https://anglicanjournal.com/how-does-size-matter/ National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Sun, 02 Sep 2018 19:23:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anglicanjournal.com/how-does-size-matter/#comment-9891 Sun, 02 Sep 2018 19:23:19 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=154500#comment-9891 Maybe both the writer and the commentator have missed the point of why larger numbers of people are staying away from attending church; There are of course several factors but neither have noted that the horrendous scandals in the Roman Catholic church caused largely by the policy of celibacy has affected all churches, for if we listen to the now most numerous agnostic advocates of sleeping in on Sunday mornings, they all complain of “Organised Religion” . It is not just the sex abuse scandals or the old “hell fire and brimstone” nonsense but how religion per se is perceived as having little to no effect on our lives, individually and “corporately”. The weird appeal of the cults and the utter ignorance of most clergy about aggressive cults like JWs is astounding. We need to get smarter and realize the importance of statements such as :”If your religion is so amazing and is doing such amazing things for the world, then it should be able to stand up to some questioning ” { Leah Remini } It`s also time to remove the moat from our eye too !!

]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/how-does-size-matter/#comment-6916 Thu, 08 Mar 2018 03:51:49 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=154500#comment-6916 Not really sure where to begin here. This article makes me very sad. Anyone who has done any reading in church sociology knows that critical mass does matter. If a young family appears on your doorstep, they are more likely to stay if they see other young families in the church. The same goes for youth. But the saddest thing about this article is that the writer does not seem to understand why we might want to share our faith with others: Not to fill pews, but to transform lives! If it were not for the Church I might have been found dead in a ditch after the death of my mother when I was 15. If not for a literal ray of light from heaven, a dear friend, now in his 70s, would have taken his own life in despair. Those of us who have been saved, blessed, and transformed by the love of God do not need to “work ourselves into a frenzy” in order to fill pews. We want to share the joy of life in Christ with others! This is our joy and our privilege.

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