Tainted Hope

The truth is I've been trying to write this blog for the past hour. I wanted to write something clever about the status of the church or something insightful about my soul. Nothing seems to fit.

This weekend I heard a well-known speaker in Christian subculture say that if Jesus set up a church across town, he would have more attenders than Jesus. And it terrified him. They had made church good, but not life-sacrificing good.

I heard another speaker, also well-known, say that their church valued depth over width. Spiritual maturity over numbers.

I don't know what this means for me. I don't know what this means for the church at large. I just know that I've been going to conferences and retreats for over ten years (I'm a reformed church brat) and I've never heard this. It gives me hope. It scares the absolute crap out of me, but it gives me hope.