"The fact that some churches become dysfunctional should be grieved but is not a surprise to those who truly live in community. True community is always messy, for it seeks life in the friendship of embodied living persons. A church with no discord, a church that has climbed to the mount beyond the possibility of dysfunction, is no longer a community but an ideal facade where the preaching becomes only principles and worship just Muzak.
There is no way to avoid discord, and the Christian leader that wants community without discord wants not true community but to drug himself with a needle of the ideal to the vein. The leader who wants the ideal of community does not want community at all, for the ideal is community without the humanity of physical bodies in relationship. The leader who wants the ideal community has turned community into an idol."
- Andrew Root, Bonhoeffer As Youth Worker
No comments:
Post a Comment