Transformation in the Church

Another thought from Jimmy Dorrell:

Transformation in the church must come. "It is hard to escape the conclusion that one of the greatest roadblocks to the gospel of Jesus Christ is the institutional church," says Howard Snyder in Radical Renewal. In new wineskins and perhaps through the life of the old wino, our ecclesiology must be upended by the "least of these": the hungry, imprisoned, sick, and stranger. Intentional efforts in local congregations must be made to reconnect the rich and the poor; the black, white, and brown; those educated in the university; and those educated on the streets. Only then can we learn the lessons that this God of the little people wants us go know (Trolls & Truth, p. 29).