It’s trendy to abandon the church because of hypocrisy. Seems like a bold, courageous move. Meanwhile our faith gets deconstructed and loneliness creeps in, but at least we’re not wit those judgmental *(#@(*$U^@%.

Listen, I get it. But maybe you’ve confused the church with the Kingdom of God. The KOG is perfect, a healing rule and reign under the Lordship of Christ. The church, on the other hand, is a dumpster fire where the beautiful KOG interfaces the disaster of humanity. A renovation project begins and leaves us with people who seem to be half-saints at best. Works in progress. Sometimes people get hurt.

Simon the Sorcerer is a great example of how Christians can still be up to no good. This is why churches need to be up front with the grace and truth of Jesus, even telling seemingly good people to knock it off. Then they get mad and leave… meanwhile the world is on fire.

We have so much work to do.