[Tell It Right]

Maybe I have a bias from living in Alabama, particularly among a bunch of engineers and programmers. Around here, the only Christians who are into sensationalism and bending with the political winds are the "mainline" Protestants. The rest of us are more grounded in being Christian first, our denomination second.

But that may be more indicative of our engineering/system designing culture where we're more into making stuff work in reality than we are about presentation or aesthetics -- including in our personal lives.

[daniel1212]

"Maybe I have a bias from living in Alabama, particularly among a bunch of engineers and programmers. Around here, the only Christians who are into sensationalism and bending with the political winds are the "mainline" Protestants. The rest of us are more grounded in being Christian first, our denomination second. "

Yes, being grounded in being Christian first, our denomination second is what it should be, versus the "one true church" propagandists. The one true church is the body of Christ (Colossians 1:18) to which He is married, (Ephesians 5:25) the "household of faith," (Galatians 6:10) for it uniquely only and always consists 100% of true believers, and which spiritual body of Christ is what the Spirit baptizes ever believer into, (1Co. 12:13) while organic fellowships in which they express their faith inevitably become admixtures of wheat and tares, with Catholicism and liberal Protestantism being mostly the latter.