I hate making up a title

So I am just sitting here thinking, I always seem to make friends with people that are somewhat weary of churches. Not so much that they don't like church or hate it, but are very afraid of the bad that can come out of it. I wonder if maybe I am meant to work with these people. I like the ideas of churches that aren't churches. In other words they don't fit the typical stereo type of churches. Yet, there are some things about stereotypical churches that I love. I really like some of the old traditions. There's somewhat of a richness to them. I seem to be finding many people that miss tradition in the church. I went to a Catholic mass a long time ago and I found that to be one of the most beautiful things about the church. My favorite was that they kissed the Bible before opening it. There's an awe and respect in those traditions. Sometimes I feel like we are trying to be so modern that we aren't offering anything that really soothes the soul just the emotions. I hate to be hard on churches because I know they try and they honestly mean well. Jesus offered a lady living water and I feel like in the church we are going to offer her a twelve step plan of how to get that water. I know there is life in Christ and obviously certain things well help us experience that to the fullest like devotions, but I don't think there is a real plan to go by. Faith is a messy thing. It requires faith. There's no certainty of what's around the corner there's just certainty that God will be with us on the way there. I don't think the reason Jesus is so attractive is because he was happy or good looking. I think it's because he was real. The problem is that society does not want us to be real, in fact I am not sure that most people know who they really are. Most people are a made up from a mix of their friends and become around them somewhat like them. To be real though is to be vulnerable because if someone doesn't like it that means they don't really like you and not just your acting skills. If someone didn't like us or there was something we needed to change then that would be work and that's not the American way. It's so much easier just to live our lives through the telivision as though we were actually on the screen having those experiences. If we really did have them though that would require change which just wouldn't be comfortable. I remember a guy at work who would always walk by and say how ya doin and before I could respond anything besides good he was gone. My other co-worker said next time I should tell him I 'm crappy and see how he responds. Unfortunately I never did that, because that would be way out of my comfort zone, but maybe it's just time for me to get real.