The Chinese plan to send missionaries here. We could use it; when foreign church leaders come here with tales of miracles and great conversions, it reminds us of what we lack in our church. We understand giving and serving, but our faith is weak.
I believe that we have at least two major problems in the church in America: we are comfortable and undemanding of ourselves, and we have confused vigor in conservative politics for moral living... as if we're really fooling anyone. The world calls us hypocrites, and they are dead on. Why should gays listen to our moralizing about defending marriage? They know we divorce at the same rate as the general population. Hotel operators report that at pastors' conventions, subscriptions to the porn channels goes up.
We've lost much of our witness, and that's just a sad fact.
WELL PUT.
THX.