As we approach Resurrection Sunday I continue to think about how Jesus perceives today’s church.  Is He pleased with the church?  Sometimes I imagine Jesus sitting in heaven looking down at His church.  I wonder if He shakes His head in amazement at what we have done to His church.  I can see him shouting at us saying, “What are you doing?  I never meant for you to do that!”

Is He pleased with the way we do praise and worship?

Is He pleased with our sermons?

Is He pleased with the way we invite people to become a part of our church family?

Is He pleased with the way we treat the homeless?

Is He pleased with our level of community work?

Is He pleased with our stewardship?

Is He pleased with the way we market our churches?

We have millions of Christian churches with an estimated 340,000 different Christian denominations.  Within those denominations we have as many different ways of translating scripture and each denomination thinks theirs is the correct translation.  This is not what Jesus intended.  There is no unity in what we do or how we do it.

I love it when I see ministries working together.  It doesn’t matter why they come together as long as it’s for something that Jesus said we should do:  evangelism, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, praising God . . .

I wish there was more unity in the body of Christ.

I wish there were no doctrinal or theological differences.

I wish it didn’t matter what we wear to church.

I wish the Church was thoroughly integrated.

I wish we could worship by those famous words uttered by Rodney King, “Can’t we all just get along?”

I’m going to get off my soapbox now.  This is something that I have struggled with for years.

I believe there is a lot of love in the church and I believe we want to do the right things.  But, we get so caught up in tradition, unnecessary drama and competing against our fellow churches.  Jesus loved people and told them how to find everlasting life – and they came.  No tradition, no drama, no competition.

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