Why does it make me angry when a couple of young life leaders hang out and I overhear them talking about being, "saved" and "church" stuff? Really, I am a Christ follower and I am deicated to the cause--so why do these feelings linger? You might ask me, "Phil, what are you holding against the Church?" My respone, Hey, the Church is the bride of Christ, and it has never fully arrived to perfection. I am upset at the Church recently because I guess I hold it so close to my heart. I am tired of my sunday school picture of church, and I despertley want the people I go to school with to know the love and hope of the Father. I want my friends who are gay to live a life a freedom alongside the faithful labors in the church who have so much insight and wisdom, but will that ever be the case? I am confident that once we began to live beyond our sub-urban feneces and live life in the raw, somewhere along the way we will see the face of Christ, not in the church listening to the five points of theology (he nodout is there), but, also will be eating with the ones we wrtie off so easily.
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