SSDD wrote:
But if we did that, those tele-evangelists will have to be a bit more thrifty when shopping for their mansions, private jets and other big ticket purchases.
An interesting observation with sufficient accuracy and likely conclusion in why ā churchesā are failing. Yet spiritual growth has taken on a more personal self study....
People are looking less to churches and leaders to help them grow spiritually, and more to other options..(within).. Look at technology and all its manipulated guidance one way of the other..If you get pulled into that narrow minded capture or you stand open to see all aspects... A vetting if you will...
Similarly, when was the last time you bought a car without completely researching it online?Or sought a Doctor out by checking him out online??
In an age where we have access to everything, more and more people are self-directing their spiritualityā¦for better or for worse.
Similarly, another characteristic of the post-modern mind is a declining trust of and reliance on institutions. Yes, For some the church associates more to an institution than the house of Worship.
I donāt actually believe thatās what a church is. I think itās a movementā¦not an institution. But many churches behave like an institution, and the āpost modern mindā instinctively moves away from it as a result.. Do they find the salvation they seek in their self study or guided awareness? Or have we moved so far away from He above that the institutionalization theory has neutered our religious principles? Is it religion or spirituality??? Fellowship strengthens....
Belief is as you see it and it is a personal choice. Whatever happens with the church, the institution, or the house of worship, is also choice, sustained or crumbled...
Change is unkind to the unprepared, so prepare...
Sorry, got off on a tangent and really do not know why, with you???