Day 75: Making it Work

I really think the world is disappointed in the church, you know that? I think the world in some ways knows pretty well what the church ought to be like. And they can point out its failures and its inconsistencies better than we can. And in a sense they are saying to us by that, “Why don’t you people become what God intended you to be? Let’s see it work. We don’t want theory. We want something that works in daily living.” I believe when the church becomes that in experience we will experience what I believe the prophetic utterance gave promise them, an inrush of people into the kingdom of God, because the world knows really that what it has doesn’t work, but it doesn’t see any alternative.