[MEGoody]

"Churches who frighten fragile personalities into believing death is right around the corner for them and their families are doing no one a service."

In general, churches that talk about the end times stuff also remind us that, if we are in Christ, we have no need to fear (e.g. the rapture).

Not sure where your argument is coming from. Perhaps you've experienced some church or churches who don't teach the entire story as it were.

[MinuteGal]

It wasn't an argument, just an observation. I've never been to an "end times are around the corner and a ball of fire is coming soon" church....and never would set foot in one.

I've always been a member of the conservative Missouri Synod Lutheran church. We don't take kindly to hysterical apocalyptic rants from the pulpit about the end of the world.

Our pastors do prepare us for the day we meet our maker, but with faith, hope and calm, not dire, emotional and scary threats of an impending Armageddon.

Leni