[Magdalen] M/C - verger - "praise and worship leader"

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

This reminds me of Union Theological Seminary, which began as a
Presbyterian seminary, but gradually morphed into something quite
different. Not bad, just quite different. Good people.


James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 7:53 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

> >>>For churches that choose to have worship and praise leaders and
> pastors, go
> for it.  Just don't call yourself 'Episcopal' with a straight face.<<<
>
> When our local Presbyterian church (a deeply historied thing in Salinas,
> with nothing but good things said about it -- I was even a member there for
> a very short period of time after I got saved from the SoBaptConv) re-made
> itself into a mega-church with no resemblance to the original, even in its
> "traditional" service, and had ever-growing disputes with the San Jose
> Presbytery, it at least had the decency to totally remove any use of the
> word "Presbyterian" from its existence (other than "formerly First
> Presbyterian Church" in small print when and only when needed) once it
> joined http://compasschurchmc.com/ .  (Reason given by the pastor in the
> Monterey County Weekly a few years ago?  Seems the Presbyterian Church USA
> no longer follows Jesus Christ in the pursuit of salvation.)
>
> M J (Mike) Logsdon.
>
> "Aaugh[.]" -- Charles Brown.
> "Avoid dull needles and use a soft cloth." -- E Kovacs.
>