Think back to the original church and its members....how they operated in the beginning....the time they spent with one another in fellowship and worship, the support they provided one another, how they lifted one another up, how people humbled themselves, how people admitted their weaknesses and faults, how people weren't afraid to ask for forgiveness (from their neighbor as well as their God), how they went to the ends of the earth for their Savior....
The question is this - is this the modern church we see today? Are we really a people who are humble, do we pray for those who wrong us, do we spend enough time with fellow Christians?
Do we let our guards down, let people see the flawed individuals we really are, or do we sit in church and act as though we have it all together? If we can't trust those we are church with to see the real us, the imperfect person who really doesn't have it all together, the one who puts on a smile for the world, how can the church possibly function as it was intended? We cannot bear the burden alone, we can't solve our problems on our own. We need our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ to lean on, to pray for us, to fellowship with.
If we can't get ourselves together and be real to the world, how will we ever reach a hurting world? Does a world that is full of pain, full of hurting, and full of it in general have any desire to join the fellowship of a church that cannot admit they're not the picture of perfection? How will they ever relate to us if we cannot relate to ourselves? How they will they ever relate to "pretty plastic people" in churches with "pretty plastic steeples." How will they open up to us if we cannot open up to ourselves?
I wonder how can we share Jesus with them, if we do not really know him ourselves?
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