Lash wrote:real life wrote:Chumly wrote:real life wrote:Churches get a very bad reputation when they let imperfect people join.
Must be a lot of perfect people that in essence would then not require Christian religion being perfect and all they could not share in original sin.
As Lucy Van Pelt would say: Don't you know sarcasm when you hear it, Charlie Brown?
The inference that all of the people in churches are equally responsible for the crap that goes on in them is why I took issue.
That's not true. And, it's why a great many people leave churches.
hi Lash,
You've apparently just been thru a very bad church split, and it's painful. I know, I've been there too.
It's a shock to your system. You're sitting in what you think is a nice church when, BAM ugliness explodes all around you and you think 'where did all this garbage come from?'
It's very publicly ugly and people do leave church altogether over these things.
But my point is also that people leave churches everyday in 1's, 2's and 3's and nobody seems to notice if it's not a big hullaballo. They just leave silently never to return, and it's usually because they are offended over something that someone does, says or believes.
There are no perfect churches, or perfect people and I think it does us good to admit that we are part of the problem.
Whether we realize it at the time or not, we have all probably said or did something that offended someone who never came back.
We thought we were right at the time. So did the one who left.
That's kinda the point.
As long as you let sinners join the church, it'll continue.
