[Asianunta]

But many of them are more demanding of their flock than we are. They push tithing and getting involved in helping the poor. I have a cousin whose protestant (Methodist) church is very involved in a foster parenting program. He is theologically as confused a Christian as I have ever met. But he is extremely attracted to a church that makes demands on him.

Wow! These people must be very humble, because those demands are too much for someone like myself, who likes freedom. God respects individual freedom. And people should not be pressured. Like Geronda Porphyrios advices. He says that even for himself he took this approach because from pressure he said some evil will surface somewhere else.