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Originally Posted by OP_Carl
You are poking around very close to the root of the problem: Just as the church in the United States struggles with lukewarmness and hard-heartedness due to our material prosperity, so also do the sinners in the U.S. have material prosperity to drown out their heart's desperate cry for God.
The bible method for spreading the Gospel was word of mouth. Madison avenue recognizes that products can succeed or fail, and businesses can grow or shrivel, due to word of mouth.
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When i was in the restaurant business we were told that if someone didn't like things they would tell 10 people, but if they liked things they would only tell 4 people.
many times when people ask where I go to church and i tell them they say stuff like "ooo, I hear you guys are strict" or " I hear you people can't wear makeup, or smoke, or drink beer" once someone told me " I'll never go there, I heard that they made a 14 year old girl cry because she smoked", and it's always " I heard, I heard , i heard blah blah blah" , but I always ask them to come and see for themselves what were about. Anyways I guess that statistic goes for churches too. Sometimes I get positive feedback, but mostly people I hear about the so called "bad " things.
BTW, I am a member of an awesome church and have a wonderful pastor.
ARPH
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