Re: Have there been "miracles" in the last 100 years?

On 2006-09-14, Quasin <quasin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Then newcomers would be considering whether to attend the
local First church on Main Street or the local Church of the
Holy Spirit or the local Newtown Community Church, judging
each by the congregation and clergy present, instead of
judging by the name Baptist or Anglican or Assemblies of God
and whatever learned prejudice they may have about one or
another denomination.


Labels have their uses if used well. Perhaps the problem is that current
labelling doesn't work so well as in a given axis that a newcomer is
interested in there's more variation within the labels than between them.

Don't the different churches believe quite different things though? A
Church of England person may get quite a shock if they turned up at a
Roman Catholic service or vice-versa? In this way the labels can reduce
the search a bit. Long term it would be interesting if all the different
denominations mixed a bit.

Now in the Good Ol' Days it was the nearest church of the right type -
which would be in the village somewhere and there'd be only one for
miles. Maybe that's an effect of not living in towns where there are
lots of them!

- Richard

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