I'm sure it wasn't a real baby!

I was just reading a post on a friend's blog. The post was about how the Church, well actually the "institutional church" is how it was put, is becoming irrelevant. It has lost the focus on God, it just spends its money in paying the mortgage and supporting itself. The argument goes on to say that we need to abandon this and do more communal style, impact the community type of activities and this really only happens outside of the Church.

Okay so maybe I am naive, maybe foolish, and likely just not smart, but I say that's total crap. I am not saying that the Church is not flawed or that "religion" is good. What I am saying is that it was always so. Read the Bible. Jesus spoke to the pharisees, guess what, the Church is the pharisses, Jesus addressed this issue, but did he say don't try to do this? Well, no. He rebuked the people who had lost there way, and perhaps many, maybe even all Churches have. I just refuse to say that we should stop getting together to worship God, because some Churches are missing the point. I don't even care if they all are. the possibility exists to make something that reaches out and also comes together for fellowship shared worship and growth. Yes, everything we do is ultimately tainted because we are human, and fallen and that's just the way it is. But the shock and surprise here is that all these new attempts are still done by humans and so, they will fail and fall, and be tainted also.

I just just grow weary of the railing against the traditional without any understanding that...EVERYTHING WE DO IS GOING TO RESULT IN THE SAME PROBLEMS...because we are the authors of them and we are the problem makers.

Okay so Church can suck and be wrong focused, man I can't get through a day without finding myself wrong focused. So should I stop living? Well let's not be stupid here.

I am not saying we should not try some new things either,we can, but let's not stop doing some more traditional things either. I was not a believer and now I am, and I have news for you, it wasn't Church and it wasn't a coffe shop ministry and it wasn't a "cool" hip evangelist pretending to do something else, it was God, plain and simple. So lets get out of His way and join Him in His work, however we are called.