berrybug

Welcome to agreat forum with lots of wise people who know how to be fools too!

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Thanks.

I think that organized or institutionalized religion is obsessed with controlling who gets in and who stays out. It often sets up standards by which control is administered and those standards vary from church to church and religion to religion.

 

For the Galatians, who got in was determined by whether one was circumcised or not. The modern churches all have their own criteria by which they judge who is fit to enter the kingdom -- gender, sexual preference, education, talent, power, etc.

 

I think that our churches would do better as signposts rather than as doors. It's better to point to the kingdom rather than to set ourselves up as bouncers at the door.

 

My 2c.

 

wayfarer

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I agree. This has been the case in my experience.

My husband directed me to your site last night. I was raised in a non-instrumental Church of Christ, and have since left. I identify with a lot of what I've read here, and would like to stay. I'm not sure I'll post much, but I intend to do a lot of reading.

I'm curious which church you attended too. I react the same way to my old church.