[Vocabulary] inbred church

[Maria Carolina Morais]

Hi,

could anyone tell me what an inbred church is?

Thanks!:up:

 

[Raymott]

Hi,

could anyone tell me what an inbred church is?

Thanks!:up:

A church in which the congregation was inbred? Some context would help.

 

[Maria Carolina Morais]

It's a pdf file. hope you don't mind...

https://www.google.com.br/url?sa=t&...tXuuBesmhhtIf9GNISb2ug&bvm=bv.114195076,d.Y2I

 

[Raymott]

The phrase is "inbred church associations". They are talking about networking and broadening the input of ideas, "cross-pollination". So, it's likely to refer to inbred ideas, not people. They want to broaden the "vertical authority structures".

The church is stagnating, and they want to share ideas with other congregations.

 

[Maria Carolina Morais]

Thanks, Raymott! So it could either be this or that they only have internal procriation, depending on the context, right?

 

[Raymott]

Yes, but I think I read enough of the context to think that it's the ideas and associations that are inbred, not the people.

 

[Rover_KE]

In future, Maria, please give the context in post #1.

Thank you.

 

[Tdol]

So it could either be this or that they only have internal procreation, depending on the context, right?

It could- some small religions that restrict procreation to members do have a problem with inbreeding, but this is not what the writer is talking about here.