tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9252399.post111573421033173020..comments2023-06-18T07:19:12.539-05:00Comments on Unseen Eternity: The (Fe)male ChurchChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17504548881017531837noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9252399.post-1115899272780669912005-05-12T07:01:00.000-05:002005-05-12T07:01:00.000-05:00OK. I'll say it one more time and be done. You a...OK. I'll say it one more time and be done. You are measuring the wrong thing. You are asking the wrong question. Especially the comment from Chad. You are suggesting (it seems to me) that because men tend to participate less in our <B><I>events</I></B> that there are less men in the church. Why must we perpetuate the idea that church is something so spacial.<BR/><BR/>I am not part of the church because of any gathering I attend, or any creed I espouse or and rituals I have completed or regularly practice. I am a part of Jesus' church whether I do any of these things or not. It's not about doing. It's only about being. I am in him, and so I am in the Church. That's it. You can't change that, no board of elders can change that, only Jesus can and I don't think he plans to.<BR/><BR/>So while we study the numbers at various gatherings and the demographics of all our gender specific events, the Church goes on. The Church of men and women who belong to their Father. Whose lives have been infused with his Light, not through religious behaviors, or even non-religious... but through an authentic, everyday relationship with Jesus. Every day... everywhere.<BR/><BR/>At least, that's what I think. ;-)Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17680269711748939981noreply@blogger.com