I think that most of the people in our culture who are not part of a church community would say that they think the church is broken.  What I mean by that is they do not feel that anything that happens in a church setting has any relevance to what happens in their normal everyday life. They see a bunch of people who are not really doing as Jesus did. In fact they see a group of people who are more about themselves then they are about living the way Jesus calls them to live. They feel church people want everyone to talk, dress, act, and think like them in order to be a part of their group. I think they wonder why the God of the universe needs our money. They wonder why church people think it is wrong to be gay.  They wonder why church people will not associate with a prostitute when Jesus did.  They question wether Jesus would always vote republican. They find it hard to imagine Jesus picking up a machine gun. They wonder why they should save sex for marriage when the divorce rate among ”church people” is the same as everyone else.  They cannot understand why Christians are so insistent, to the point of being mean, that they are correct and everyone else is wrong.

You know what, I wonder some of the same things. What do you think?  Is the church broken?

Derrak