The Report

Report Submitted for Your Information About the Current Condition:

They smiled and polished themselves up as best they could. This is all about perception. They rehearsed the right answers and gave the pet phrases as quotes that flowed easier than hot butter. What they thought of each other in private was to be put aside in public. The other person’s opinions were their main target – even if they really didn’t know the motive behind those opinions. Somehow they had to able to present themselves as good and the other person as… not as good.

People rallied behind them and took sides because the actors parroted what they like to hear parroted. They picked sides based on what they saw and how they connected personally. They tried to get as close as they could to the one they liked and distance themselves as much as possible from the one they don’t.

It was amazing to watch the people let words fall from between their lips while they hide the exact opposite within their hearts. They appear to think it’s not a lie if it’s said with a smile.

They pretended to respect each other in public, but harbored ill will for them in private. They claimed to be big enough to let the other person disagree, but they resented it when they did.

They claimed to have the good of the masses in their words and actions, but really were more concerned about themselves then the unnamed souls they will never meet. They said they had the other’s best interest in mind. But they got mad when they didn’t get their own way.

When they go to this much trouble to wear a mask the greatest fear is being found out. Truth becomes secondary and presentation is primary.

The most astounding thing to observe was the tenacious belief in what they really knew was not real, and the causal lip service that was given to what is.

It happens all the time. There is hope for change. There is hope that one day it will be different. There is hope… but no one will take the responsibility of being sure the change is right and not just change. Few learn from history. Instead they demand the right to make their own mistakes and claim they aren’t mistakes.

My summary is – it’s a mess. The whole process is far from what was intended. It seems to be a repeating cycle of aimless action. Doing the same thing and hoping for different results. This is my first report but I’m told it has been like this for decades.

Respectfully Submitted…

[the above report was submitted to God by an angel that was asked to report on the condition of the church… what did you think it was about? Go ahead - read it again.]

Concerned more about the Kingdom,

Pastor Dave