Some Thoughts on the Church

As Joe Novenson once said, "The church may be a whore, but she is God's wife and your mother."

G.K. Chesterton: "The church has gone to the dogs at least 5 times, and each time it is the dogs that came back dead."

Jesus seemed to think that the church was pretty important to His whole plan (Matthew 16:17-19 and John 17:21-26).

The church today is radically messed up but abuse doesn't point us to disuse but to proper use. We are called to engage with others in living out the Truth as revealed in God's Word and to seek out a church that is pursuing that. Christ calls us to this (John 17:21-26), even as He prays for it.

To gripe or abandon the local church without pursuing misses the point and reveals that we are more concerned with our pain and desires than with God's passion and desires. Or as Madonna has said recently, "When you turn over an apple cart, all you have is a mess of apples on the floor and how does that help anything."