Church as Civic Organization

Last post, I wrote about the the opportunity the church has to be a hospital, a greenhouse, and an army. This post I want to explore why churches so often don't operate as such and what, in my observation, churches often are.

It goes without saying that many churches to day have become little more than civic organizations. Actually, civic organization might be too kind a term; social club would be better. There are many civic organizations doing a better job at world-transformation than we are. We seem to have lost a sense of mission. This old, old story says it well: