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#3cccJournal2TwittBook NOVEMBER 30, 1975 Sunday: Cindy and I have been going to the St. John’s Salvation Army Temple on Springdale St. 2215

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..regularly. We especially enjoy the Christian Education meeting in the morning. Our class is about ethics: 2216

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..abortion, politics and the church, technology as a threat to Christianity. This last subject was discussed 2217

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..today. Some of the older people recall how 30 years ago everyone in a community would gather at the house of 2218

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..whoever owned a radio, to hear certain programs and 40 years ago people would gather at the Salvation Army 2219

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..to hear Christian programs being broadcast. We visited Joan Madden and had a wonderful talk. Then we went to 2220

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..Bill Furrey’s place. He told us about the confusion that their small circle of Christian converts. At first, 2221

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..they naively thought that anyone who called themselves a Christian, really was. Then one of them began 2222

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..preaching the Children of God philosophy; another began believing an evangelist starting his own church, 2223

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..who was talking down the Charismatics and the other churches. We began to realize this tendency to latch onto 2224

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..the teachings of others is especially true for those have had dramatic conversions, 2225

#3cccJournal2TwittBook ..who feel a greater need to go to extremes, to get as far away from their past as possible. 2226

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