Comments on: Sick of religion yet???

By: Vivien

Vivien — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:37:58 +0000

It is so sad that so many would turn like wolves on a pastor who has finally let go. But like fresh rain on those whom have been praying for it. I always think of a historical quote by a leader during the american slave trade; “we have the wolf by the ear, but we dare not let him go”…..
It is good to know that Jesus is still in control no matter what.
I say let the wrecking ball smash the building. The chips will fall where they are already falling anyway.
And we can still go to the churches, worship and feel God’s intimacy with others.

And poke when we are drawn to poke. Facebook in the trenches?

By: Cal

Cal — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:42:11 +0000

Simple -- stats show they attract two key groups of people:

(1). Those who never knew Christ and can be drawn in by a good show.

(2). Those who are so sick of the church they are looking for a place to hide as they figure out how to leave as part of the emerging church.

The first group only stays for a while -- then they end up in some other church (Often an emergent church is the target unless they just cycle through a batch of churches until they join group #2).

The second group is basically stolen sheep -- and there is an immense supply of them to pump through so they always keep the numbers up.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:52:27 +0000

We would do more good for ourselves as Christians to listen to Bob George's podcasts, read his books, have home churches and read the shovel.net than to attend traditional evangelical church services where more harm than good is frequently done, even with in most well-meaning of churches. How, then, with the statistics out there of evangelicals leaving the churches in droves, do these mega-churches with their mega-membership numbers(Willow Creek, et al.) do it? Some type of spiritual brainwashing?