Today in the Gospel reading (Mark 9) the disciples are arguing about who among them is the greatest. It is so ridiculous. Here are these people walking around with the Living God, having communion with Him daily, and they are arguing about who is the greatest.
And then I realized that Christendom continues to carry on their tradition. The Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches have been having this debate for thousand of years, and many Protestant churches have taken it up since they joined the scene. WHO is the real church? Who is the greatest? And meanwhile, there is work to be done, a dying world that could use the salt and light of the Gospel.
We are looking for a church home right now. It is the most exhausting thing. Our church of five years has disintegrated for a lot of reasons and now we are trying to find a place where we can worship and raise our children as believers. I don't want to get into theology, but it is a hard thing trying to find a church with humility that is committed to truth. Some of them are still having this 2000 year old argument that the disciples started. Jesus is still shaking His head in disbelief.
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oh, honey, i'm so sorry to hear about your church's dissolution. i know from experience how very painful and frustrating that is! when it happened to me, it took me two years of hunting and ten years of hiatus and a quirky seemingly coincidental invitation to a retreat that got me going somewhere again. i will pray for god's guidance for you...and for patience.
and your last line is completely accurate. i was going to say that we're all going to get there in the end and fall to our faces in shame for some of what we (the collective we) have perpetrated in his name.
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