tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16944051.post114616631562982582..comments2023-09-27T10:56:14.737-05:00Comments on A short step down from thought provoking: United Churchofficehourthoughtshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104407226034797172noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16944051.post-1146234568195336922006-04-28T09:29:00.000-05:002006-04-28T09:29:00.000-05:00Hey Lisa, I agree totally with your comment that w...Hey Lisa, I agree totally with your comment that we need to move beyond acceptance, and into challenging people to be like Christ. My! what a way with words you have :D However, I think that the tragedy of Protestantism is that we try to do the challenging before they even know Christ. I'm thinking of this quote but Brian McLaren in A New Kind Of Christian. Where Neo is talking about how the emergent church will need to be less denominational and more centered on Christ. I think that there are some real lessons for us to learn from the United church, and I think that they have a few things that they need to learn from us.... It's too bad we have this "them or us" mentality, when if we could take the strengths from the "liberal" churches and the strengths from the "conservative" churches we would come up with the sort of Church God is looking for.... but then again I could be a heretic.officehourthoughtshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12104407226034797172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16944051.post-1146184296429064082006-04-27T19:31:00.000-05:002006-04-27T19:31:00.000-05:00okay, that commercial is hilarious. I love it. ...okay, that commercial is hilarious. I love it. I wish it was for an evangelical congregation. It's so cool when christians have the ability to do something witty and good quality. You don't see that too often. While I don't agree with the stand that the united church takes on some things I do have to applaud them for their willingness to accept anyone into their congregation. Now if only they could move beyond acceptance and challenge people to become like Christ, not just be loved by him, that'd be great!Lilenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11828559178257738496noreply@blogger.com