Catch His Eye

The things I miss about attending church are almost all surface things…the singing, the community ritual, etc. I’ve examined myself closely, and cannot bring to mind a single deep, interior thing I ever garnered while attending a church service or function.

One of the things I do not miss is the holiness-signaling that is a large part of corporate church life. It’s a scrambling, competitive, spiritual one-upmanship that wearies the soul. The most mundane conversation can be perverted into this way of thinking.

I have often gotten the impression that Christians seem to be competing among each other for God’s love. This is a tragic category of behavior.

~ S.K. Orr