Yesterday in my Issues of Culture and Evangelism class, we had a guest professor as ours was not in. We discussed why church has become a "dirty" word in our culture nowadays. For the most part, people have become turned off by the political aspects of meeting for church on Sunday. We've turned church into business and lost the purpose. We've forgotten how to function, and it really shows. We see ourselves as riding on air gracefully, when really we're toppling over end for end. We don't realize that we have our wings attached to the tail and rudder, and our cockpit is absent.
Dali's "premonition of civil war" is a perfect reminder of that. Dali was showing how war can be so self-beneficial, but in the end can also haunt and destroy us. When we make issues about ourselves, we forget a harsh reality: if our motive is for ourselves, forget it... in the big picture, it's never about us. As Ralph Waldo Emerson says, "every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail." It really just makes me curious as to where this all went wrong.
When we put ourselves on a pedestal, we only show the parts that are to be least glorified. We expose our failures and bad attitudes.
Jesus didn't come to the earth proclaiming... set up church in a manner that reflects the bad organization of the government you live under; let your church function in four walls and show an inclusive tone. Rather, Jesus came a sure-fire to those walls we build up every Sunday... expressing how the church can be used outside of four walls.

Just my thoughts for the day...