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Originally posted by The Raven:
I question my COC preacher relative about the church's belief of it only going to heaven. After a short heated disagreement, I asked him if his church regularly sent money/missionaries to foreign countries to save souls, and he said yes of course they did. I then asked him why don't they just stay here(USA,Alabama,Florence) and save the Baptist, Methodist, Catholic, Jews.....etc)?
He didn't have an answer.
Any statements from the COC clergy here on this subject?
Well done, I'm going to remember that one!
That was the wake up call for me when I was in CoC as a kid. I found out one of my friends was a Baptist and I felt like just told me he had cancer or something. That's when I first started to suspect something was wrong with that atmosphere.
As for mission trips, that's another peeve of mine. How much charitable work will a group of high schoolers do in the Cayman Islands? I'll contribute to a trip where people are helped and an area is left better than it was found, but I'm not donating to a church/senior vacation.
A group of high school kids from my church are going to Hati this year, I'm debating going with them. Not sure if my wife will be cool with it.