Posted by:
Raptor Jesus
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Date: October 25, 2010 12:58PM
The elder's corum president axed my wife the other week if we'd be ok having home teachers over. My wife said that it would be fine if they dropped by to see how we were doing and offer assistance, but that we would not be open for any kind of "teaching."
The hometeachers contacted me last week and set up an appointment to drop by and meet us last night, and I was a little nervous about it, but I figured that best case scenario, they would be cool and worse case scenario-- I would kick them out of my house.
They came by and everything was fine. They had clearly heard and understood that teaching was not acceptable. They never asked, church never came up (other than just telling us a little bit about the ward make up), and they didn't even offer a prayer in the home that I would have had to reject.
It was a nice visit with neighbors, and after such my wife and I were talking about it and she lamented that the church would be great if it weren't a church--but more of social club. If it focused simply on the aspects of service and looking out for people, and if the leadership weren't so corrupt.
I agreed with her and said that it was very unfortunate that most members are good people who are trying their hardest to BE good people and that unfortunately the leadership is so focused on being either a business (or shouting about how CORRECT its "doctrine" is) that it really misses a lot of opportunities.
It is nice to see wards organize so quickly to donate items to disaster relief, but it is infuriating how quickly the leadership pats itself on the back for these efforts and contributes very little money at the top (the real power the church could possess) for the efforts that were really only taken by the membership. And that's just one example.
Oh well I guess.