‘If the church were Christian’ – 10
And so to the tenth and last chapter of Phillip Gulley’s book. If the church were more Christian, he says, ‘this life would be more important than the afterlife.’
Too many people, the church offers an alternative reality, an escape from the real world. A big part of this is its obsession with our ultimate destiny in heaven or hell, contemplated without due regard to living well in the here and now. And this obsession stems from a need to control – to control who is ‘in’ and who is ‘out’. …