A New Vision.

I am typical of my generation- the Baby-Boomer Generation.

And I have a good idea of why my generation don't go to Church.

When I was 13 I decided not to be confirmed into the Christian Church.

What I said to my grandmother was: "I don't believe it."

What I meant by that was I didn't believe that what the Church was teaching was what Jesus said and did at all.

And so I did not reject Jesus or God but the Church.

And I began to search elsewhere.

This led to investigations of mythology, astrology, eastern religions, and yoga.

With mixed success.

Indeed I experienced some psychic problems in the process.

Later I was to realize that these problems were the result of the rock music which my generation constantly listened to. 

And so I returned to the Church.

I was fortunate enough to find a relatively progressive Church in the Uniting Church in Australia.

This Church was open-minded enough to accept my gay sexual orientation and in fact addressed the issues of gay ordination and gay marriage.

This was at the height of the AIDS crisis and in the midst of extreme fear and hostility in society, especially in some Churches.

But the study of Progressive Christianity reconciled my views with an acceptable, if alternative, form of theology in this Church.

And so I believe that the old teaching of the Church is dying.

But I also believe that God is doing a new thing.

And this new revelation is in harmony with my liberal views and my study of astrology.

And so it is not expedient to throw out the baby with the bathwater - to reject God and religion altogether - but to embrace the new vision of God that is emerging now.

This is the future of religion in our world.

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