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Originally Posted by Freedom
I'm not one of those who really has a position on what would be a "normal" amount of meetings, I just know how much is too much.
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Overall, I agree. But even among the old folks where I am now, they are having quandaries over the lack of a Sunday evening service and the end of Wednesday services. Some still have things for kids on Wednesdays, plus choir practice and things like that (if they still have a choir). But it is mostly down to one large meeting a week. Plus small groups for some.
And I am not sure that this is a bad thing.
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Originally Posted by Freedom
The even bigger concern I have is what are these LC meetings accomplishing?
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I think the biggest impact is isolation from everyone else in the world. Not just physically, but also in isolationist teachings.
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. . . somewhere a long the way I got the idea of the Christian walk being something "cooperate".
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And there surely is a "corporate" aspect in which we "cooperate." But this is mostly about the unity that Jesus talked about. And it was supposed to be visible to the world, not hidden behind walls where there is no visibility into the Christian life, and where the rhetoric is about how "we" are not like those other poor Christians who we are not going to cooperate with or do corporate things.