trevor wrote:
I see it being more like:
Jesus, pointing his finger: "You, you and you - follow me!" And they did. So they risked everything - and they went on to learn.
Thankyou Trevor, you're right of course, the act was very much more urgent than what i painted.
Which really pushes the urgency of this membership discussion. We need to be more urgent in the way we say "you belong to us, lets start a walking together."
I think that's a really dangerous application of the analogy, quite frankly. We're not in an authoritative enough position to say that people belong to the UCA, or indeed even *should* belong to the UCA. We can only do that if we believe that the UCA is the only right path to god. Jesus was calling the disciples to follow him, to join with him, whereas you're talking about joining the UCA. It's a vastly different matter.
And truthfully, if someone came up to me in a church and said "you ought to join, come now and fill out the forms", I'd be completely turned off. That kind of pressure is the last thing I'd want to subject myself to or appear to endorse by joining.
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