The Church’s Biggest Question

“The question the church desperately needs to face right now is this: Is our religion the religion (the institution with all of its dogma and rituals and such), or is the religion in service to something else? I firmly believe that Christ’s teachings are not about having the answers, but about asking the right questions. Christ was a contrarian, a dissenter. He lived that the status quo might be changed and he fought it every day of his life. What I feel that many denominations now, particularly the rather legalistic ones, are missing is the realization that their legalism is diametrically opposed to the way that Christ spoke and acted. We have seen the Pharisees, and they are us.”

–Rachel Stuart