The symmetry between the Paul and Barnabas story and todays CRC challenges is attractive. However the conclusion that after a split denominations are stronger is not based on current or past history. A quick google search shows that fractured churches like fractured bones are weaker than before the fracture. An empirical study on the results of denominational splits needs to accompany this conclusion.
“And so perhaps, it is not so much that the CRCNA is falling apart at the seams, but rather that it is experiencing the growing pains that come before it will experience any real growth. And this growth will only occur after the CRCNA separates into two different denominations that go on to live out the special missions God seems to have assigned each of them to do. ”
Posted in: Peaceful Separation: Paul, Barnabas, and the CRCNA
The symmetry between the Paul and Barnabas story and todays CRC challenges is attractive. However the conclusion that after a split denominations are stronger is not based on current or past history. A quick google search shows that fractured churches like fractured bones are weaker than before the fracture. An empirical study on the results of denominational splits needs to accompany this conclusion.
Posted in: Peaceful Separation: Paul, Barnabas, and the CRCNA
Elaine,
Your paragraph,
“And so perhaps, it is not so much that the CRCNA is falling apart at the seams, but rather that it is experiencing the growing pains that come before it will experience any real growth. And this growth will only occur after the CRCNA separates into two different denominations that go on to live out the special missions God seems to have assigned each of them to do. ”
I interpreted real growth with stronger.
Gary