Church Voices

Going to Bible college is a good way to develop a nervous tic in which the knee is spontaneously and devastatingly applied to the face of anyone who complains about the church.

See, there exists among future ministers the attitude that the church at large sucks and really can’t do much of anything right. To listen to my classmates you’d think the church was filled with a combination of malevolence and incompetence, like some sort of wierd lovechild between Hitler and Barney Fife. Now, I don’t particularly have a problem when there is a specific complaint made about a specific church (or members of a church) so long as the complaint is made with the intention of correcting the problem and its done in a Christ-like way. But that was the rare exception to the rule. Most of the time when I heard complaining about the chuch it was done to elevate the complainer, sort of like when the school bully punches a fat nerd and leaves him flailing on the ground humiliated and hurt to get the attention of a little Ms. Bully. So with that in mind I wanted to just drop a few scriptures on people.

For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the savior.Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
-Ephesians 5:23-25

His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms,
- Ephesians 3:10

And finally, let me leave you with this…

Don’t you have homes to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? Certainly not!
- 1 Cor 11:22