this is no longer my blog

we claim to be a church based on the teachings of Jesus... but instead of clothing the naked, feeding the hungry, visiting the lonely, including the disenfranchised, loving the unloved, embracing the children, sharing the good news, sheltering the vulnerable, and all the other things that Jesus taught and lived we argue about money, worry about too many groups using our building, gossip about the person who hasn't been to church in a while, stare in disbelief that someone wore that to church, assume that the church is just a weekend-only country club for people who look and think and act and dress like me. We sacrifice mission for the sake of the budget, we substitute glorified baby-sitting for real ministry to our children, we cloister ourselves inside the walls of the church rather than reaching out to the people on the outside. And God help you if you don't believe everything we do (or at least do a damn good job of pretending) because you'll probably end up in hell. We claim to be Christians - followers of Christ - but if Jesus were here today, would we be the ones he'd be eating with? Or would we be the ones offended and grumbling to each other in disbelief that Jesus ate with those people?