His Description of the Church is: "All but sewage."

When you think about the church, how many of you think, “Whoa, not a pretty scene”? I was just interacting with somebody last night on social media who has, unfortunately, left the church. He said his description of the church is all but sewage, and I get it because we have allowed the world's ideology about sin to influence us. We do not love each other in the church as God has demonstrated for us. Could you imagine the world watching us and saying, “Man, I have never seen people who are so forgiving and patient and kind. They just give up everything all the time. That kind of love is the strangest thing.” And Jesus says, “Yes, because the world does not love like that.” Can you imagine: there are children, there are moms and dads, there are people in this room that the only experience they've ever had in relationships has been abusive, manipulative, damaging, and fearful? Can you imagine what it would feel like to have someone in this church love you the way God loves? Can you imagine how that would change a life forever? And then they ask you, “Why do you care for me like this? Why do you love me like this?” And your response is, “I just want to show you how God loves me. There's no greater joy in my life than to know that you can experience the same love that I have experienced.” Church, we’re not convinced of it yet, but every week we come, and we open up, and we sing, and we look at the cross. We look to his sacrifice. We sing of love, yet we let the world dictate what love looks like. And church, I'm just not going to do it anymore. Too many people are enslaved with selfishness, fear, and peer pressure, and they're destroying their children and their marriages.