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The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In actuality, however; it accomplishes the opposite by nurturing a permanent dependence of the laity on the clergy. Clergy become to their congregations like parents whose children never grow up, like therapists whose clients never become healed, like teachers whose students never graduate.

Children, Church, Healed, Permanent, Spiritual, Teacher

The problem is that, regardless of what our theologies tell us about the purpose of the clergy, the actual effect of the clergy profession is to make the body of Christ lame. This happens not because clergy intend it (they usually intend the opposite) but because the objective nature of the profession inevitably turns the laity into passive receivers.

Body Of Christ, Happens, Opposites, Purpose, Regardless, Theologies

Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white.

Backgrounds, Call, Nearly, Percent, White

Adults have their own issues and their own problems, which are understandable, and some adults are working through their own adolescent issues. -

Adults, Issues, Problem, Working

Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitations…. This meeting of powers and limitations produces a creative, dynamic tension and energy that generates and fuels the making of human social life and social structures…. It is real human persons living through the tensions of natural existential contradictions who construct patterned social meanings, interactions, institutions, and structures.

Builds, Creative, Lines, Patterned, Real, Structures

Ellen Kushner

Ellen Kushner

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Alfred Eisenstaedt

David George Hogarth

David George Hogarth

Andy Murray

Andy Murray

Charles Durning

Charles Durning

Anne Graham Lotz

Anne Graham Lotz

Jean Grae

Jean Grae

Jack Dorsey

Jack Dorsey

Bob Lilly

Bob Lilly

Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner

Harvey S. Firestone

Harvey S. Firestone

Emm Gryner

Emm Gryner