Watered Down Message Washes Out Attendance

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Read an interesting piece on the decline of "Liberal Christianity". It goes into some specific causes for the failing of the "church of the future" and it doesn’t get preachy – it just points out the actual result of the changes in doctrine.

The results are not surprising. I have been saying for years that those that seek to water down (tone down, whatever) the Christian to make it more "seeker friendly" – and therefore increase attendance/membership – are completely missing the point of "seekers".

Consider this: If you are seeking purpose and meaning in your life and decide to go check out Christianity. You go to church to discover that everything acceptable outside the church is also acceptable inside the church. Why would you stay? What’s the point of joining something that is in no way different from your current life? What could it possibly change in your life?

Liberal Christianity is paying for its sins

"…Embraced by the leadership of all the mainline Protestant denominations, as well as large segments of American Catholicism, liberal Christianity has been hailed by its boosters for 40 years as the future of the Christian church. Instead, as all but a few die-hards now admit, all the mainline churches and movements within churches that have blurred doctrine and softened moral precepts are demographically declining and, in the case of the Episcopal Church, disintegrating…

…You want to have gay sex? Be a female bishop? Change God’s name to Sophia? Go ahead…

…When a church doesn’t take itself seriously, neither do its members… "

Thanks Jeremy

Oceanview Running

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Today I set out to up my speed on my run, so I went for a shorter faster run out on the bluffs overlooking the Pasific.

  • Run 1.99miles – 18:57 (9:31pace, 299cals)
  • Cooldown .79miles 121cals
  • Pushups: 60
  • Situps: 200

Navy Training

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I went on quite the scenic run today… along a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean here in San Diego.

  • Run 3.04miles – 31:01 (10:11 pace, 445 cals)
  • Cooldown .85miles, 143 cals

Housing Boom Levels Off

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Another article about "the end of irrational exuberance" in the housing market. This one is more rational with less gloom and doom and more reality check. Not only for the excited home owners, but also the 250,000 new realtors wanting to cash in on the boom.

During the boom’s peak from 2002 to 2004, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) saw memberships soar 26 percent. Today, over 1.2 million Americans call themselves Realtors.

While many thought a real estate license would be an easy way to make money – most are learning the opposite. Like any commission job, there is more to sales than showing up. And even with the right sales techniques, it can take a while to buildup your sales pipeline.

The NAR reported in 2005 that those who have been in the business for two years or less had an average income of only $12,850 a year. Long-time brokers – those with at least 26 years of experience – had an average of $92,600.

Thanks Dre