The church…
- Should start caring more about what’s going on outside the walls of their own building
- Shouldn’t expect people who don’t believe in God to act like it anyway.
- Should be more concerned about others, and allow them to be honest rather than…
- Shouldn’t be obsessed about how they’re being offended, their own rights, or own agendas.
- Should become known for how they love, rather than what/who they hate/stand against.
- Ought to start looking different than the world, living with different values, rather than just buying into the consumeristic paradigm.
- Should start encouraging one another daily, not just attend a program every week or so.
- Should start taking up the cause of the widow and the orphans, of the downcast and cast out.
- Should allow it’s members to “work out” their salvation, rather than saying that everything has already been worked out.
- Should allow us to be human on an ongoing journey, rather than pushing us to simply “look good.”
- Should start preaching the true word of God, rather than just placating their own members’ comfortable lifestyles.
- Should be the main group getting dirty, helping out those who no one else wants do deal with. From the drunk at the bar to the beggar on the street.
- Shouldn’t try to convert the culture for ourselves, with our own “christian” coffee shops, music, etc.
If we were simply the church the way it’s supposed to be, I bet we wouldn’t have to try and force Christianity on people.
Originally posted on 2002-07-16, this is an excerpt from a post I made on another message board.
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