From Blue like Jazz...
"I am the problem.
I think every conscious person, every person who is awake to the functioning principles within his reality, has a moment where he stops blaming the problems in the world on group think, on humanity and authority, and starts to face himself. I hate this more than anything. This is the hardest principle within Christian spirituality for me to deal with. The problem is not out there; the problem is the needy beast of a thing that lives in my chest."
If all of us, starting with me, could be awake long enough to recognize this on a regular basis, the church would then ready to impact the world. I believe what often keeps us ineffective is the belief that we're really not that bad. Our sin somehow wasn't as bad. God loved us because afterall, we're all sinners, but we are the good kind. I don't think too many of us who call ourselves followers of Jesus can really say, along with Paul, "Christ came to die for sinners, of which, I am the worst." Try it though, it's quite liberating.
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