I am finding many who tell this story and many who feel it inside. Do we trust our institutions too much? Is the institution part of the problem? Examine this letter from a follower of Jesus. Can you relate or is he mislead?
Dear Institutional Church,
With great reluctance I have come to leaving you. Of course I left mentally some time ago, but with a sense of duty, obligation, and perseverance, I continued to attend until recently….
Wanting friends, acceptance, and fellowship I sought out opportunities to be involved in church life. Aside from child care, ushering, and musical performance, there were few to no options. I’m a guy. I work well with my hands, am good with technology, and love adventure. In short, I don’t fit.
my desire to attend Sunday morning theater church has died the death of a thousand cuts. …….. finding myself to be irrelevant to the needs of the church (no on childcare, ushering, Sunday school, music, and giving large tithes) has destroyed my waning desired to involve myself with the institutional church.
