Clergy and The Way Starbucks Sees It #296

Today, as I paid my tithe to the consumer coffee goddess in the form
of a $2.00 Grande Drip of the Day [room for cream, two cups, no
sleeve], I read "The Way I See It #296". It reads like this:

"By the time executives get married, take on a mortgage, raise kids,
cope with the crabgrass, climb the corporate ladder, do their best to
manage career pressures, build their net worth and get into their 40s.
they've lost touch with what they believe in and care about most
deeply."

My thought was this: The same is true for clergy, especially in Church
bodies where there is a "career path" (and let's be honest, almost all
of them have such a path, whether it is explicit in terms of a
hierarchy, or implicit in terms of moving up the ladder from smaller
churches to more prestigious churches).

What has happened to the Church? We were founded by our Master to
continue His work of healing the world. We were anointed and appointed
by His Resurrection Spirit to make individuals, families, and
communities healthy and whole in body, spirit, and soul.

And we have become what?

A corporate ladder that mimics every other corporate ladder, begging
the dominant consumer culture to validate our self worth, by attaining
higher and higher levels in the corporate system, with more
"product" [i.e. self-help-jesus-ism] to sell to more "consumers" [i.e.
the crowd on sunday morning we are desperately trying to entertain, be
relevant for, and hold on to].

Put a person in that system in their 20's, and they will be jaded and
numb by their 40's.

Guaranteed.

We need a new Jesus revolution.

May Jesus draw you into Himself,
jaded.for.jesus@gmail.com
http://jadedforjesus.blogspot.com