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Nice article. Before I get caught up in the usual ice-cold quixotic doctored stuff that will inevitable get game cooked when the usual suspects enter this thread, I'll put in my calmer two cents:

orthodoxy (the Apostolic Church) is where you can use your heart and head to read your way into the Church. If you get turned off by the speak in sham tongues etc. groups, you come to orthodoxy and learn the truth

However, there are many people who are not the reading types, many simple, yet devout people. The Church has always reached out to these and still does, but not in as visceral a way as the singing and dancing crews do. Sing yes!

We are the CATHOLIC Church -- we should allow for both these types of people to find their way to The Church. I think The Church does this to some extent in Asia and Africa, but is too dry in America.

That doesn't mean we should become poofy and all-show-no-content like the denominations but we need to have more community outreach, more SCC - Small Christian Communities initiatives, more Youth centered organisations run by the youth themselves.

The onus is on US, The Church to do this as we always have since the time of Christ.