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Frankly I think if you change the church to suit the neighborhood you’re saving a building, not a congregation.
There’s your problem right there.
**a second reading from sources that have included Buddhist text and children’s books.”**
No wonder it is fading.
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I’m sorry, but I find most of mainline Christianity to be self-rightous atheism at heart. No wonder people aren’t flocking to it.
Must be PCUSA....I think the PCA’s are growing...
I grew up in the Presbyterian church, taught Sunday School there as a teenager, was married in that church and took my kids there. Back in the 80s, some of the high school age SS class material had evolution information. That church isn’t dying, it’s growing. But as I grew older (and up) and really started listening to the sermons, I started to feel totally worthless and that there was really no hope.
Perhaps its just that the minister made me uncomfortable, although I could never put my finger on *why* and the pillars of the church think he is the greatest thing ever sent to them. Maybe I was just not meant to be a Pres., I don’t know. But that’s why I stopped going. It didn’t seem to a very happy or hopeful place that he’s talking about. I’ll never be as perfect as I supposedly should be. So why bother?
Where are the people?
At the contemporary church, where they have a rockin’ good time in the song portion of worship and a message that hits hard with truth and hope.
I didn’t leave my church, it left me.
The sermon on global warming & saving the poor dying polar bears did it for me.
“She and Grant talk about believing in a divine being, and exploring their own version of spirituality, combining elements of Wicca, Buddhism and other religions they have studied.”
Why not worship Zero, your true god?
When liberalism starts creeping in, it affects everything just like a runaway cancer.
This is very sad but is representative of why many parts of Western Civilization is dying. Recognizing that is the first step to turning things around.
Read by a sodomite.
ELCA in Everett, WA - the guy quoted from an Anne Rice novel (Road to Canaan). The two liberal pastors there are always quoting Wobegon or some other crap piece of fiction, the intern they have is quoting scripture.
The guy quoting from Anne Rice was a guest preacher. He’s got a PhD I guess and spoke about the Jesus’ first miracle. He called out Pat Robertson as a heretic, then had the temerity to MENTION the ELCA decision on human sexuality, and then WHIFFED ON IT!!
He said its not the job of lutheran colleges to TAKE A POSITION ON SUCH MATTERS. So, if you are keeping score - Pat Robertson - heretic. ELCA for turning homosexuality into another of God’s consecrated forms of marriage? - No comment.
Guy was a winner.
