Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world - not to win them, but to be like them.
Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires.
People who are comfortable with very clear boundaries and group definitions don't like the instability and ambiguity of people who say they are more advanced Christians, or they don't have to do what the bishop says.
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
What the church is really concerned about is what endures.
It's troubling for me as a Catholic to be at odds with the church.
Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it.
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
Those who belong to megachurches display as high a level of personal commitment as do those who attend small congregations.