Reflecting on why so much seems to go wrong as our communities evolve into church organizations, this quote seems to get to the heart of the problem. We start off with lives being changed through the power of the Gospel. But many with us demand rules and structure and form. Since we want to be helpful, we call upon our natural skills to provide these. We create charters and organization charts and build great programs. These are not inherently bad but eventually we find that these are our focus. We lose site of our initial call.
Our community shifts from being of one heart centered around Christ to an organization built around programs. We become Pharisees. People lose their passion and what little desire remains is working against the wrong thing.
We need to return to the Gospel and allow the Spirit of God to cause men to "see the Kingdom of God". Then nothing we do can hold them back.
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