[betty boop]

The Spirit's lesson is that a loveless church, no matter how rightly they can enunciate their doctrine, is not a church that even needs a candlestick. Candlesticks are used to lift up the light to spread more light. If there is no light, then what's the use of the candlestick? Moreover, if there's no light possible there, then it is as the pope says, not really Christian at all.

LOLOL re: the "church's Mary Kay Representative!" (Or maybe I should weep instead. Sigh....)

I am reminded of Eric Voegelin's characterization of the German Church in the run-up to Hitler's near total co-optation of it: The churches had become "social clubs for like-minded families." Read: Utterly abandoned by the Holy Spirit, by the Light and Grace of God.

Dear brother in Christ, what a marvelous essay/post you have written here! So beautiful, so just!

Thank you!

[xzins]

And for your kindness, dear Sister in Christ

[YHAOS]

I believe (sadly) Eric Voegelin’s characterization of the German Church of the Thirties fits, “to a T,” many of today’s American Churches.

[Alamo-Girl]

Voegelin's description fits quite a few churches in the U.S. - but the ones that grow and prosper spiritually, here and abroad, are the ones that preach Christ and Him crucified.

Thank you for all of your wonderful essay-posts, dearest sister in Christ!