"My experience with church ministry matched neither the hunger that churned so deep within me nor what i perceived to be the challenge of scripture. In one moment all my excuses were swept away by a mass of evidence i could no longer ignore. When i looked for whys i kept coming to the same conclusion: Our application of present-day Christianity was deficient.
I knew it wasn't the people; those i worked with loved the lord deeply. i knew it wasn't a disregard for scripture; we believed it whole heartedly. I knew it wasn't a lack of knowledge; i already knew far more than i was living out at the time. But when i looked at how church ministry operated, i saw how high a priority it places on safety and routine. At the cost of distracting people from personal intimacy with Jesus, it clings to the status quo. It placates the lukewarm and cools the zealous. Not only has it failed to lead us to the fullness of relationship with Jesus, it has more often lured us away from it."
(The Naked Church. Wayne Jacobsen)
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