by Ed Pettibone » Wed Jul 22, 2015 9:40 pm
Michael writes in part "My point in this conversation was/is that if there are churches of only one theological leaning in a given area, and a new variant of a denominational family is interested in planting churches, why do they restrict that church planting effort to suburbia, urban areas, and college towns but leave out rural areas."
Ed: Michael, who do you expect to pick up the tab for starting a CBF church in your back yard, perhaps you? You have already said there are several little Methodist churches in your area, may we assume that there are also some SBC and possibly an independent, Presbyterian or Pentecostal maybe even a church related to one of the several Black denominations. Yea, I have some differences with each of those but if for some reason I couldn't move and there was no ABC-USA or CBF church, I would probably visit the Black church with the shortest worship time if they where cool to me, I would go to one or other of the groups listed above, all of them have folk who love Jesus and believe he arose from the grave and ascended into heaven and is coming again. And teach the 10 commandments, so I can worship with them and generally keep quiet about our differences. My tithe would go to the church where I attended and my offerings would be spread around ABC-USA and CBF entities, or maybe the other way around. The truth is some areas can not afford all the churches they have let alone something they have never experienced.