"Often I feel like a juggler in this Church, trying to hold many truths together. I can't make the great issues of the Reformation key in my life. Especially when I see that so many of the questions were asked entirely by comfortable, white male clerics (on both sides) and, usually, were question of power and righteousness! If we had to divide, why couldn't we divide over who was doing a better joy of feeding widows and orphans."(R. Rohr "Radical Grace" p.244)
Open the Yellow pages anywhere and you'll find a veritable shmorgasborg of churches to choose from. Some with denominational labels, some without. All wanting you the consumer to believe that God is more present there than anywhere else.
That, like most marketing ploys is misleading. God is just as present in my church as in any other. What differs is in this day and age mostly about personal style of worship. There was of course a time when each of these denominations and even non-denominations had some deeper theological reason for being created. And of course the more you splinter the quicker you become fast burning kindling.
I'd love to see churches compete as to who was outdoing who in doing good. Who really had the compassionate care of Christ going strong. Of course what I'd really love to see is the churches cooperating with each other to follow the Matthew mandate of feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, drink to the thirsty, visiting the sick and the those in prison. Boy wouldn't Jesus be really impressed by that, rather than the whose more orthodox nonsense that still goes on today.
Blessings,
Ed
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