A Church of Living Stones
As I mentioned yesterday, I've been attending some of the Festival of Homiletics, a preaching conference that is being held in San Antonio this week. Being in a room full of a couple thousand pastors and church leaders has been a great experience, but it also has been a sharp reminder of the very real issues facing the Church right now. The Church is going through a reformation, and reformations are painful. Not all followers of Jesus who call the Church home, receive the evidence of that reformation with the same enthusiasm. It's pretty clear that the Church is sharply divided over many of the same issues that divide our society. I read something today by E. Stanley Jones that spoke to me. He wrote, [The Church] must be held together by a single-minded devotion [to Christ]; otherwise we begin to disintegrate." I've been watching the news lately, and it's disturbing on so many levels. Our society is seemingly being torn apart by c...