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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

On the issue of acceptable creeds it would probably be possible to keep things fairly open ended within the limits of the accepted traditional norms of Christianity and Christian society. Any attempts of introducing the scourge of cultural Marxism/feminism would result in the miscreants responsible being immediately banned, and to me this should include any of the Enlightenment era equality bullshit.

That's a question I have. What is the difference between traditional Christian boundaries and an ultra-authoritarian regime like North Korea or Venezuela today? Where is any open-endedness?

[–]trident765 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A lot of church singing is cringeworthy, but the church I have attended recently has a majority of Mennonite-background members, so they know a huge variety of hymns they learned as children and can sing them very well. A traditional old-school Mennonite church I attended had a bizarre yet harmonious verbal music type of chanting that most people couldn't possibly imitate. Hence singing works very well for them. However, for a small new church, particularly one populated with those of us who couldn't carry a tune on a shovel, the singing could possibly best be dispensed with.

Yes, group singing is difficult to coordinate, and if people instead do solo singing they will probably imitate modern singers and do pitched sexual moaning, contributing to an ungodly atmosphere. But if you have an electronic keyboard it only takes one person to play piano arrangements of Bach's chorales:

http://www.csun.edu/~liviu7/500/Fall%202012/Bach%20Chorales.pdf

So a service might begin with a prayer of some sort, the preacher could expound on a historical and/or religious topic and relate it to everyday life, there could be discussion on doctrinal matters, a video on a religious topic could be watched and discussed and a meal could be eaten. That sort of thing.

In my religious community all services are done in homes (we alternate the host), and our religious services are basically what you describe in your last paragraph - minus the sermon. It's not a bad way to do things if it is a small congregation, but I think the goal should be to eventually grow the congregation to the point that it cannot fit into a house. Small congregations suck because you can't meet people through small congregations. If you are looking for a wife, the most important thing for you is to have regular encounters with large numbers of women you don't know well.

[–]jykylsin2034 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I forget what it's called but a friend once told me about this church that's basically the Catholic church how it used to be before the modern corruption and takeover from Jesuits and Jews

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There's one in the US but there's also a big one in Brazil which became really popular after the peado scandal.