Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.
My point was if the methods do not change you will not get far. The MESSAGE does not change but the METHODS better or else you will be ineffective.
Tell that to the churches that have grown through the pandemic because they stayed open. Faithful leaders lead, they don’t cower.
no they can grow and use different methods as well. Online (think zoom) Small groups would allow in person gathering and social distencing small groups are sometimes better any now in some respects What do you think would happen if you tried to reach today's youth with the METHODS of 100 years ago no tech or anything I am telling you you would be nearly as effective and I am saying that as a young person who has about refused to go to a church that is LITERALLY dying out. I was NOT keen on going to a church where my aunt and uncle ( now each in their early 60s are some of the youngest members T and G BOTH know that only way to get me to their church is about kicking and screaming. In fact that church is down to be 30ish members most of whom are probably pushing at LEAST 70 ( usually more.
You are thinking like the world. There’s a saying that what you win them with is what you win them to.
so you are trying to tell me that it is a good thing that churches are closing their doors and DYING out ( sometimes literally) because younger people favor different set-ups ( remember I did not say the message change, but the METHODS BIG difference. The message is the gospel the methods are how you go about getting it out and the tools you use.
Yes, I’m saying it’s a good thing. The church never grows by fancy marketing and programs. It grows with faithful leaders who preach the gospel, and it really grows under persecution. Just look at the churches in Canada whose pastors were arrested. They have grown tremendously.
Well that would be great the fact is that they were arrested and that was because they chose to not follow safety rules INTENDED to help people live ( would Jesus not want people to live?
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
I still fail to see what about closing the actual church doors ( while having other options is not obeying God. For example our church currently has three options for the service there is the in person option at 11AM each Sunday in the main building, you can listen on the radio (This requires being in the church parking lot as it will not pick up off the property or you can wait and listen online a week later ( so for example tomorrow the message for 9-25-21 will be posted. For a time they offered community groups (usually Sunday school on zoom until they were comfortable holding them in person again. ( with that though currently in person is the only option so the people who choose to use the radio parking lot option do not have community groups.
You don’t see because there’s so much of the church today that’s ignorant of what the Bible teaches. It’s not your fault.
Isn’t that what Lurch said, on the Addam's Family “You Rang”
Interesting that a character of not much renown except that he was an Ephraimite in part of the cast of change during Hannah times as the man who claimed to better than 10 sons.
Yes, but the smaller the group the fewer people there is to spread it and the more likely those people can space out more to cut down on that chance.
You can be convicted of involuntary manslaughter if a person made a choice though. It depends on the other facts of a particular case, but involuntary manslaughter involves a person taking an unreasonable risk to human life and basically not taking steps to prevent death.
