WWJD on the Freedom Trail?
By adamg - Thu, 03/10/2005 - 7:12pm.
Boston Church Plant is a Weblog by students at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas, who are moving to the Boston area next summer to start a church. On the profile page, the students explain why they chose Boston. Says one:
... Last spring break (03) Taylor, Meg, and I went on a campaign to the Boston area. This got me hooked. I was so amazed by the lack of Christianity there that I knew church planting was what I wanted to do. ...
Another student, a Massachusetts resident, says:
... The culture, history, and scenery are just some of the things I love about Massachusetts; but the people here are definitely starved of the Truth of God's Word. ...
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Well then!
Call me crazy, but this just made me laugh out loud. I love this. I absolutely love this. Sure, c'mon over, we Godless heathens look foward to a good Church planting.
How does one visit a major city for a week and determine there's a lack of Christianity? Oh, you mean *your* flavor of Christianity.
Good luck with that then, morons.
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HEE!
Um, jinx?
Look, we have to keep tabs on
Look, we have to keep tabs on these yahoos. I say you join their church when they get here, 'kay?
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Heh...
Do you know how much FUN we could have doing this? ;o)
Actually, I do truly enjoy chatting with thinking Christians about how our religions are similar and different and about the meaning we get from our various traditions and liturgy.
It can be fun for a bit to talk to the ones who appear to not have read the Bible and who are just idiots about it. But it gets really sad really quickly actually.
Wow, sounds like you are a mu
Wow, sounds like you are a much better person then all of these slobs. Way to go, support that diversity!
Hmm...
OK, so, yes, Boston probably has fewer fundamentalist God-fearin folks than most areas, at least those of the White persuasion. But I think it has one of the bigger percentages of people who are of some type of Christian (at least culturally, I don't necessarily mean practicing) of pretty much everywhere in the U.S. except for Utah. They should at least use the terminology that they mean.
one of the bigger percentages of people who are of some type of
You must be the one who informed them as such in their guestbook.
HEH!
I actually wasn't. Glad to see others have though.
Please Don't Knock On My Door
One of the best things about moving back to New England a couple years ago was the sudden lack of proselytizing Christian ministries I saw around me.
hahahahahahah
hahahahahahahahaha...
whew...
heh.
heh heh.
PLEASE knock on my door. i need the entertainment.
Fortunately, my doorbell's broken
So they won't be able to tell me about their imaginary friend.
No churches in Quincy ?!
From that blog:
"Yesterday the team toured the suburb of Quincy in Norfolk County. It borders Boston proper on the south, and is at the end of the T's Red Line, so it's very convenient to the city. It's reasonably priced (as far as Boston is concerned), has a pleasant atmosphere, an awesome pedestrian-friendly downtown with all kinds of neat stores, a good mix of potential jobs (including tech jobs), a good number of available multi-family housing units, there are no existing congregations in the town, and it is growing at a good pace."
I'd love to know how they managed to miss all of these.
Also, when planting a church, do you use bulbs, or seeds?
I suspect they mean ...
No existing EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF OUR DENOMINATION congregations ...
I was a bit weirded out by th
I was a bit weirded out by that statement at first, but I think what they mean is existing congregations from their *denomination* (Churches of Christ) of which there currently are none in Quincy (though there are some nearby). Also note that Churches of Christ are not to be confused with the United Church of Christ, which is found in pretty much every town in New England (usually also known as Congregational churches).
Also, I think it's funny that they chose Quincy, which is home to one of the biggest Christian colleges in the Northeast. I think they'll find that they are largely duplicating existing efforts.
Anyway, I wish them much luck... they're going to need it around here.
Say, Adam ....
Do you remember this discussion ?
Doh!
No, of course not, I have a mind like a sieve (I try hard to forget threads that devolved into gay bashing, like that one did). Nice to know, though, that so many people are working so hard for our salvation, eh?
Not In My Backyard
I can't believe it. Apparently the religious wackos aren't satisfied with spreading crazy religiousness in the red states anymore. For some reason, a group who descibes us as "starved of the Truth of God," is coming here to "plant a...
Boston: On a mission
Apparently, Boston is deeply in need of salvation and the kids from Harding University are hardly the only ones hoping to spread the Gospel among us non-believers.
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