{"id":156,"date":"2009-01-19T08:58:02","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T08:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/tonyjones\/2009\/01\/comment-of-the-weekend-4.html"},"modified":"2009-01-19T08:58:02","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T08:58:02","slug":"comment-of-the-weekend-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/tonyjones\/2009\/01\/comment-of-the-weekend-4.html","title":{"rendered":"Comment of the Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, there’s a lot to choose from this weekend.  Several of the Methodist ministers who were at the contentious conference last week weighed in on What Happened in Missouri<\/a>. Of course, it’s disheartening to read on Susan Cox-Johnson’s blog<\/a> that some in attendance didn’t think that I showed the appropriate deference to the bishop.  Meanwhile, Pete Rollins rightly calls me out for my choice of “money quote” in Stephen Shields’s Ten Years of Emergent\/ing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, I’ll choose a comment from What Happened in Missouri<\/a> by non-metaphysical stephen, and it’s a comment that should surely appeal to Pete Rollins, too!<\/p>\n

\n

Kierkegaard argued that church strength is measured in INVERSE
\nproportion to numbers: the more people claim to be Christian, the more
\nlikely it is that Christianity doesn’t exist in that culture;
\nconversely, Christianity only needs one person to exist.<\/p>\n

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