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People would definately learn more if they were part of the discussion
Rather than having someone just preach down to them.

posted by SuccessWarrior on August 19, 2006 at 8:27 AM | link to this | reply

RiFDaws
Most interesting, RiFDaws, thanks for the info!  I think that is the way to go.

posted by archiew on August 19, 2006 at 8:21 AM | link to this | reply

Interesting you suggest this --
several churches are beginning to do just this!  They call them small groups or cell groups ... a few are even having church in barns (like the cowboy churches)!!  The face of worship is changing all over America ... it's slow, but it is happening.

posted by RiFDaws on August 19, 2006 at 7:59 AM | link to this | reply

I think to some extenet people do...

posted by FactorFiction on August 19, 2006 at 6:26 AM | link to this | reply

Archiew

 

As I've pointed out in here ad nauseam, if everyone, Christian, non-believer and devotees of other religions, follwed Christ's adjuration to " Love they neighbour as thyeslf" there'd be no more war.

Along the way to that Nirvana, it would be a big help if church leaders stopped seeing themselves as an arm of social services, and began to address the atavistic need of humans to have mystery and magic in their lives, and to hace skilled people to mediate between them and a hostile, often inimical universe.

They could also try taking scrip and staff, and going barfefoot among the nations to preach the above message, and to beg for their daily bread. I, for one would respect them far more than I do now, seeing them living in luxury like secual princes. Oh, and speaking in the forked tongue of management speak to boot. If they ceased to do that, we might understand what they're trying to say.

Or maybe it's best we don't. 

posted by ariel70 on August 19, 2006 at 5:50 AM | link to this | reply