HMD, Coon & DKB recognize past failures

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Originally Posted by pelathais

I agree with you here. It would seem that the "Identity Campaign" is a complete bust before it even got rolled out.

Those who are born and raised in OP churches to "First Generation" converts tend to be better educated than their parents, particularly with regard to the Bible. If you can't "win" someone who already knows you, you've got real problems.

This part of the Bernard/Coon conversation just sounds like Amway or Pre-Paid Legal shop talk. People who have already been chewed up by multilevel marketing are the least receptive to its sales pitch. And now, the UPC faces the same burn-out?

Why not switch to a product that has been a demonstrated winner for the
past 2,000 years? One that you don't have to invent a history for?

I think the internet, social network media ... the information age has accelerated the "virus of show me that in the Bible" 1000x fold.

Couple this with Charnock's observation that new churches are by necessity more lax on the rules ... while the org is relaxing the process for new churches to be planted in various districts ... while also encouraging growth "at any cost" ... and I have to think that things will begin to loosen up by default.

Pelathais.