Another View for March 16, 2006
Religion News Service
It seems that the only message many people associate with the church is a message of condemnation. After 9-11, some church leaders began pointing their fingers in blame at national social sins as the reason for what they seemed to believe was God’s judgment. Again, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we heard some Christians suggesting it was God’s judgment. But could it be that God is less concerned about the sin of the world than he is about the sin within the church?