The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave.
Martin Luther called the church building the __undhaus_ (lit. __outh house_ or "speech house_) because he believed that the Graeco-Roman __agan lecture_ of the sophist entertainers who took over the Catholic church should be the focus of __he service_. Sermons might have been helpful in the later Middle Ages when even many Catholic priests couldn't read. However, modern research has repeatedly proven that lecturing is the worst possible way to educate others because it__ so boring. Might traditional, so-called-inspired preaching still be the best way to communicate God__ Word?_ ~ © gfp '42_
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Martin Luther called the church building the __undhaus_ (lit. __outh house_ or "speech house_) because he believed that the Graeco-Roman __agan lecture_ of the sophist entertainers who took over the Catholic church should be the focus of __he service_. Sermons might have been helpful in the later Middle Ages when even many Catholic priests couldn't read. However, modern research has repeatedly proven that lecturing is the worst possible way to educate others because it__ so boring. Might traditional, so-called-inspired preaching still be the best way to communicate God__ Word?_ ~ © gfp '42_
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