We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.
It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling.
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.
Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
We all want to feel spiritually vigorous, and we hurt when we don't. This pain is intensified for people who lead church ministries.
In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it.
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
We come to church not to hide our problems but to heal them.