The "un-derailable" thread!

[ZaidaBoBaida]

Is the parish renting a place? You can downsize. Other than through births and married couples remaining in the parish, I dont see any kind of missionary outreach working. People are just not into it.

I am not sure that's true. Maybe it depends on the parish. Anyway, Barnabas Powell talks a little about it in this video:

 

[ZaidaBoBaida]

We are home, but we have to wait until tomorrow when I get off work to go pick up our fur kids. Home just doesn't feel as much like home without my little girls.

You guys are going to help peel me up off the floor when one of them dies, right?

 

[buzuxi02]

Lord have mercy! Are they sick?

 

[All4Christ]

Is the parish renting a place? You can downsize. Other than through births and married couples remaining in the parish, I dont see any kind of missionary outreach working. People are just not into it.

That's kind of sad to think. We've had the opposite experience. Missionary outreach that works well seems to include having talks at colleges, having booths at community fairs, volunteering at local food banks, reaching out to the community and more. It has been working for us, praise God, by His Grace. Orthodox missionary outreach isn't the same as many Protestant missionary outreach styles (especially Evangelical/ non-traditional ones), but it is important.

 

[ZaidaBoBaida]

Lord have mercy! Are they sick?

No. Thank God, but nobody lives forever.

 

[GoodGRACEshus]

. Does taking the thread back to 2015 derail it?

 

[Antony in Tx]

"Does taking the thread back to 2015 derail it?"

Heavens, NO!!! Remember that in EO theology we are taught that God exists outside of man's construct of time, and so just as "I have been saved, I am being saved, I hope to be saved!" it would be "the thread was not derailed, it is not being derailed, I hope it will not be derailed!"

 

[GoodGRACEshus]

Lol @Antony in Tx ...good one, I'll pay that!

 

[gurneyhalleck1]

Exactly!!! Precisely!

This thread has no linear time! In this thread Huey Lewis, Elvis, Steely Dan, the Andrews Sisters, and Run DMC all play at the same time! There is no magnetic north! Superman still has shorts, the Dukes of Hazzard could actually have socially redeemable value, there is no lint in the drier, and Seinfeld-haters are instantly shot.

It's complicated here!

We could be talking about the Doors and the Who and then instantly switch to hot topics like Hungarian Cabinet-making or the history of twine. Like I said, it's complicated!

"Does taking the thread back to 2015 derail it?"

Heavens, NO!!! Remember that in EO theology we are taught that God exists outside of man's construct of time, and so just as "I have been saved, I am being saved, I hope to be saved!" it would be "the thread was not derailed, it is not being derailed, I hope it will not be derailed!"

 

[Lazarus Short]

"Un-Derailable" reminds me of this old chestnut:

Back in the steam era, a certain local used to have to switch a lightly used spur line many, many years ago. The track conditions were horrible and the train would derail sometimes two or three times per week. Now, whenever this happened the conductor would wire in a very lengthy report. Finally, the superintendant told the conductor to make the reports as brief as possible so as not to tie up the telegraph line.

Well, the next time the train derailed (which was about two days later), the conductor sent the following message: "Train 57, off again - on again - gone again -FINNEGAN-

 

[prodromos]

I don't like Seinfe (BANG)... (muffled thump)

 

[GoodGRACEshus]

 

[~Anastasia~]

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'Nuff said, there!

 

[gurneyhalleck1]

Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld honestly were a couple of.....dsh dsh (silencer smokes...) LOL

I don't like Seinfe (BANG)... (muffled thump)

 

[buzuxi02]

Exactly!!! Precisely!

This thread has no linear time!

The above so-called spiritual advisors agree. Past, present and future maybe I can evangelize them

 

[Orthodoxjay1]

Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld honestly were a couple of.....dsh dsh (silencer smokes...) LOL

lol nice, this thread comes full circle now with a Seinfeld reference.

 

[Orthodoxjay1]

I am not sure that's true. Maybe it depends on the parish. Anyway, Barnabas Powell talks a little about it in this video:

Awesome I will check that video out once I have spare time from studying for tests, I like a lot of what Barnabas Powell has to say, when I listen to AFR.

 

[GoodGRACEshus]

 

[prodromos]

Well it turns out that Jerry Seinfeld does have one redeeming quality.
He refuses to watch Seinfeld episodes

 

[All4Christ]

So...crazy crazy day. Yesterday, I was crossing the road along a crosswalk and a small suv (my friend, actually) turned in and her drivers side mirror hit into my bad shoulder. This was on work property so now there is a boatload of paperwork, meeting with our base police officers, doctor's visits, etc etc. I didn't want to have all this happen, but it did.