But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.
Churches, by the very reason of their structures, are monolithic and do not adapt easily. But in many cases, they, too, have allowed themselves to become allied or even part of an unjust establishment or system.
Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.
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.
It's very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world.
Churchgoers in America are notorious for jumping into movements, even ideas that are hard to listen to. But when they actually have to change their lifestyle and do something about it, it rarely translates into action.
Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.
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.
Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously.
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