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Red pill or blue?

What do all the following have in common: The church building, order of worship (three hymns, scripture reading, choir music, unison prayers, pastoral prayer, sermon, offering, and benediction), the senior pastor, the sermon, the pastor’s chair, tax-exempt church status, gothic cathedrals, candles on the communion table, incense burning, taking the Lord’s Supper quarterly, the congregation standing and singing when the clergy enters, coming to church with a somber/reverent attitude, condemnation/guilt over missing a Sunday service, Elizabethan English, the altar call, the church bulletin, solo salvation hymn, door-to-door witnessing, evangelistic advertising/marketing, the decision card, bowing heads with eyes closed, raising a hand in response to a salvation message, one verse evangelism, the one hour sermon, the single bishop, hierarchical leadership, clergy and laity distinction, contemporary ordination, the title “pastor”, believers wearing their Sunday best for church, clergy attire, the clerical collar, the choir, the boy’s choir, funeral processions and orations, the worship team, the collection plate, ushers, infant baptism, sprinkling, the sinner’s prayer, personal savior, communion meal with only a cup and a cracker, Sunday school, the youth pastor, ministers of music, tithing and clergy salaries, seminary training, seeker churches, satellite campuses, vacation Bible school, children’s church, multi-media systems, church steeples, stained glass windows, the pulpit, the choir, the pew, the balcony, and concert style auditoriums? Read the rest of this entry

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