"The real trouble is not in fact that the church is too rich, but that it has become heavily institutionalized, with a crushing investment in maintenance...... It is saddled with a plan and programme beyond its means, so that it is absorbed in problems of supply and preoccupied with survival. The inertia of the machine is such that the financial allocations, the legalities, the channels of organization, the attitudes of mind, are all set in the direction of continuing and enhancing the status quo. If one wants to pursue a course which cuts across these channels, Then most of one's energies are exhausted before one ever reaches the enemy lines."
John A.T. Robinson
(Finding Organic Church. Frank Viola, David C Cook, 2010, page 171)
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