I’ve seen a lot of surprising things in organized religion through the years. But one thing I haven’t seen is substantive change in the church to make her what she is intended to be. Her structure and traditions are literally pulling the church into irrelevance and decay. I hear a call for change, yet the changes we have made look more like makeup on a pig than real substantive changes. We have made symbolic changes, cosmetic changes, and minor structural changes, but none are substantive. Don’t expect any real improvement in the church until she is willing to make substantive changes in her behavior. Changes like: • learning to walk in repentance, forgiveness, humility, and love toward one another regardless of doctrinal differences, racial differences, bylaws, and local congregational alliances. • building the Kingdom of God instead of building our own little empires. • departing from hierarchical leadership to prayerfully seeking the Holy Spirit for direction and choosing to submit to Him regardless of the cost. • directing our giving toward God and not a denomination, building, charismatic personality, program, or to get a tax deduction. Can we really be the Body of Christ when we allow the Holy Eucharist, the Communion Table, the Lord’s Supper, to divide us because we can’t agree on what to call it, much less what methods we should use to celebrate it? Is how we baptize new converts more important than the fact that we do baptize them? Is it really grounds for breaking fellowship because we cant or don’t agree? If we want the church to be relevant and effective, it’s time we start making substantive changes because if we keep doing what we are well get what weve got.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 13:02:50 +0000
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