"I suggested that only a "dry as dust" religion prompts a minister to extol the glories of heaven while ignoring the social conditions that cause men an earthly hell." Martin Luther King Jr. talking with ministers in Brigham Alabama.
Bill Hybels says the Church is the hope of the world, but how is the church supposed to be this if it never reaches the world in the first place.
What is the church for?
Who is the church for?
Is it to be missional to attract the seeker?
Is it to be a steaming post of Christian education and community?
Is it to be a home for the widowed, the orphans and the parents who have lost a child?
Is it to be a forum of theologians and philosophers?
Is it to be a hospitable for the sick and the crippled?
Is it to be a place of chosen economic flourishment and forced economic poverty?
Is it to be a place where laws are followed but questioned?
Is it to be a place where the social rights of a person exist and discussed?
The church is to be all these things. The question remains then; who is going to bring the hope into the world?
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