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Dear Mosaiek,

I have recently visited your church in Fairlands, Johannesburg and I would like to therefore share my experience with you.

Johan Geyser spoke extremely well. A dynamic man who gave a tremendous motivational message without a pause or a note.

While waiting in anticipation for him to open the Bible to give me some bread to eat, I studied the painting which is the centrefold of the stage. This well known art only shows the 2 hands. I would have expected the hand on the left to reach out to God with palm and fingers up to our only Hope and Source of Life. Instead the hand was facing palm down with fingers drooping like a willow tree. Then it struck me – it personifies the gay factor. Bear in mind that the original artist – Leonardo da Vinci was gay, he hated the church (and God for that matter), but did jobs for the church to finance his extravagant lifestyle.  Leonardo was a genius and loved riddles and games. The “Shroud of Turin” fooled the church for centuries and it is now believed that Leonardo did an imprint of his own face on the cloth. The Mona Lisa was him as a boy and the Last Supper depicting the disciples as women, is even more mysterious with ideas that fill our bookstores today.

The hand on the right depicting God reaching out to man, shows a hand facing down with one finger pointing hesitantly, reluctantly, maybe as an afterthought, to man.  Perhaps this is the way the gay community view God.

I wondered why this painting was centre stage of a born-again spirit filled church. What influences are here? On stage you notice extremely expensive designer labels which probably could only be bought in Europe.
Do we need the church to finance our extravagant lifestyles?

In the end the minister briefly mention some scriptures, seemingly not to offend anybody.

I walked outside and saw some pretty bells. The bells made a strange, soft, muddled sound. I looked carefully and saw that the bells were jammed full of paper and cloth. Paper from our self-improvement studies and cloth from yesterdays fashions.

The sad thing is that the congregation either forgot or never heard clear brilliant sounding bells with impact to change the world.

In Christ,
Christian.