My sixth grade confirmation class included 28 kids. When I graduated from high school just 6 years later there were 8 of us recognized by the church. Perhaps the other 20 found, like Brant, that the church was boring, irrelevant, stuffy, and stuck in a language system that sounded archaic. It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown out and trampled under foot. N ow a purely scientific approach will immediately point to the error in these words.
Sodium chloride is always sodium chloride.
You can't reduce the saltiness of sodium chloride. You can dilute salt in so much water that you can barely notice it, but it is still there and just as salty. S till, we know that while not scientifically true, Jesus's words contain truth. T he prestige that we once reserved for doctors has eroded away, from malpractice suits, and the business of medicine becoming more important than the practice of medicine. Remember also that there is a whole generation of adults who have little or no memory of those events.