Sometimes when I am frustrated with my church here for being disengaged from the community, I realize that I would have the same problems with VCA (my home church) if I was doing Mission Year in Fall City. I'd want to ask the same questions I want to ask my church here. Why don't you live IN this neighborhood, instead of commuting? Why don't you know that this trailer park even exists? Why don't you invest economically in this area? Why do you drive past the empty houses and not move in? Do you not really care? Is your church on this block by coincedence?
Honestly I am pretty dissillusioned with the church, both here and at home in Washington. We try to follow the American Dream and get further and further away from poverty, when we should be trying to get closer and closer to it.
I am included in this.
Amen.
ReplyDeleteI've been feeling the exact same way, I've lost a lot of faith in the church as a whole lately. It's been a major frusteration for me (as your can probably tell by my recent blog posts haha) I've been reading Shane Claiborne's stuff and I'm pretty sure I'm going to stop being a "Christian" in order to follow Jesus. I'm going to look into Missions Year...we'll see!
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ReplyDeleteI HOPE ALL IS WELL!!!:-)
PS....I resignate with this post...just letting you know you are not alone
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