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Ann Fedeli
Identity Crisis: A Jesus that is Insipid and Powerless
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
I sense that the church is in the midst of a serious, but potentially transforming, identity crisis. Several observations have led me to this conclusion. On one hand, I see a church that appears to have forgotten their roots in a fallen humanity and their familial connection to the lost, the disenfranchised, and the confused. Christ has become the means of obtaining personal blessing and prosperity, hell-fire insurance, a squeaky-clean church environment and the affirmation of our right to riches, second homes, and vacations in Europe. In my case, the right to own forty pairs of shoes. We have forgotten that our blessings are for the sake of blessing others. They are not primarily for our personal consumption. There is nothing that we have that is not pure gift.
