More chance of hearing the Gospel in Africa than Sweden

Pastoral Meanderings ^ | 08-16-2015 | Pastor Peters

[LadyDoc]

And how many Scots were martyred for being Christian last year? Your ideas of Africa are 50 years out of date.

And African priests have worked in American mission fields for years. We had several in our Tulsa diocese.

There are even Christian movies made in Africa on you tube.

[LadyDoc]

FYI...American pioneers ate grasshoppers.

Africans eat flying ants and caterpillers.

Pinoys eat duck embyos and crickets.

[Cronos]

What if this African Christian is from Ethiopia? His people have been Christian for 2 thousand years...

[humblegunner]

Then he needs to go lecture somebody who isn’t already a Christian.

And also maybe work on the mastery of running water and electricity while he’s at it.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"Then he needs to go lecture somebody who isn’t already a Christian."

Somehow, I have the strong impression that's what he's doing.

[humblegunner]

Somehow, I have the strong impression that's what he's doing.

Well then kindly go back and see post #6.

My entire premise is based upon, and I quote:

If some N00b Christian African comes around “Missionarying” at me,

[redgolum]

There are “free” (non state) synods in Scandinavia and other EU countries. The Finnish synods are actually closer to the Orthodox after a few hundred years of close contact.

But, as my Grandfather used to say, there is a reason we left for the new world (and Russia). The rot that came from the State churches was pretty far advanced.

[Mrs. Don-o]

That was exactly my premise when I said he was addressing people who are not Christians, in some sense of the word.

Most of us--- I include you and me in a larger "us"-- could benefit from a little Remedial Christianity.

My father and father-in-law both grew up in good,God-pleasing homes (Catholic and Baptist, respectively) with no running water. Noplace in the Bible does it say, "They will know we are Christians by our indoor plumbing."

Oh, and BTW: Modern kitchens and baths in Nigeria

There are some fine toilet pics there too, to address your personal interest.

Note tagline, too.

[humblegunner]

I include you and me in a larger "us"-- could benefit from a little Remedial Christianity.

Should I find myself lacking in some particular, I can remedy that lack with the Bible.

I need not supplicate myself to some cat with broken English and cricket legs stuck between his teeth.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I assure you of my prayers.

[piasa]

The RCatholic church has changed their views on what to include and exclude over the years, most likely for the same reasons. Just because someone finds an old scroll is no reason to accept it will nilly as canonical, as if there was no such thing as fiction in the ancient world and everything written must therefore be religious, sacred and inspired... some of what has been found is only fragmentary.

I’ve read the Apocryphal books though not some of the more obscure documents or fragmentary documents, we’re not forbidden to read them, if anything inquiring about them is welcome and the pastor might even like it as it’s a chance for him to delve into Greek, but so far I haven’t seen anything in them to get excited about so I do not get the impression we’re “deprived.” There’s a translation of the Apocrypha on my shelf, contrary to some folk’s belief we haven’t held any book burnings.