The pastor and parishioners at St. Michael the Archangel, a church that began serving Noblesville Sunday, are certain God has opened doors to a great future.
St. Michael the Archangel is an Orthodox Anglican church that was established in January as a mission of the Anglican Diocese of Bolivia. The mission church is the third one established in Indiana, with others in Nashville and Anderson. Sunday worship is held in the Winks Building at the Hamilton County 4-H Fairgrounds.
“We’re looking to be a church that is Bible-based, traditional, not agenda driven and a place where families can raise their children and learn about Christ,” said the Rev. Tom Tirman, pastor of all three Indiana Anglican churches.
[blockquote]”We’re looking to be a church that is Bible-based, traditional, not agenda driven and a place where families can raise their children and learn about Christ,” said the Rev. Tom Tirman, pastor of all three Indiana Anglican churches.[/blockquote]
Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing! Yes, you have discovered the secret to a growing healthy church.
This appears to have eluded the brilliant minds in the ECUSA (why I understand their leader even has a Ph.D. in Marine Invertebrates), who have determined their empty pews are the result of being well-educated, from a higher social class, and therefore having a lower biological reproduction rate, and therefore it’s entirely not their fault.
I would love to be in a church that “is Bible-based, traditional, not agenda driven and a place where families can raise their children and learn about Christ.”
Luckily, I now am. However, it is Presbyterian, not Anglican. We’ve grown from about 400-500 attenders when I first left ECUSA in 1998 to about 2,000 now (in five different services). A lot of us are refugees from other denominations like ECUSA, UCC, and ELCA. The accusation that is now thrown at us by local liberal churches is that we are “sheep-stealing.”