Thoughts on the last class...

November 2, 2009

We started the class off with the Jesus Prayer, which I thought was very effective. I have continued to think about it all week and especially the ‘have mercy on me’ part of the prayer during this Halloween weekend ;-)…I found the lecture interesting as always. The church was not separated from the Government and this created a lot of control. By them mixing religion with politics and the Priest with Monarchy created ‘state religions.’ Knowing this history I can understand why in American Thomas Jefferson pushed the separation of Church and State. This also brings up the point about the Visible vs the Invisible Church. People began to attend church as something to do in the culture and not because they were actually followers of Jesus. It became more of a tradition or ritual because they thought they had to do it. So if someone attended church that did not necessarily mean that they were a follower of Jesus or apart of the real and visible church, but rather the invisible.