A couple of years ago I listened to a podcast that featured a critic of Christianity. He was a person who claimed to love Christ, yet who seemed to have little use for Christ’s church and little good to say about Christ’s people. There was one critique that especially stood out to me.
He spoke about Christian leaders and expressed how often he had found these people disappointing. He looked at leaders in the political sphere, in the business world, and even in the sports industry and concluded that few leaders in the church could hope to match them in ability. Few Christian leaders, he said, had the same kind of bearing, the same kind of extraordinary leadership capacity. Were they taken from the pulpit to the board room, few could hope to attain great success. “Take these Christians out of a distinctly Christian setting,” he said, “And you would quickly see how very ordinary they are.”
I sometimes wonder if people actually read their Bibles. I often have to conclude they don’t, because the Bible makes it clear that God’s plan is not to carry out his will through
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