Tuesday, March 01, 2005
SERIAL KILLERS [NOT FOR KIDS]
I'm sick to my stomach that the BTK suspect was a respected church official. He was the President of the Church Council for heaven's sake!
One evil horrendous man doesn't make the church as a whole impotent but it sure feels that way. It makes me feel like we are exactly what those who hate the church say we are.
I don't want to jump to any conclusions based on this one shocking case, but you gotta wonder... don't you know isolated, weird, messed up people in high church leadership roles? People who don't really open up to others and aren't truly known? People who aren't characterized by the love that we are called to have?
Just my tiny tidbit, it seems like the more institutional a church is, the easier it is to have crazies in leadership. It is awful because there are so many great church leaders too. Bleh.
No they aren't all serial killers but there are a lot of messed up people in there. I dunno, this is just my initial reaction.
UPDATE: It doesn't quite address the same issue, but Evangelical Outpost's Blog entitled: Deadwood in the Pews: The Trouble with Church (which cites Bono fav, Eugene Peterson) gives me some good perspective.
One evil horrendous man doesn't make the church as a whole impotent but it sure feels that way. It makes me feel like we are exactly what those who hate the church say we are.
I don't want to jump to any conclusions based on this one shocking case, but you gotta wonder... don't you know isolated, weird, messed up people in high church leadership roles? People who don't really open up to others and aren't truly known? People who aren't characterized by the love that we are called to have?
Just my tiny tidbit, it seems like the more institutional a church is, the easier it is to have crazies in leadership. It is awful because there are so many great church leaders too. Bleh.
No they aren't all serial killers but there are a lot of messed up people in there. I dunno, this is just my initial reaction.
UPDATE: It doesn't quite address the same issue, but Evangelical Outpost's Blog entitled: Deadwood in the Pews: The Trouble with Church (which cites Bono fav, Eugene Peterson) gives me some good perspective.
