Seriously. I want to know why. What is it about church that makes you not go. For those of you who do go, maybe you can chime in?

It seems to me like there has been a lot of conversation lately about what is wrong with church and why we don’t go and how the system is broken, and people are Christian enough, etc., etc. However, I really am trying to get to the heart, the core of the issue. Is the Christian church as an institution really broken? Has it really made so many mistakes? Can we even answer that questions honestly and truthfully? I mean, how can we even evaluate the institution american Christianity? There is no 1 authority, or body that makes up. In fact even in my own Southern Baptist denomination there are no two churches perfectly alike. I know there are some that do things wrong and have made mistakes, and might be really toxic environments for people, but those are the outliers.

When I hear Millennials talk about church, either they love it or they hate it. But sometimes I wonder if their issue with church isn’t more a personal issue with God, or with expectations. I just don’t know. I do know that it is hard to be a part of a family, and that is what church is: a family. And it takes work to make it work, and it takes love to gloss over the bumps, but that in the end it must be worth it. Christ’s bride will be presented spotless and without blemish in God’s eyes, and that is a goal worth fighting for.