Church is a group of broken individuals united only by our brokenness traveling together to ask to be fixed. It's like a subway car. It's like the DMV. It's like The Wizard of Oz: we are each missing something, and there is a man in a flowing robe whom we trust to hand that something over.
(And I know — I know — that the problem with this metaphor is that, in The Wizard of Oz, there wasn't actually anyone with magical powers behind the curtain. I get it.)
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