Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
I don't think we should focus on what church that person walks into .. I think we need to focus on what they do when they walk out of church.
If indeed this is the work of God... then it's a crisis that calls for the church to be its very best self, and not worry about risking itself for the right thing.
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club as the Governor would have us believe.
Over the years, I have studied church history as well as the contemporary church, and I noticed how rare it is for a God-glorifying transition of leadership to take place in a local church.
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.
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