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Thread #68750 Message #1161334
Posted By: IvanB
13-Apr-04 - 08:52 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost
Subject: RE: BS: The Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost
Years back I read an account by a woman who, with her teenage daughter, made a canoe trip on Canada's MacKenzie River. Way out in the boonies, when they hadn't seen another human for weeks, a young missionary couple showed up. As their story unfolded, it turned out they had come originally from a church in Ohio named "The Believers of Christ." There'd been a squabble in the congregation and it was split, with those who left calling themselves "The True Believers of Christ." A couple years later, the inevitable squabble and another split. Thus, this young couple were now proselytizing for "The Only True Believers of Christ."
I got a bit of a chuckle from it but it's all too indicative of human group dynamics whether in religion or any other setting.