RX For Healing the Church

A friend just forwarded me this excellent reflection from Charisma Magazine Online's J. Lee Grady. He mentions several key changes he believes Pentecostal churches need to make 100 years after the famous Azusa Street outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Here are several that I especially agree with.

1. A shift from buildings to the organic church.
2. A shift from racism to reconciliation.
3. A shift from male-dominated to egalitarian.
4. A shift from hidden sin to healthy holiness.

In my opinion, the sooner the church understands these things, the better. When the church has a wrong view of these important issues, I contend that they also have a wrong view of who God is. So they minister to people through a distorted image of God and they end up wounding the very sheep they are sent to save. They also inflict untold harm on themselves, then wonder why they battle depression and despair.

Read J. Lee Grady's article.