(August 9, 2010 at 11:24 pm)RAD Wrote: Yeah the church has big problems with boring people to death between revivals. I agree. During one of those rare events, you can't keep skeptics or backsliders from showing up.
I only know of one church in America that runs its meeting like the early church, where anybody can speak, and where at least some of the nine gifts Paul identified are common, as clearly described in 1 Corinthians. Of course during revivals like Azusa, the Chinese revival of the thirties, early Quaker meetings, etc, lots of people got to speak and it was tremndous fun. We are still stuck in the medieval "clergy-laity" system. Honestly it's stupid and unscriptural.
And one more proof of my (and Chesterton's) claim that precious few have ever tried Christianity.
Which of course proves absolutely nothing about the value of nascent Christianity, or why you skeptics shouldn't try it. Right?
"These people"
Sounds more like a "town meeting" where anyone...pagans and non-believers included can have a say at the running of the local area....oh wait...i know ...."let's get ourselves a 'parlliment / congress' "
novel idea bruce
skeptics rip xtianity apart BECAUSE they have tried it and found it wanting.....dumb bloody xtian!!
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