I found this editorial by George Will very interesting about the decline of the Episcopal church in America. In particular, his conclusion struck me as poignant:
As the church's doctrines have become more elastic, the church has contracted. It celebrates an "inclusiveness" that includes fewer and fewer members.
It is an interesting principle to consider - how can one effectively abide by principles he believes in in a way that does not demean or alienate those that see the world differently, while not diluting institutions that advocate those principles to the point of irrelevance. This seems to me to be one of the primary contemporary challenges of churches, political parties and other philosophical vehicles.
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very well said. I think as a church one of the signs of its truth is that it is unyielding to its standards, because if God is the "same, yesterday, today and forever" then His truths must remain constant...and the church He leads must adhere to those truths or He must abandon that church
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