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Fighting Errors in the Modern World / Re: United Methodists Divided
« Last post by SimpleMan on Today at 09:43:48 AM »This kind of thing has been going on throughout the entire Protesphere for forever. Even the "traditional/conservative" Prot churches (i.e. Lutheran LCMS) are going with the "Church Growth" model, turning Church into little more then a growing corporation. All... Including Vatican 2... Have seem to have lost God as its focus.
Many Protestant congregations are essentially circles of family and friends who have known one another forever and who "go way back" in the community. A Protestant typically doesn't remain Anglican, or Methodist, or Lutheran, or what have you, based upon deep theological conviction and militant defense of that denomination's tenets to the exclusion of other denominations, but because "they were raised that way", again, often a family thing. So what you have now, is members of these families or social groups "coming out as gαy" (or whatever), and it becomes a case of "we love them so much that we have to find some way to accommodate them", trying not to split the congregation or the family, and maintaining social respectability and those all-important ties. Your garden-variety (for instance) Lutheran can't even consider the truth of the claims of Catholicism, because that would mean, in a way, leaving their family and their upbringing.