[Nita Nupress]

Nita, when I hear people make comments such as yours, I always wish they would actually list the NAME and ADDRESS of the church that did these things, because I’m not sure I believe it..... I think people “think” this stuff is preached.

Go back and reread the last 2 lines of #24 -- you stopped too soon.

Oh, and my church 'family' is wonderful. ;)

[kjam22]

Interesting quote from a Christian Post article on Andy Stanley’s recent “Drive” Conference: “A major reason for the decline of the church, Stanley contended, is that Christians have focused too much on policing the behavior of outsiders without looking at the inside. ‘If in the past 50 years, the church had done a good enough job policing our own behavior, then we would not be able to build churches big enough and fast enough today,’ he said, adding that the imperatives of the New Testament are addressed to Christians. ‘Who doesn’t want to be part of a community that loves one another, prays for one another, shares and cares for one another? But that’s not what comes to mind when people think of the church.’”