They spend all of their time passing a new policy to ensure that the one bad thing will never happen again, instead of celebrating the ten miracles of God. At the time, we had roughly eleven million members. In 1995, we had about eight and a half million, a loss of two and half million people. However, during that time our rule book, The Discipline , has increased in size. When something bad happens, we pass a rule so it doesn t happen again.
Legislation piles up while membership goes down.
Every other denomination I have checked with has experienced the same behavior. We focus on the bad while ignoring the good. Interesting . . . This is always the place to begin. Unless we re doing these two things, we can t call ourselves a church.