brotherAlexandros wrote:
I will have to echo that friend, and with 30,000 plus (early 2000 number I believe) churchs and more every day the problem will not ease away over night.
Yea I can appreciate it. Having studied a variety of protestant theologies is a headache. I once took a class on history of American religions and basically unless you are talking about one of the main groups, lutherans, baptists etc... you have almost no hope at following the score of the whole game. At best you may nail down a few pitches.
And even when you do nail down a particular church, the guy in charge retires, quits, gives up, is outed, whatever and the new guy believes and teaches something new and often different all over again.
The one I always find funny is when the spirit tells a group to build lets say a gym and all of a sudden their church grows and isn\'t it wonderful we have all these new converts. But when you look at statistics all they did was take people from another church up the street.
Then they wonder why the people aren\'t dedicated, well duh what do you expect when they \\"convert\\" for aesthetic reasons. You get people who tend to be superficial.
Not exactly the Orthodox way.
And that was a bit of a rant, and was wrong of me, sorry.
