Why? Because of the system. The system of churches and religious programs that make people believe they need all this stuff before they can get closer to God. The systems that inculcate us into believing that we need degrees inorder to know God better. That we need millions before we can start a church. That we need to be perfect before we can serve. A system that robs us of the confidence God wants for us. A system that rewards those who can speak clearly and overlooks those who stutter. A system that does not allow the nervous ones to serve. A system that rewards self righteousness and hypocrisy over weakness and honesty.
I AM HAPPY NOW
About a God who is so loving we cannot even imagine it. I am happy now about a God who is telling us " I gave my only begotton son so that you, yes you can come and be with me. I am happy now about a God who says be confident for I am with you. I am happy about a God who through His Son's life tells us forget all the nonsense and become my church for I destroyed the hypocrits and those who would keep you from doing it. I am happy about a God who made sure we had his word and could hear the message loud and clear.
The message is "I Love You With All My Heart. Go forth and serve for I am with you till the end of the age".
I AM HAPPY NOW BECAUSE MY GOD IS MY HEROE, MY KING AND MY FRIEND.
Scott Bartchy is a radical. He believes in a subversive system that embraces those on the fringes of our society and seeks to establish a new way of life that goes against the status quo.
Kind of like Jesus.
Bartchy, currently the Director of the Center for the Study of Religions at UCLA, notes a great gap between the original, early form of church in the first three hundred years of Christianity, and the modern concept of doing church today.