causticus | (Reply)

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It has not happened to my current church yet. But I've seen it in the churches I grew up in... you get to where you have an instant urge to punch someone on hearing the word "dialogue". That is what they say when they want to get a foot in the door. We should have a dialogue about this. Next thing you know, they're sixty percent of whatever your national church governing body is (because normal people don't have the time to do that stuff), and it's game over. People realize what's going down about two years too late, the remaining 25% of parishes fracture off into their own new denomination, but they lose all their assets and real estate in the divorce, because the "Let's have a dialogue" folks had lawyers combing through all the church paperwork the day after they were sworn in...