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purple hayes
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 Posted: 08/04/03 - 15:30 Post subject: Church membership?
Are you a member of your church or just a regular attender? Why or why not?
If you are a member, what did you have to do to become one.
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jrjo
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Posted: 08/04/03 - 15:33 Post subject:
I'm a member and reg'lar. Had to get dipped (baptized). 
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elkid
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Posted: 08/04/03 - 15:38 Post subject:
No. Once upon a time I was a very active Presbyterian - elder for 3 years, Sunday School teacher for 5. The Paramedic was pursuing a career in the ministry as a Lutheran. Despite getting his master's in divinity, he chose not to go into that career. Very glad he made that decision.
Long story short: through my experience and through his, I've seen the church from the inside, as well as the outside, too well. Didn't like either view, so I no longer support organized religion. My church is now that of the roads.
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kattzoo
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Posted: 08/04/03 - 15:40 Post subject:
I am a member of our church. I had to attend a pastors class, have an interview with a member of the church staff (more like a hi, any questions type thing) and then be presented to the church (as in coming to join us today is...). If I wasn't already baptized, then that would have been done then.
I became a member to show my commitment to this church, and to become further involved. My husband is a regular attender. I have doubts he will ever join, but that's fine with me.
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bonobo
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Posted: 08/04/03 - 16:14 Post subject:
 Two more gallons of goat blood and I'm IN!
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Cappy
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Posted: 08/04/03 - 16:38 Post subject:
Member, since we are Catholic it was a matter of going to the rectory and filling out some forms. Not a regular attender.
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BamBam
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Posted: 08/04/03 - 17:00 Post subject:
......Not if we're going to remain members of the fastest growing religion in the world, my boy... You see, we believe... well, let me put it like this...
[sings]
There are Jews in the world,
There are Buddhists,
There are Hindus and Mormons and then,
There are those that follow Mohammed,
But I've never been one of them...
I'm a Roman Catholic,
And have been since before I was born,
And the one thing they say about Catholics,
Is they'll take you as soon as you're warm...
You don't have to be a six-footer,
You don't have to have a great brain,
You don't have to have any clothes on -
You're a Catholic the minute Dad came...
Because... Every sperm is sacred, Every sperm is great, If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate.
Courtesy M. Palin ESQ
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kattzoo
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Posted: 08/04/03 - 17:10 Post subject:
| bonobo wrote: | | Two more gallons of goat blood and I'm IN! |
Funny...when I lived in KY the membership was more of the snake handling type! (Man do I miss that state!)
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cherylpf
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Posted: 08/04/03 - 17:16 Post subject:
| kattzoo wrote: | | bonobo wrote: | | Two more gallons of goat blood and I'm IN! |
Funny...when I lived in KY the membership was more of the snake handling type! (Man do I miss that state!) |
Pew jumping too I understand  I believe you lived east of me and at a higher altitude.... 
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keltic63
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Posted: 08/04/03 - 17:43 Post subject:
member and reg'lar (inasmuch as I work for them too)
to get in, make a confession of faith, which is: answer the question that Jesus asked Simon Peter
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Soigneur
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Posted: 08/04/03 - 18:01 Post subject: Re: Church membership?
| purple hayes wrote: | Are you a member of your church or just a regular attender? Why or why not?
If you are a member, what did you have to do to become one. |
No, no and not applicable
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kristin31
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Posted: 08/04/03 - 18:08 Post subject:
I don't really believe much in organized religion per se. Every so often I go to a church that lets me sit and think, but I don't belong as a member.
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kattzoo
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Posted: 08/04/03 - 18:12 Post subject:
| cherylpf wrote: | | kattzoo wrote: | | bonobo wrote: | | Two more gallons of goat blood and I'm IN! |
Funny...when I lived in KY the membership was more of the snake handling type! (Man do I miss that state!) |
Pew jumping too I understand I believe you lived east of me and at a higher altitude.... |
Heck, at my church, we jumped the pews WITH rattler in hand...
I dated a guy from Eastern KY. (Martin Co. for the Kentuckians) and we went home for a family event one Sunday. The women had to sit in the back of the church, and there were snakes. We didn't date much longer.
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bonobo
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Posted: 08/04/03 - 19:41 Post subject:
Heh. Actually, as a teen, I was forced to go to Pentecostal church. No (legless) snakes there, but I like to play with reptiles whenever I can. :P
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crazyfrog
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Posted: 08/04/03 - 20:14 Post subject:
el kid taught sunday school?? 
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