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Originally Posted by AnthonyB
Maxel,
Thanks for your post, I'll try to digest it.
I visited a LDS chapel about a month ago, (trying to get a copy of BoM). One of my initial impressions was how american it felt. (I have also often got the same impressions from some pentecostal churches I have visited.) The pictures were very reverent but I doubt a Pro Hart would feel right placed on the walls and the place very spotless but the colour scheme felt like a US mall. I can't help feel that you "one true church" might just be a tad monocultural for me to feel really at home..
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You went to ONE LDS chapel and from that single experience you arrived at the ground-breaking and generalized opinion that it is a very "mono-cultural" church?
I got your bias. I suggest some travel beyond your borders but I suspect you made up your mind long ago.
I would like to point to the fact that your assumption about Paul's letters being first is because he is "speaking" to the world or the outside boundaries of the church is not accurate. Paul wrote 13 out of 21 books in the NT. They are ordered according to length and Hebrews at the end of his epistles since the early Christians could not agree on authorship. Nothing to do with the potential audience.
If ALL you have to say about the church relates to the aesthetics of the building and your inability to feel "at home" in a specific building, it rather points to your possible spiritual homelessness. Just a thought.