"And size is the great depersonalizer. Kierkegaard’s criticism is still cogent: “the more people, the less truth.”
The only way the Christian life is brought to maturity is through intimacy, renunciation, and personal deepening."
- Eugene Petterson. MEMOIRS. letter to a pastor.
Don't fret, we the church created you.
"The worst indictment of the failure of our institutions is that people no longer have any idea how to follow Christ without rituals and guidelines from the outside. Instead of being equipped to follow Jesus, they were lulled to spiritual passivity by a well-planned program. This, more than anything, accounts for the emptiness people feel and why they go look for something else. But even then, they will naturally seek a set of activities to sustain them."
- Wayne Jacobsen. Beyond Sundays.
