Or ‘Lost in Alabama’
“...how they make church fun for families, and how they build thriving, mission-minded congregations.”
This guy needs to learn about Catholicism.
In Catholicism we celebrate the Eucharist at Mass. We can struggle to tune out the 1970s variety show they’ve made of it or tune it all out either way getting the Body of Christ.
Then we can go have fun.
Building mission minded congregations? What is that? We evangelize the way St Francis told us to. Preaching the Gospel, and if necessary, using words. We simply do not do it capitalistically. We live it for whomever is around
We don’t go out and round up people so they’ll get out Church’s numbers up
Those old churches in France. If they’re empty, even if the Muslims take them, Catholicism does not falter. What’s to learn from Protestants? Either we live as Jesus taught us and attract people to Him so He can have them in their eternal life or we answer to him when we miss the opportunity.
J Pepper would really have to point to where in the gospel, Jesus said to make church fun
I don’t think he was making a huge point about the “fun”. They guy and is family are still Catholic. Maybe his church doesn’t have much of a youth group, and the neighboring Evangelicals have one that’s hugely active and attractive. It wouldn’t do the Catholics any harm to learn how to do that. Without, of course, sacrificing the real essentials of the Faith.