Entry #8 - Why I love the Church

So this is my first blog contribution for this blog. Thanks to Kurt for inviting me to contribute.  I am simply copying a past entry from my personal blog.  I will be contributing new stuff very soon, but just wanted to share this....

Why I Love The Church

    I have noticed that a lot of my blog posts have been kind of negative.  I did not mean for this to happen it just kind of did.  I have been thinking long and hard lately about my view of the Church, and the tone set by my views and the views of others that I talk to and listen to.  It is beginning to occur to me that it has become the cool new trend to point out everything that is wrong with Christ's Church.  I know that this is something that has been going on for awhile, but it seems to become more and more rare that I read or listen to something that is positive about the Church.  I am always hearing how traditional, new age, unrelevant, sneaky, and boring it is.  Sad to say most of those comments come from regular Church attenders.

  I am in no way a head in the clouds type of guy, I know that the Church as a whole has some issues today, but with that being said I have started to stop and hesitate before insulting Christ's Church.  I look at it this way.  The Church is symbolized as Christ's Bride in the Bible.  As a husband, I have to wonder how I would feel if every time my wife was talked about, she was talked about negatively.  It would not take too much of it before I was ready to bust some heads.  Which leads me to wonder, if perhaps some of the negativity that we use so much of to speak about the Church has any correlation to its success?

    The first rule of sales is you have to believe in the product your selling, and I wonder sometimes if we actually believe in the Church?  We preach and teach about its necessity, and the good that it will do for people, but our closed door conversations, hall way monologues, and frequent blog writings seem to suggest that we don't believe in our own product sometimes.

Anyway I say all of that to say this.  I would like to hear your comments about why you love the Church?  I don't want any negative comments, there is plenty of time for that and if you want any examples just read back through a few of my posts. I'll go first.

I love Christ's Church because it is the only place I know that gives everyone regardless of age, race, and history, meaningful and everlasting significance.

What's Yours?