Laying Your Weight On The Alter and Kissing Friends Good-bye

[Bren]

I was at a youth service at our church friday night, and I thought the sermon was good and wanted to sum it up and us talk about it. The sermon was about how Elisha went and told his family good-bye and went with Elija and how we need to put some things that are hindering us on the alter and some things like friends don't deserve to be put on the alter so we should give them a kiss good-bye. What do you think of this?

[Josef1004]

Interesting question; we shall see if we can see. I have heard that Jewish people typically take a long time for good-byes.

[The Top Crusader]

I wouldn't want to kiss my friends.

[American Eagle]

The point of his sermon (I'm assuming) isn't literally putting things on an alter or smooching our friends. Laying something "on the alter" is basically giving up something, and letting God have control of that area of our life." "Kissing our friends" isn't literal; it means that if a "friend" is keeping us from doing God's Will, we need to stop hanging out with them.

That's how I interpreted it, anyways.

[Bren]

Good job. That was the exact point.

[Nasri]

The point of his sermon (I'm assuming) isn't literally putting things on an alter or smooching our friends. Laying something "on the alter" is basically giving up something, and letting God have control of that area of our life." "Kissing our friends" isn't literal; it means that if a "friend" is keeping us from doing God's Will, we need to stop hanging out with them.

That's how I interpreted it, anyways.

You learn from a sermon if minister to personally so two people can have to complete different version of sermon