steamboat28 wrote: Everyone has this assumption that everyone at TotJO is here to be a Knight. I think we forget that the IP and training/ranking courses are entirely optional, and that some people might be here just for the congregational aspect. Those sorts of people (to draw an analogy, the kind of people that are in a church every sunday to learn, but not volunteer, lead, or rise through the ranks of the clergy) are Jedi, too. And if we relegate teaching to the IP and Apprenticeships, those people will never learn anything more about this organization than what they can find us arguing about on the forums, and that's not okay with me. While maybe they shouldn't be handed everything on a silver platter, "plain" Members are still members, and they should be treated like it, not relegated to being second-class citizens who are forgotten about because they may not have the drive, desire, or time for the IP while the rest of us are on the quest for a spiritual enlightenment or a fancy title.
This thread is moving too fast for me so I CBA to catch up but did a quick check and didn't see this addressed.
steamboat, you are aware that we have 178 sermons right? http://www.templeofthejediorder.org/sermons
