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What is Killing the church?
What's killing the church?
Does the church really know what it is? In Biblical times it was the body of Christ, and the fellowship of believers. Today it seems to be an institution bent on doing good. It is run like an institution, and it members seem to see it as such.
William Wordsworth said it best:
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
We who were sent to convert the world have become the world.
What was wrong with the Biblical concept of people ministering to each other in the name of Christ. Once the church saw this ministering theme as essential from the top to the bottom ...IE. Bishops to clergy and people; clergy to the people. In our deep caring for one another we built a community unlike any other. God's Spirit was our leader.
I now often wonder who ministers to whom?
Bishops, Superintendents, clergy do their job in a businesslike fashion. Seems like no one wants to get mixed up with anyone else.
What do you think?
How do you respond?
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