I think we have such public meetings, they are called crusades. The purpose is to help seekers hear a gospel message. The problem as i see it is we h...ave degraded the believers service to a lukewarm don't offend anyone, particularly believers meeting. It then neither serves to evangelize the unbeliever nor edify the believer. I know Luther backed away from this position under pressure...but based on what I am sensing, we need to revisit this. I have not seen the video about the young man and the church, loving Jesus but hating Church and religion. I have intentionally stayed away from it. BUT, I did read an editorial just this morning on the Wall Street Journal website that touches this.
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In The Wall Street Journal's Houses of Worship column, Jonathan D. Fitzgerald wr...ites of Jefferson Bethke's viral video, which is raising old theological disputes.
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