Faith is about RELEASING power to a higher being…
not about cleaving to one’s social power until it constipates your community.

Sin, in curvatus in se, is being turned in upon yourself. It’s olde Augustine’s definition of sin. I rather liked that definition, because by the time I had gotten around to formally studying theology I had already decided that Sin is Greedy Self-Centered-ness.

So what? Well, this doesn’t speak well for the majority of American Christian groups, does it? Ever heard that “if YOU were the ONLY person to exist, Jesus would still have come to die just for YOU!” How about all that “Health and Wealth” bull on TBN? We have worship music in every style, congregations for every race and class, and enough Christian Stores and Christian Sub-culture that you may NEVER have to inconvenience yourself by befriending an un-churched non-believer. We are an American Christian Culture… in Sin.

We want to do church OUR WAY… But isn’t Church supposed to be a place where we can bring others? A place where we can get mobilized for ministry and where believers can be discipled?

We are Armchair Christians who like to fight over the remote. Me-me-me-me… ‘I’ll let you pick the channel only after I’m not watching my show.’ And so we go to church to be entertained. We gather with people just like ourselves in order to reinforce and justify our faith in ourselves.

Unfortunately, we are to be created anew in the image of God…
Not to create a community in the likeness of our own image.