The Perfect Church
John 13:34-35 "I give you a new command: Love each other. You must love each other just as I loved you. All people will know that you are my followers if you love each other."
These days, so many people are so fed up with church, that they’ve simply stopped going.
It’s so easy to poke fun at this thing called “church” because we live in a world where we’re duped into believing that money can buy perfection. If you have enough money, you can buy the perfect holiday, the perfect home, the perfect car, the perfect coffee experience. It’s not true of course, because you soon discover that nothing in this world is perfect.
Nevertheless, given that mindset, it’s pretty easy to see that the church is far from perfect. I was struck by this deep truth in a rather old-fashioned, quaint little poem that I stumbled across recently.
I think that I shall never see, a church that’s all it’s meant to be; A church whose members never stray, beyond the straight and narrow way; A church that has no empty pews, whose pastor never has the blues; A church whose elders always speak, and none is proud and all are meek. Such perfect churches there may be, but none of them are known to me. But still we’ll work and pray and plan, to make our church the best we can.
It seems to me that we can either stand on the sidelines, poke fun at it and be part of the problem, or get in the game and be part of the solution. So, in an imperfect church, full of imperfect people, what is the solution? Jesus put it like this:
John 13:34-35 “I give you a new command: Love each other. You must love each other just as I loved you. All people will know that you are my followers if you love each other.”
That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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