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To: jrny

Changing parishes is different from changing denominations, in many ways. To jump around churches with different beliefs implies that it's not the truth of the faith that's important, but rather how a person feels about the other church members.

C.S. Lewis recommended that Christians attend their local church (local Anglican parish, in his case) in order to avoid the temptation of searching for a church where everything and everyone was perfect. In his day, an Anglican probably wasn't going to find Gaia-worship or "gay" sacraments, of course :-).

Still, I think he made a good point, that we can fall into pride and begin to think that we're so special that we *deserve* a church with a perfect pastor, a liturgy that exactly suits us, and only the *right* kind of membership.


17 posted on 05/11/2006 7:04:19 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Dump the 1967 Outer Space Treaty! I'll weigh 50% less on Mars!)
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To: Tax-chick

The challenge regarding changing parishes is walking a fine line between what is morally/spiritually dangerous to what is subjectively wanted/desired. My new parish has a few things missing, but they in no can be classified as spiritually dangerous (as was the case before), so I think I walked the fine line to a reasonable solution.







20 posted on 05/11/2006 7:51:01 AM PDT by jrny
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To: Tax-chick
*I live near a very traditional parish high mass, excellent choir, very prosperous.
I know of many Roman Catholic who travel past 5 or 6 other RC churches to attend.
No matter what kind of intellectual gymnastic you perform, this is in fact quite similar to the tendency to follow the man not the institution that you all find so offensive in other Christians.
Ron Dreher manifests a conceit in his snobbish attitude. The article in the Washington Post showed a sort of Martha Stewart demand for the "best of everything": ambiance, literature, elegance, wonderful high brow music. Frankly, his Christianity smacked of a rather superior(unChristlike) attitude in my opinion.
33 posted on 05/11/2006 11:14:26 AM PDT by Bainbridge
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