Father Snort

Bishop Doyle has said that the church does not have a mission, rather, "God's mission has a church" in order to live out that mission. God's mission is to reconcile all things to himself, and that is the mission that the church was formed to live out. Sometimes, however, we lose our way and forget what God's mission is. Not long ago, I spoke with a young woman who had grown up in the church and then fell away from the church during college. This was largely because she was with a campus church group for a while, but when she revealed to them that she was not a virgin, they told her that she was no longer a Christian, and they kicked her out. They did a very effective job too, because she is now not a part of any church and barely even nominally Christian. They replaced God with their morality and put it in the place of God's mission to reconcile all things to himself. I wonder if they had John 3:1-7 in mind when they kicked this young woman out of the church. "Everyone who commits