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Roy: Quote:“Some churches have a model where the environment and experience of the church is so inviting and welcoming that you are motivated to stay even if you do not quite buy 100% into the doctrine.”
Yes, and many of our leaders would scoff at those churches as commercialized, materialistic, and consumer-driven. Nope, it’s gruel for breakfast, lunch and dinner to some of our leaders and members.
I don’t see the church backing off the “one true” narrative and the related authority narrative at all. Interestingly we had a discussion in SS a few months ago that ended in this very point – the only thing the church really has is authority. (Yes, I do sometimes go to SS!) While I did contribute to that discussion, I was not the one who directed it to that conclusion, in part because I doubt the authority actually exists or needs to. Nevertheless, I can’t seem to find any other claim the church has to make it relevant and I agree with the conclusion reached by the group. If we were to go to any other model we would be no different than any other church, except for perhaps the BoM. Early missionaries led with the BoM, not the apostasy/restoration narrative, and they did meet with some great successes. I’m not sure leading with the BoM today would be any more effective than what we do now. hawkgrrrl wrote:Roy:
Quote:“Some churches have a model where the environment and experience of the church is so inviting and welcoming that you are motivated to stay even if you do not quite buy 100% into the doctrine.”
Yes, and many of our leaders would scoff at those churches as commercialized, materialistic, and consumer-driven. Nope, it’s gruel for breakfast, lunch and dinner to some of our leaders and members.
But always with the promise of steak and lobster if you just had enough faith to be sufficiently thankful for your gruel.
Yes. Cornerstones are hard to remove without destroying the entire building.
Having said that, the tolerance/acceptance of other churches and religions button is being pushed much more frequently and explicitly now than in the past. I see an effort at a degree of balance in that regard I didn’t see in my childhood and early adulthood.
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