Money Has Power. And So Withholding Money

There Are Congregations On Nearly Every Corner. I'm Not Sure We Need More Churches. What We Need Is A Church. I Say One Church Is Better Than Fifty. I Have Tried To Remove The Plural Form Churches From My Vocabulary, Training Myself To Think Of The Church As Christ Did, And As The Early Christians Did. The Metaphors For Her Are Always Singular - A Body, A Bride. I Heard One Gospel Preacher Say It Like This, As He Really Wound Up And Broke A Sweat: "we've Got To Unite Ourselves As One Body. Because Jesus Is Coming Back, And He's Coming Back For A Bride Not A Harem.

The Church Is A Place Where Broken People Can Fall In Love With A Beautiful God.

I Like How Someone Once Said Being A Christian Is Not About Having New Ideas But Having New Eyes. This Is The Ability To Have Our Hearts Broken With The Things That Break The Heart Of God. That Is Part Of What It Means To Be A Christian.

There Are Some Things To Die For But None To Kill For.

Certainly The Institutional Church Is Ill. It's Hemorrhaging Young People At An Astronomical Rate.