Do you see how our definitions of love get twisted when institutional priorities take over? He probably cares about you. I don’t mean to discount that, but he is still at the center of the conflict. Now he wants to call in a debt you don’t owe. “The problem with church as you know it, Jake, is that it has become nothing more than mutual accommodation of self-need. Everybody needs something out of it. Some need to lead. Some need to be led. Some want to teach, others are happy to be the audience. Rather than become an authentic demonstration of God’s life and love in the world, it ends up being
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