Talking about armaments - Is your church a cruise ship or a battleship?

[MariaRegina]

Is Your Parish a Cruise Ship or Battleship?

Fr. Aris P. Metrakos


Some leaders of our parish spent a couple of hours with professional church consultant Rev. Dr. Roy King. Roy (as he likes to be called) put parish-based ministry into crystal clear focus. He told us that 85% of all churches are cruise ships that need to become battleships.

For the full article please go to the following link:

http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles6/MetrakosBattleship.php

[Michael the Iconographer]

The Orthodox Church is like the Battleship New Jersey. She is armed with everything we can possibly need to make it through the daily struggles of life and is strong enough to have made it 2000 years without changing the Apostolic deposit of faith.

[repentant]

The Orthodox Church is like the Battleship New Jersey. She is armed with everything we can possibly need to make it through the daily struggles of life and is strong enough to have made it 2000 years without changing the Apostolic deposit of faith.

Hey Michael, do you know where to find the Icon of the ship online? You know what I mean, the life saving ship.

[EricTheRed]

http://www.ball-wonk.com/archives/Gray-Battleship.jpg
State of the Art nuclear reactor lets it run for thousands of years without refueling

[Greg the byzantine]

Hmm I can outfit it with some awesome stuff. :idea:

[EricTheRed]

lol have fun :thumbsup:

[RobNJ]

The Orthodox Church is like the Battleship New Jersey. She is armed with everything we can possibly need to make it through the daily struggles of life and is strong enough to have made it 2000 years without changing the Apostolic deposit of faith.

With a name like the New Jersey, a battleship can't go wrong... there's a reason the t-shirts around here read:
"New Jersey-
Only The Strong
Survive!"

:thumbsup:

[Fotios]

Hey Michael, do you know where to find the Icon of the ship online? You know what I mean, the life saving ship.

The Boat surrounded by Heresies..the Ark of Salvation? I have a copy of it.

[MariaRegina]

The Boat surrounded by Heresies..the Ark of Salvation? I have a copy of it.

Please do post it.

Greg - I thought of you when I posted the OP in this thread. :D

(Boys like bigger and more expensive toys.) :D

[RobNJ]

"Talking about armaments"............

A reading from the Book of Armaments, Chapter 4, Verses 16 to 20:

Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, saying, "Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." And the people did rejoice and did feast upon the lambs and toads and tree-sloths and fruit-bats and orangutans and breakfast cereals ... Now did the Lord say, "First thou pullest the Holy Pin. Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the number of the counting, be reached, then lobbest thou the Holy Hand Grenade in the direction of thine foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it."

[Michael the Iconographer]

"Talking about armaments"............

A reading from the Book of Armaments, Chapter 4, Verses 16 to 20:

Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, saying, "Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." And the people did rejoice and did feast upon the lambs and toads and tree-sloths and fruit-bats and orangutans and breakfast cereals ... Now did the Lord say, "First thou pullest the Holy Pin. Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the number of the counting, be reached, then lobbest thou the Holy Hand Grenade in the direction of thine foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it."

"..thine foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it." :bow: :bow: :bow:

That has to be one of the greatest lines in all history!

[repentant]

The Boat surrounded by Heresies..the Ark of Salvation? I have a copy of it.

That could be it, I don't remember the name. It has Jesus and some other people in the boat (don't know exactly who) and other people standing outside of it, clergy and other's.