At the Beamish open-air museum<\/a>, we saw tiny houses that miners once inhabited, old fashioned stores<\/a> with candies and products one would never see in stores today. So much has changed. But nothing prepared me for the shock of visiting the preserved Methodist church from that time.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Many people, including a very large number of Christians, approach the Christian faith as though it is a museum curiosity, something interesting and even vitally important to be preserved from the past. For some, it is the whole enterprise that is like this \u2013 like an open air museum, one should preserve not just the doctrines but the forms, the church styles and architecture, and the cultural values in which they once flourished and made sense. For others, the faith is more like an object from the past that can be removed from its original setting, and placed in an ultra-modern glass case in a high-tech museum.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-1690390493240295137?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\")
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