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[SATIRE] Mega-church downsizes, [SATIRE] cuts non-essential members [SATIRE]
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| September 2006
Posted on 09/01/2006 8:04:47 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
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To: Larry Lucido
I assume the pastor's name is Rod?
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posted on
09/03/2006 6:32:03 AM PDT
by
Alex Murphy
(Colossians 2:6)
To: Alex Murphy
I assume the pastor's name is Rod? Spare me.
Prov. 13:24
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posted on
09/03/2006 6:42:40 AM PDT
by
Sloth
('It Takes A Village' is problematic when you're raising your child in Sodom.)
To: Sloth; Alex Murphy; Nihil Obstat
All right, knock off the satire.
Besides, Rod was let go because he only had one talent and kept hiding it.
Matthew 25:14-30
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posted on
09/03/2006 10:48:13 AM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
("There's no problem so big that government intervention can't make it worse.")
To: Alex Murphy
What you wrote is satire...and truth.
In Los Angeles, one of the biggest churches of the African-American community
basically has a membership contract establishing the minimal activities
a person will expect do in order to be a member in good standing.
As sociologists like Rodney Stark have pointed out...growing and
vibrant churches are usually those that actually demand/expect
something of the people in the pews.
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posted on
09/03/2006 10:56:33 AM PDT
by
VOA
To: stands2reason
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posted on
09/03/2006 11:16:16 AM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
("There's no problem so big that government intervention can't make it worse.")
To: Alex Murphy
I don't like this letter idea. Haven't they read Matthew 18? Not as bad as that story about mascots in worship, but still.
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posted on
09/03/2006 11:45:42 AM PDT
by
A.J.Armitage
(http://calvinist-libertarians.blogspot.com/)
To: norge
Our little congregation isn't a mega-church, by any means, but the participation is way higher than 15 percent. I don't know precisely what it is, but I would guess closer to 80 percent.
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posted on
09/03/2006 8:50:48 PM PDT
by
zot
(GWB -- the most slandered man of this decade)
To: zot
Our church is probably a "mid-mega" church, and it has planted a church that has superceded it in size and effect, and it certainaly has a higher percentage of participation than 15 per cent.
The 15 per cent figure is a generalization of any and all organizations.
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posted on
09/03/2006 10:21:16 PM PDT
by
norge
To: norge
The 15 per cent figure is a generalization of any and all organizations. Oh, Okay. I didn't know about that generalization. Thanks for the clarification.
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09/04/2006 7:31:34 PM PDT
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zot
(GWB -- the most slandered man of this decade)
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