Not exact matches
Some of the same
churches I've been to, You left some out, tho... only if she wears a head covering... as long as she doesn't wear makeup or jewelry (wedding ring and denominational pin excepted)... no peep toe shoes, especially with toenail polish... if what she is doing gets
bigger than what the men are doing, she's out (Thats a real
big one)... only if she'll do it on a volunteer basis and never expects an honorarium, even if she speaks at the main Sunday service.
I don't want to go on and on about this but over the years I have observed that
one of the
biggest causes of ridiculous antics in the
church and the rise of various cults has been people running away with ideas about eschatological events which are nothing more
than pure imagination.
But 1,000 or 10,000 people spread out over hundreds of smaller
churches and ministries can do just as much ministry (and some of it in better ways, for the reasons you've mentioned)
than when we're all clumped together in
one big congregation.
I've known Jesus for as long as I've known my name, and still I use other people like capital to advance my own interest, still I gossip to make myself feel important, still I curse my brothers and sisters in
one breath and sing praise songs in the next, still I sit in
church with arms folded and cynicism coursing through my bloodstream, still I talk a
big game about caring for the poor without doing much to change my own habits, still I indulge in food I'm not hungry for and jewelry I don't need, still I obsess over what people say about me on the internet, still I forget my own privilege, still I talk more
than I listen and complain more
than I thank, still I commit acts of evil, still I make a great commenter on Christianity and a lousy practitioner of it.
In
one of his addresses, the then President of the
Church, Spencer Kimball, even made a
big deal about how anyone could see that the Native Americans that were missionaries for the
Church were lighter
than their non-Mormon relatives.