Recent content by justapewfiller

Your confidence in your insight that you obviously feel you know exactly what my views are from just two scenarios is amazing! Confidence is a wonderful trait. :p I am happy your traditional church is doing very well. I really am. I also think it is an over simplification to assume that...

Two true scenarios I will share.. Warning in advance this may be a little long. The first, a group of teens from one of the poorer, "bad" sections of town became interested as the results of an outreach ministry. For all of these kids, they had never set foot in a church before. To say...

What would pass for "business casual" the last time I was working in an office.. Jeans, button up or golf shirt (shirt usually untucked) and.. and I stink at describing shoes. I honestly have no idea what to call they style. But, shoes that are nicer than sneakers but not as nice as dress shoes.

You may be past this stage now - But once upon a time we had a huge donation of books. We used Handy Library to scan the barcodes or input the ISBN. Saved a ton of time as we were able just use our phones to scan books barcodes to get a catalog of what we had.

Fortunately, swords are rather rare in fights these days. But, I suppose having one would give you an edge.. ;):D Seriously though, I don't know enough about the unarmed aspects of either to answer I'm afraid.

Aikido? I have heard that it is not the best in a real fight. But, I've never crossed paths with anyone that practiced it so I can just go by what I've heard. On Judo Gene - yes, once upon a time I was acquainted with a few pro-wrestlers. Gene also dabbled in that and it was well known his...

Well, not all of the martial arts have anything to do with eastern religion or philosophies. You have to remember there are a ton of martial arts systems aside from kung-fu and karate. There are western marital arts that are for sport and/or self defense. For example, boxing, catch wrestling...

An honest question from a neophyte, on an experience with separation that I have not understood for some years. Admittedly my lack of ability to understand has bugged me for some years. So please explain it like I'm thick as a brick, dumb as a rock, stupid as a stump, etc. Because I want to...

I went poking around to see if I could find an answer to my question about what Christians feel the purpose of the church is....and I struck out on that. But - I stumbled across these statistics that were new to me, from Pew - How Global Religious Landscape Changed study (2010 to 2020)...

This one really stood out and honestly shocked me.... Did it say what the other 58% of practicing Christians thought the mission of the church was?

What are your thoughts on churches that offer split services to address this issue? For example, there is one larger Baptist church in the area that does this. The earlier service is the "Traditional" service. The pastor wears a coat and tie, the hymns are traditional hymns, etc. The message...

My thoughts... From your OP, if those 2 or 3 that are left from the original church are gathered in His name, being fed, feel led to continue the church, etc then by all means they should continue. I realize you are not talking about a building. But, I'm going to talk about a building for a...

Jerome - Thank You. This is the type of thing I was looking for. I suppose it is human nature. It certainly was with my kids, and with people in the business world and admittedly myself at times. People that are trying to get a message across as well those hearing the message tend to focus...

I am fine with women not being the lead pastor. However, I'm also fine with a lady being the head of the IMB trustees, or leading the choir, or running a community outreach (which may or may not have males what work or volunteer there) or well - many other things.

Thank you - I did not know that. I admit, I do find it interesting as the Baptist churches I've attended and the local associations have interacted with held a firm "No" on women as deacons due to 1 Timothy 3:11-12 and often 1 Timothy 2:12 despite Romans 16:1 Is this simply a case where I...