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Anniebach Tue 25-Dec-18 08:52:53

As a Christian and a member of the Church in Wales I am puzzled by ‘preachers are generally better if they worked outside the church before becoming part of it’.

Priests are not brought up in some enclosed order from birth and take Holy Orders at age 18. They are brought up and live in the real world, sons and daughters of parents from all walks of life.

Thinking of priests who are friends of mine one owned a shoe shop , one was a police officer, one a maths teacher, one a probation officer, one went to university, studied theology and psychology. In my own family Baptists not Anglicans, three worked in coal mines.

Every Christian knows God is their judge , Christ has told us this and how we should live our lives .

The Book of Micah tells us

‘ he hath shown thee oh man what is good and what doth the Lord require of thee ‘ but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God’.

MacCavity2 Tue 25-Dec-18 08:40:44

Nice message,thank you.

kittylester Tue 25-Dec-18 08:30:06

Good post cindersdad

MawBroon Tue 25-Dec-18 08:07:36

Not a lot to disagree with in that cindersdad, whether Christian, atheist, Buddhist, Jew, Muslim, humanist, atheist or agnostic.

Cindersdad Tue 25-Dec-18 07:20:26

Like many I'm not sure if there is a God or not and find it impossible to have a faith as such. However I do take not of the words from the Pope and other faith leaders. The Pope's recent words on scaling back materialism make a lot of sense, thw world's resources should be used more wisely and shared more fairly.

Cultures need to be respected which is why I cannot comprehend extremism in any faith. Currently Islam extremism is doing unbelievable harm though in the past other religions have shown contempt for humanity by asserting their own exclusive monopolies to the truth.

This morning it was heartening to see the New Bishop of London in St. Paul's Cathedral and even more heartening to learn that her compassion and faith stemmed from a previous career in nursing. This got me thinking that preachers are generally better if they have worked outside the church before becoming part of it.

If there is a God then God will judge us as individuals not by our belief in God but by the way we treat our fellow man, living creatures and the planet. Politicians would do well to remember that