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	<title>Comments on: It&#039;s Not Looking Good for Liberal Christianity</title>
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		<title>By: BornInZion</title>
		<link>http://afcmin.org/ateam/453/its-not-looking-good-for-liberal-christianity/comment-page-1#comment-2066</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Political liberals deny that there is true truth, so there would be little opposition from such a person to avoid uncomfortable truths of the bible in a liberal church.

Political liberalism is mostly feeling based rather than rationally based. Such a person would be attracted to the &quot;Love thy neighbor&quot; part of the Gospel and tend to downplay the Jesus is the only salvation divisiveness of his message.

To me, a blue state and liberal churches make perfect sense.
Cheers!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Political liberals deny that there is true truth, so there would be little opposition from such a person to avoid uncomfortable truths of the bible in a liberal church.</p>
<p>Political liberalism is mostly feeling based rather than rationally based. Such a person would be attracted to the &#8220;Love thy neighbor&#8221; part of the Gospel and tend to downplay the Jesus is the only salvation divisiveness of his message.</p>
<p>To me, a blue state and liberal churches make perfect sense.<br />
Cheers!</p>
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		<title>By: Tyler Watson</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tyler Watson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah. I&#039;ve heard that most denominations have been shrinking the last 50 years, with a couple exceptions. The book I mentioned stood out to me because it made a claim that didn&#039;t jive with the stats I&#039;ve heard.

The issue for me isn&#039;t whether a church is conservative or liberal, but orthodox. There are many fast-growing &quot;conservative&quot; churches that espouse and preach the Prosperity Gospel, which on certain days I&#039;m ready to call heresey. There are other examples of &quot;conservative&quot; errors, but this is one example. Also, the piece that spurred this post lists female bishops as one of the errors of liberal churches, which is understandable, since the writer herself is Roman Catholic. I gladly affirm and encourage female ordination and would not put that in the same list as other errors the author mentions -- I know that this stance is counter to many beliefs on this blog. Thankfully I, as only one person in the Church, don&#039;t get to determine what is heretical and what is orthodox.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah. I&#39;ve heard that most denominations have been shrinking the last 50 years, with a couple exceptions. The book I mentioned stood out to me because it made a claim that didn&#39;t jive with the stats I&#39;ve heard.</p>
<p>The issue for me isn&#39;t whether a church is conservative or liberal, but orthodox. There are many fast-growing &#8220;conservative&#8221; churches that espouse and preach the Prosperity Gospel, which on certain days I&#39;m ready to call heresey. There are other examples of &#8220;conservative&#8221; errors, but this is one example. Also, the piece that spurred this post lists female bishops as one of the errors of liberal churches, which is understandable, since the writer herself is Roman Catholic. I gladly affirm and encourage female ordination and would not put that in the same list as other errors the author mentions &#8212; I know that this stance is counter to many beliefs on this blog. Thankfully I, as only one person in the Church, don&#39;t get to determine what is heretical and what is orthodox.</p>
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		<title>By: Micah</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Micah]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#039;t have any statistical citations to back this up atm, but I&#039;m pretty confident that as of the late 1990s the PCUSA had lost around 2 million members since the 60s.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#39;t have any statistical citations to back this up atm, but I&#39;m pretty confident that as of the late 1990s the PCUSA had lost around 2 million members since the 60s.</p>
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		<title>By: Amy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#039;t heard of that book (and yeah, I think you&#039;re right about the description--LOL!), but I&#039;m curious.  I&#039;ve never seen any statistics that suggested the liberal churches were growing in any significant way.  It could be that they&#039;re growing, but at a much slower rate than the orthodox churches.  That would explain why they&#039;re decreasing in the overall percentage of protestant Christians.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I haven&#39;t heard of that book (and yeah, I think you&#39;re right about the description&#8211;LOL!), but I&#39;m curious.  I&#39;ve never seen any statistics that suggested the liberal churches were growing in any significant way.  It could be that they&#39;re growing, but at a much slower rate than the orthodox churches.  That would explain why they&#39;re decreasing in the overall percentage of protestant Christians.</p>
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		<title>By: Tyler Watson</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tyler Watson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m curious if you&#039;re aware of the book, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0567081737/sr=8-6/qid=1153234630/ref=sr_1_6/103-1056115-0664654?ie=UTF8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why Liberal Churches Are Growing&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, edited by Martyn Percy and Ian S. Markham? I haven&#039;t read it, but have seen it at a few bookstores and thought it would be an interesting piece for y&#039;all to have dialogue with. (By the way, the Amazon.com book description doesn&#039;t seem to match the title.)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#39;m curious if you&#39;re aware of the book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0567081737/sr=8-6/qid=1153234630/ref=sr_1_6/103-1056115-0664654?ie=UTF8" rel="nofollow"><em>Why Liberal Churches Are Growing</em></a>, edited by Martyn Percy and Ian S. Markham? I haven&#39;t read it, but have seen it at a few bookstores and thought it would be an interesting piece for y&#39;all to have dialogue with. (By the way, the Amazon.com book description doesn&#39;t seem to match the title.)</p>
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