Staub continues “I will be vigilant in my association with the church, recognising that it often falls into the unhealthy patterns of cocooning from, combating, or conforming to culture and today’s Christianity-Lite too often mirrors popular culture; yet because I recognise the church’s impoertance and potential, I will take my place as an active participant in it.”
The church is full of normal people who struggle and fail like the rest of society. The difference should be that it should be full of people who have the potential to be fully human because of a unique inter-relationship with the God of the universe who created everything. We lose site of that too easily in our attempts to be attractive… falling into the consumerist traps that allow us as church goers to think that the church serves our interests. How much we need grace to be a community that listens to and and obeys the God who has our true humanity; our potential at heart. How will our fellow pilgrims break free from self centredness? How will it be turned around? Prayer… relying on God… good teaching… discipleship, community, worshiping the King.
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