Tuesday

He has made us a king-dom 

of priests to serve ou God.  Canticle 18

 “What’s your book going to be about?” I was asked.... 

“It’s going to be about how the institutional church has missed the mark of what it ought to be about.” I replied. 

“The  institutional church?”” he puzzled.

“What other church is there?”  

“The people of God,” I replied. “The baptized community.” 

...The little band, the church in St Paul’s day, needed an organization, a structure, an institution to maintain itself, but the institution took over the little band... 

I believe that Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah, he by whom the reign of God has been made known - and he whom the institutional church, from the resurrection community to the present day, has rejected since the day of his death in favor of something more reasonable, more controlled and more controllable...

The institution has missed its high calling because we the people have missed ours.” 

Verna Dozier, The Dream of God