A Response To A Comment

Well as most of the readership here knows by now. The church my family attends was in the local paper on Saturday. If you haven't seen it yet. Go down to my post on it, i have a link to it. But there is a person there commenting. This person sounds to be the poster child for the Traditionalist Christian movement that i have ranted about many times here on this blog. Check out the comments on the papers website to see what i mean. Anywho, i decided to chime in with a couple points of my own. As did a few others from the church. But below is my response to the guy.

"Felix, Felix, Felix.I think that this ultra uber conservative mentality of people such as yourself is what is hurting our religion. Christians for years have thought that the only way to be a Christian is to move away from all things "evil" and live in seclusion such as the Amish. But if all Christians were to do that, who is supposed to reach the lost. We are commanded to go out and reach the lost.

Our savior did not sit at the local synagogue and command people to come to him on HIS terms. He went to them. He went to the prostitutes, he went to the tax collecters, he went to people. He went out in the world to talk to the world on thier terms, not his. Did he make up rules for people coming to him. Did he make people come to him at the local synagogue, on Sunday, at 11am, wearing his sunday best, singing hymns, while not "partaking" in alcohol. NO, he went and ate and drank with prostitutes. He met people where they were. To our saviour, which was more important, where a person was, or who the person would become.

As for your music comments, do some research. All of the traditional hymns that are sung in church, guess where they came from? They are, for the most part, from old tavern melodies.

It is because of this type of mindset that is keeping people away from church. Non Christians today are tired of the Do As I Say Not As I Do "Christian" mentality. So we are trying the alternative. The Come As You Are approach. Come as you are to our church. Bring your imperfections and let G-d fix them, without any man made pre-concieved notions of what you are, or how you should act.Its our job to get them into church (by any means that works) and let G-d do the rest. However the traditional thinking this to be the opposite. They feel it is G-d's job to get them to the church, then the churches job to straighten them out.

When did "Christians" lose sight of the forest for the trees?"