broad-minded?

It was the church annual meeting yesterday. We went along to show support, and also as there was tea afterwards, and Priory do a good line in catering :-) After the usual financial review, which boiled down to the fact that we all need to up our donations slightly, we split into small groups to discuss the churches 'what we believe' statement. The group that Tim and I were in ended up having a good discussion on whether the church really is broad-minded, both theologically and in styles of worship. We ended up deciding that it is - lots of different things go on, and if people aren't keen on one particular aspect of the worship, or a particular service, they don't mind as they understand that other people are attracted by or enjoy it.

In the final discussion at the end, when all the groups came together again, we put these points across. Then one of the other groups summarised what they had talked about - which seemed to end up being a list of complaints and their dislikes about the services, with no understanding of other groups at all!

So maybe our church isn't as broad-minded and tolerant as I thought... still, we're making some friends and get on well with lots of people there, so I think we'll keep going. And we don't have to talk to any of the narrow-minded people if we don't want to... ;-)