Soon after I moved, I found
a less traditional church.
Not exact matches
If even Luther's question was impossible for
traditional Christianity to assimilate, much
less his answer, obviously his new faith demanded a new
church.
Millenials, and all people, should spend
less time worrying about being entertained or finding a more
traditional ritual (Catholic
church not pretentious?????) and should instead be seeking what the REAL TRUTH is about God in the Bible is.
Those that I have known who have left
traditional church did so for
less noble reasons than your post describes.
So when Kim shared a small piece of her own story about leaving the institutionalized
church and connecting to a
less traditional community of believers, I mixed the well - meaning, thoughtful critiques in the comment section with some of the messages I've been getting from critics lately, and this is what I heard:
With
less than three weeks until the Pope's arrival, Chilean authorities said they were working with the Roman Catholic
Church to prepare for an onslaught of tourists at the peak of the austral summer, a
traditional time for vacationing in both countries.
As a result, black
churches likely have difficulty attracting white worshipers who are more
traditional and have a
less animated service.
What this article means» I get paid by the
church for my crappy articles on my
less than reputable websites and columns to push
traditional church attendance, You need to go to
church and shell out $ $ $, otherwise you are a millenial hippy who is going to hell»
Most of us assume that
churches have always been around, that they have always functioned more or
less as they do now, and that they have always been organized in what we recognize as a
traditional manner.
Coming as he does from a region where the
Church's validity among the poor has been damaged by the competition between the
traditional hierarchy and the
less - than - orthodox liberationists, the Pope's concern is understandable.
Sometimes the missional / emerging
church movement looks dangerously like the world around it, but at the same time, sometimes the
traditional / (dare I say)
less missional
church looks dangerously separate from the world around it.
Among the younger generation who struggle with the idea of Jesus being the unique path of salvation, it is easy to find an «out» here from actually engaging in
traditional gospel sharing... after all those on the cutting edge say «the
church» needs to talk
less and do more... «if necessary use words».
In fact, photographer Stephanie Bassos» favorite island, Sifnos, is a
lesser known destination with Greece's quintessential sandy beaches,
traditional architecture, pottery shops, more than 200
churches, and classic Mediterranean cuisine.
According to the research not only were married people more sexually satisfied than singles, but married people who attend
church weekly and married people who strongly believe out - of - wedlock sex is wrong were much more likely to be sexually satisfied than married people with
less -
traditional views.