Posted on 08/29/2013 11:06:02 AM PDT by Gamecock
I’ll save you the time. This is satire.
The irony in this is your tagline.
Old Irish saying “Big church often have small devotions”
Old Irish saying “Big churches often have small devotions”
This is satire, I hope.
Mega-church downsizes
reminds me of the Pacifica Radio station in NYC that expanded its staff and on-air “talent” with the belief that liberal New York would deliver.
All the hawking tote bags and begging for cash turned off their audience and cost them public funding too. They had to fire ALL their “news department” and on-air talent
I agree with metmom. That is the ugly church that I’ve ever seen. Our Catholic friends on the design board better check out the incense in the candles they’re lighting. :O)
OTOH....my parents use to send us to the church down the street just to get us out of the house for a bit. We never gave anything but got involved in Sunday School, sung in the choir, went to vacation bible school, etc. The things I learned through these programs played a part later in my life with my coming to know Christ. My parents never attended and my mother died with a harden heart.
One should never sell short the message of God or how God works. Freely have we receive. Freely should we give.
So true. My father took himself to the church down the street when he was in Jr High. His parents never attended. He spent his life serving the Lord. He would have never found His message at home with dueling parents and an unhappy home life. God does move in mysterious ways!
Not satire...
I fully agree. I don’t fault the children. None at all. We treat those kids the same as all our church kids. You can only hope what they hear there sticks. I am hopeful for them. It is the parents that need to repent.
See my response posted at #90.
See my response at #90.
Those things are found elsewhere.
SLC Mormonism teaches that if you do NOT have a Temple Recommend card that you will Not be spending eternity in the presence of GOD the Father.
We ain't no CULT!!!
We's the ONLY church that follows ALL of GODs laws!
--MormonDude(When would be a good time for a couple of our clean cut young folks to stop by your home and more fully explain the Restored Gospel® to you and your loving family?)
It that located in Madagascar?
“When your bottom line is saving souls, you get impatient with people who interfere with that goal,” he says.
Funny, I thought Jesus saved souls, not the church.
AMEN!
Actually, the Methodist Church actually does this type of thing but only to non-attending members.
My daughter when to church with friends down the street.
I am SURE that hers prayers were answered for her mommy and daddy.
Took a while, for me to get back on track and her mom to get on track, but we are all in church today - three separate ones, but still in “GOD’s house” somewhere.
I don’t have a problem with that one. If you never attend, why be on the membership roster?
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