Too many church folks are expecting their pastors or their churches to complete them, to virtually “be Jesus” to them. But only Jesus can be Jesus to us. There’s only one Messiah. So if we’re expecting all our inner dysfunction and awkwardness and hurts and fears to get fixed by the experience of Christian community, good luck with that. Everybody else is expecting the same thing. We’re a bunch of beggars demanding the other beggars give them bread.
