The church is in a mess!

The church is in a mess! Or more accurately, messy. Actually it is bound to be. It is a stage where real life battles evolve. There is lot of gory flesh (not merely natural) scenes and fierce struggles. Light falls on the darkness and the darkness reacts violently. We hear lot of heart cries and see people in the throes of death (again not talking about death in the natural realm). Well, the church may not be in the pink of health at any point of time but the thing that concerns me is whether we are much worse than we think we are. Maybe as the time nears, we are endorsing things within a church setting that we would have refused to accept in a previous generation. Do we have any role models (other than those in the Bible) who can chart a path across this stiff resistance that the world is placing before us? The Bible says that which is born of the flesh is flesh but it seems like today's flesh is largely concealed within the garb of freedom in the Spirit. Power is the in-word in the church but it is a one-sided kind of power that ignores humility and dependency on God. It is a free for all in the name of Holy Spirit anointing. Everyone has much to say and yet nothing much is being said. One pastor declared boldly - if we want to have fellowship in today's church, we have to backslide and join the many because there are too few up in front. We need to arise even if it costs our everything! We may lose the little friends that we have but the battle is too big for us to hold back what we have. Let's give the 'flesh' a fair fight. It deserves it!