Of What Possible Good is the Church?
After going to church regularly throughout my childhood and not finding a relationship with Jesus until I was a junior in college, my answer to that question was the same as a huge percentage of American citizens who have tried church and didn’t stick—”Nothing that I can see.” Here are some possibilities of the ways we might have viewed the church while we were, consciously or unconsciously, trying them out: 1. A building – No building, no church. In some parts of the country,…