Typepad had a systemwide glitch on Wednesday, June 12. If you posted a comment yesterday it may have been lost. I only know of two lost comments — one by me and one by James — and as far as I know they can’t be recovered. Sorry.
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Pleased as I am to see Typepad (or anybody else at that) smite Jimbo’s comment, I hope he posts it again. I had a pretty good smartypants response for him.
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Weird. Your generation before post says it has 4 comments but I only see two. Is Jimbo’s pernicious comment lurking in the bushes?
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Is this Jimbo referring to me? I notice my witty and profoundly wise reply has been knocked off, and I can’t quite remember what it was about. Probably a rebuffal of John’s silliness. Something along the lines of stop looking at the past through rose-tinted spectacles, John. Or ‘get real’ or something clever like that… whatever. I’ve got one week left at work then I’m on ‘summer leave’ for six weeks! yay. When do you all break up for the Summer? (grin)
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It was a lot of rubbish about how the world collapsed because people weren’t evangelised enough and how their needs weren’t being met [cough gag].
I had prepared this reply, but the same glitch that killed yours wouldn’t let me post mine:
Rubbish, Jim. Let’s see you stick to your story.
Tell us St. Paul screwed things up with the Church at Corinth. Tell us “things wouldn’t have collapsed so suddenly” (necessitating that first letter to ’em) “if everything had been okay” when he left in the first place.
It was systemic. Like Adam and Eve. They went off sinning as soon as they thought God wasn’t looking. So go for it. Tell us “for some reason, they werent satisfied. Their needs were not being met, they weren’t being evangelised”.
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What absolute rot. I never ever ever said anything so stupid as ‘their needs were not met’. Do you not know me by now? I’m really not into the comfy ‘me and my fluffy personal Jesus’ Christianity. Please.
But I do stick by my claim that problems come because of the lack of evangelisation. And I’m not talking evangelISM here – the standing on a street corner with a mega-phone “get saved here” thing. I’m talking the very kind of stuff St Paul did. His letters – indeed his very life – was a work of evangelisation. Proclaiming, exhorting, encouraging, rebuking, in the Word of God. Bringing Christ, making disciples of all nations. NOT – as you seem to think – writing people off for being stupid and thick and not academic enough to understand the Faith so not worth the effort. The Church has lost disciples and people – Catholics too – are flocking to the Protestant Church becuase there they see that Christ is alive. There they see people with intigrity, preaching teh Word with signs and wonders like the early Church – like the apostles of Christ. And yes – you could say that in a way their needs are being met – they need Jesus. We all do. And they need to know Him in the Word too. they need to see Him in the Family of God, and they need to hear the Truth. Their – our – hearts are restless until they find God, and they’re leaving the true Church becuase nobody is preaching the gospel to them – either in word, or in deed. And who can blame them. Evangelisation is crucial. And if we don’t do it – the protestants will. And good on ’em.LikeLike
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You did say their needs weren’t being met. It’s why I seized upon the opportunity so gleefully and was so disappointed your comment went away and that it wouldn’t let me add mine.
Anyway, I don’t worry about protestant denominations. They will steal a few here and there but taken as a force in society they are a joke.
They will never win the culture war and they will never command the intellectual prowess to convince anybody serious about anything. They will tend (until their demise) toward humanism and weird permissive liberalism.
The current trouble with Catholicism, the most nearly-fatal flaw in the modern Church, is that we are living out a lie in the liturgy. While that goes on, like the protestants, we can bring in new members with enthusiastic evangelisation, but eventually the fact that the program contradicts itself is going to come out. And so it has.LikeLike
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