tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2949422246633548404.post3290666596014152233..comments2024-02-07T11:31:44.141+03:00Comments on On Life in St. Petersburg: More about seekersElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15283395756742923658noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2949422246633548404.post-62596720937401957342009-03-28T14:56:00.000+03:002009-03-28T14:56:00.000+03:00I find myself turned off by church services that s...I find myself turned off by church services that seem to run TOO smoothly. I mean, that are too performance-oriented. I suppose there is a different between being disorganized and running into glitches that you couldn't have predicted.<BR/><BR/>The doctor analogy is interesting. The message (medicine) must, of course, be intact for it to work. Otherwise you are dealing with a false prophet more than with a church leader who simply has some human weaknesses.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15283395756742923658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2949422246633548404.post-89086603387360091502009-03-26T23:20:00.000+03:002009-03-26T23:20:00.000+03:00He was really speaking of the priest at Mass, but ...He was really speaking of the priest at Mass, but a friend's image is also good for "church" in general....though the doctor be an unkind, even immoral person - the medicine he gives can still cure.<BR/><BR/>I noticed this past year, during a time when I was feeling very hurt by the Church, that I was stumbling in getting to Mass.....somehow I'd mis-read times and such. And when I went to church, I'd choose to sit in the back (me! I'm ordinarily a front row girl.) I wasn't even initially cognizant of the fact that these things weren't whim or accidents.Anniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12623179886908222942noreply@blogger.com