tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7349070.post4917447502727474113..comments2023-08-29T05:36:46.228-06:00Comments on cyber spirit cafe: Youthful enthusiasm (Sunday Reflections for March 13, 2011)Doug Kingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12830571125611956474noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7349070.post-22142267459305560992011-03-30T20:14:38.111-06:002011-03-30T20:14:38.111-06:00I would like to ask Michael SC:
1. What suggests...I would like to ask Michael SC:<br /><br />1. What suggests that Jesus was all about religion, in some form or other?<br /><br />2. What suggests access to God was high on his agenda?<br /><br />3. Why should the church offer new and attractive things - I have a sports center, restaurants, movies, tv,the internet, a local college. I have access to way more than I can use already.<br /><br />4. Why was Paul doing community organizing? Because he had a thing about kosher food regulations?<br /><br />If traditional church's solutions are being questioned left and right, why are we still fixated on traditional church's definition of the questions?Peter Kanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08964049793728934851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7349070.post-74231304402117292452011-03-21T13:29:56.115-06:002011-03-21T13:29:56.115-06:00Be sure to read the woman’s original post at her b...Be sure to read the woman’s original post at her blog site, and the interesting comments. It was posted Nov 2010 and is still receiving comments.<br /><br />I think the church’s style can be reshuffled, but unless someone believes the traditional concepts of God, sin, and salvation [and the rituals and the more-or-less constraining moral standards that go along with that] it’s hard to see why they would give up a few hours on a Sunday to attend church. Many people think that modern knowledge has let the supernatural cat out of the bag. Community? Yes, but you can also get that in a gym, work friends, hobby clubs, or elsewhere.<br /><br />In my current reading on the historical Jesus I am trying to figure out just what was the essence of Jesus’ ministry that made people want to follow his approach to religion… presumably they had already been following some conventional form of Judaism… so was Jesus offering access to God without the baggage of all the ceremonies and rules [or is that a NT caricature]? Today, people already have full freedom, and if people want to access God, they think they can do that through prayer or meditation in their own places (with friends or alone). So, from the perspective of a modern person is not already committed to the creeds, what new and attractive thing does the church offer?Michael_SChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14179192580620356545noreply@blogger.com