Comments on: On mixing with greatness… http://diggingalot.org/diggingalot/?p=2421 Sundry musings and gobbets from the web and from the head of an ordained minister and occasional human being ... Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:20:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Eric Morris http://diggingalot.org/diggingalot/?p=2421&cpage=1#comment-853 Eric Morris Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:04:41 +0000 http://diggingalot.org/diggingalot/?p=2421#comment-853 A friend of mine who works with me on a charity board recently said that our work "is his church". His job requires that he work most Sundays and he seldom gets to attend regular services. His statement moved me because our work is "my church" too. I'm a regular attender (albeit grudgingly) and get much more satisfaction from working with the poor on the "outside" than singing vapid praise songs on the "inside". Perhaps it's time for the "inside" church to move "outside" into the real world and proclaim itself by what it does rather than by what it believes. A friend of mine who works with me on a charity board recently said that our work “is his church”. His job requires that he work most Sundays and he seldom gets to attend regular services.

His statement moved me because our work is “my church” too. I’m a regular attender (albeit grudgingly) and get much more satisfaction from working with the poor on the “outside” than singing vapid praise songs on the “inside”.

Perhaps it’s time for the “inside” church to move “outside” into the real world and proclaim itself by what it does rather than by what it believes.

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