I am a bad blogger. To be honest with myself I am not actually a good writer at all, but at least I should be writing something to make it worth even having this page. Anyway a band mate called me out on not updating this site in a month so her I am.
Yesterday in band practice the idea came up about people becoming disillusioned with organized religion. I can't say I do not understand it after all Church's are filled with people and with people come politics, gossip and what not. As hard as we try to avoid these things they will exist. They exist in our workplace and they exist in our church.
I think that the reason why people get disillusioned with church or organized religion is that they have been sold that it is something that it can not and should not be.
Church is not where we go to seek God, we seek God in our private lives, in our prayer life and in everything we do. God may reveal himself at out church but if that is why we go to church we risk falling into the trap of becoming Sunday morning Christians and that is clearly not the best God has in store for us.
So what is church then?
It just occurred to me that there are two distinct things when we talk of church, there is where we go Sunday morning, and there is "The Church" which is the community of all Christians. I of course and talking about the former
Church is a place of corporate worship and prayer, a school to learn, and a place of fellowship. Any liturgy or formality of "religion" serves to those goals.
When I see organized religion that way and understand it as a tool to be used in our spiritual life instead of its center I find it much harder to be disillusioned. Just as a would not get disillusioned by a hammer or a saw, when what I am really doing is building a house.
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