[txroadkill]

This is just my opinion, but....

It does seem like a lot of churches these days have been so focused of filling pews that they have forgot that the goal is to fill heaven. Seems like they decided that if you cannot bring the world to church, then why not bring the church to the world. While filling the pews is a great idea, we cannot omit the word to do it so that it is easier to get people to come and not feel guilty about what they do the other six days of the week.Christ said, "pick up your cross and follow me", he never said, "call you buddies, we're having a party."

[Knitting A Conundrum]

churchLite everywhere.

It's a shame.

[lightman]

Obviously so obsessed with certain great numbers that they have forgotten "where two or three are gathered together in my name..."

Poet laureate Sir John Betjamin says it best:

And is it true--this most tremendous tale of all
Seen is a stain glass window’s hue
A baby, in a cattle stall, the maker of the stars and sea
Become a child on earth, for me?

And is it true? For if it is,
No love that in a family dwells, no caroling in frosty air
Can with this single truth compare:
That God was man in Palestine
And lives today in Bread and Wine.