become a soap opera world for sure. Nothing really makes sense, at least to the common person. Noth ing has any sense of re ality in it. I guess when you are in TV you are not allowed to be “real” about anything. The only thing that is real in our social media today Or Is It is the money that people are making acting as if they know what they are doing. Of course, I got a little piece of advice from the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage. I was complaining about all of this non-reality around us and how many idiots were out there in the world. I just went on and on and on until fi nally she heard enough. “Well,” she said rather strictly, “do you want to know what I think about all of this?” Of course she did not give me an opportunity to say yes or no, she was ready to give me her thoughts on this anyway. “Complain about all of the idiots out there all you want. But there’s a positive side to all of this.” To tell you the truth, I could not see any posi tive side so I inquired as to what she was talking about. “Very simply,” she replied, “if it were not for all of the idiots and crazy people out there I would not know how sane you really are.” I had to have her repeat that a couple of times because that was well over my pay grade. It finally sunk in. I complimented her on that and told her she really had a good point. If it weren’t for all of those crazy idiots out See Soap, Page 7B Burial of Jesus After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now ac complished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. Now there was set a vessel full of vin egar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hys sop, and put it to his mouth. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. The Jews there fore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sab bath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him. But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs: But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water. And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe. For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken. And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced. And after this Jo seph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus. And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight. Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury. Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepul chre, wherein was never man yet laid. There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews’ preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand. from John 19 For a free Scripture packet, please write From the Bible, BI BLE FOUNDATION, PO Box 908, New- berg, Oregon 97132. email: bf@bf.org James L. Snyder Attend The House of Worship of Your Choice This Sunday Lee County Church Of Christ Eddie Garcia, Minister Bible Study 9:30 AM Worship..10:30 AM & 6:00 PM Smithville Baptist Lance Fendley, Pastor Sunday School... 10:00 AM Worship...11 AM & 7 PM Philema Road Baptist Sunday School 9:45 AM Morning Worship 11:00 AM Evening Worship ..6:00 PM Alpha Baptist Tom Howard, Pastor Sunday School 9:45 AM Morning Worship 11:00 AM 1st Sunday of the Month Evening Worship ..6:00 PM Antioch Baptist Church Rev. Lem Wright 1st and 3rd Sunday Sunday School 9:00 AM 4th Sunday Worship Service. 10:00 AM Friendship Baptist Church of Lee County Mark Spraggins, Pastor Sunday School 9:45 AM Morning Service.. 11:00 AM Phillip Grove Baptist Pastor Jenkins Sunday School... 10:00 AM 1 st & 3rd Sunday 11:00 AM Mt. Pleasant Baptist Pastor E B Washington Sunday School 8:00 AM Worship Service ...,9:15AM Albany Bible Church Pastor Pete Daughtry, Sun. Bible Class...9:30 & 11:00 Christ’s Sanctified Holy Church Rev. Gary Collier Sunday School... 10:00 AM Worship Service.. 11:00AM Life Church Pastor Matthew Schluckebier Sr. Adult SS 9:30AM Sunday Service....10:45AM Westview Baptist Church Rev. Grady Morey Sunday School....9:45 AM Worship Service...11:00 AM Evening Worship...5:00 PM Kinchafoonee Baptist Rev. Melvin Slappy Sunday School 9:45 AM Morning Worship 11:00 AM Evening Worship .7:00 PM Smithville United Methodist Rev. Duane Whittaker Worship 9:30 AM Sunday School ...10:45 AM Palmyra Baptist J. D. Bolden Sunday School ...10:00 AM Morning Worship 12:00 PM Bible Study (1st Sun) .5:00 PM Eve. Wor. (1st Sun)7:00 PM McAfee Grove Missionary Baptist Minister Robert Lewis Morgan First & Third Sundays Sunday School ...10:00 AM Worship 11:00AM Second & Fourth Sundays Sunday School 8:00 AM Worship 9:00 AM Macadonia Baptist Church Sunday School ...10:30 AM First Sunday Morning Worship 11:45 AM Third Sunday Evening Worship .6:00 PM Jordan Grove Baptist Rev. Rod Hubbard Sunday School 9:45 AM Worship Service .11:00 AM The Pointe Carl Barnhardt Sunday Worship...9:00 am Children’s Ministry (Infants - 3 yr old) Sunday Worship... 10:30 am Children’s Ministry (Infants - 5th grade) Leesburg Church Of Christ Bro. Howard Bouldin Sunday School 9:30 AM Morning Worship 10:45 PM Evening Worship .5:00 PM Greater Zion Hope Apostle Henry L Hosley Every 1st, 4th, 5th Sunday Sunday School...8:00 a.m. Sunday Worship..9:00 a.m. Albany Community Seventh-day Adventist Church Pastor Steve Rose Saturdays Bible Study 9:30 AM Worship 10:40 AM Unity Church of Christianity Rev. Joanna Gabriel Morning Worship ...,11:00 AM New Hope AME Rev. E.X. King Every 1st and third Sunday Sunday School 10:00 AM Sunday Worship 11:00 AM House Of God Saints In Christ Elder A.F. 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