Church Politics and Grace...

for the last number of years, cailyn and i had been at purdue and going to the campus house there and they have sunday services, so we have not been regular attenders at a community church for a while. however, now that we are at central missouri, we don't have sunday services here, and so that means that for the last number of months we have been involved in a local community church.

this past sunday we were attending a sunday school class and i was reminded of the ugliness of church politics and about how it causes people to, in many senses, just miss the point. there really just doesn't seem to be any grace...it just seems like laws and rules and regulations with no grace and it seems just totally pointless to me. it really drives me crazy...

so this morning i got to thinking about it some more, and i really wonder what God thinks about it and how it makes him feel about it. and i really think that it causes him to be sad and to just want to hug people that are caught up in church politics and the sort. i think that he looks down on us and says..."i would much rather you be about love and grace...please more love and more grace!"