Questions
In a recent post on “Out of Ur”, Brian McLaren talks about why young people are leaving the church. He states that we fail to answer the questions that young people are asking. He suggests that instead of guilt and shame, we begin asking the same questions post-high schoolers are asking. So he poses the following question.
What questions did the church not answer for you or not answer well?
Here’s my question. Why the inconsistency between who the church says it is, and how we actually walk that out? My experience with church has been that it is a “country club” for those who are holy. A place we can gather to get away from the world. A building and group of people we can hide inside of. This is completely inconsistent with who Jesus is. How can we teach our children to be like Jesus, to eat with the sinners and prostitutes? He taught us to feed the hungry and heal the sick. Many of us, instead, run to the church to be sequestered inside of it, like it’s a fall out shelter from the world.
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