tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11900172.post4984920792556575732..comments2023-09-17T07:02:09.587-04:00Comments on p e a c e f u l t u r m o i l: Who would want to be UU?tinythinkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17137637122776756669noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11900172.post-5122074133707166362008-02-29T17:00:00.000-05:002008-02-29T17:00:00.000-05:00"In many senses the church is a hospital - it is a..."In many senses the church is a hospital - it is a place of spiritual, social, emotional, moral and psychological healing. And just as in a hospital the patients suffer from different conditions, are at different levels of health and are at different stages of the healing process, so it is with the church. Sometimes healing takes weeks or months - sometimes it takes a lifetime. Simply visiting a hospital doesn’t automatically make a sick person well. Some need intensive care, others less intensive but no less important ongoing treatment or rehabilitation. No hospital is a centre of physical perfection, and neither is a church one of spiritual perfection - rather, both are messy environments full of messed-up people striving to be less so." - Steve Chalke<BR/><BR/>http://dharmakara.wordpress.com/2007/08/22/messy-sangha/<BR/><BR/>I like the idea of spiritual communities being "messy environments full of messed-up people striving to be less so" - its certainly what i would look for, (and think i have found), in a buddhist sangha.Ray Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16839000583738213251noreply@blogger.com