Lets all play Church. Lets pretend we really care about sinners by making evangelism and discipleship priorities in word or on paper only. Lets talk about how we sure do wish people would become Christians and join our church even though we do not feel called or qualified to tell one person per year about how Jesus loved them and died for them. Lets keep throwing around the word discipleship while we continue to find better things to do than attend prayer meetings, Bible studies, or evening worship services. Lets all play Church.
Lets say how important our children are.
Lets rail against the evils of children living in poverty. Lets make children our personal and corporate crusade. And then whenever someone has the audacity to question other aspects of our theology lets hide behind the children deflecting the criticism by asking how a discussion on theology feeds a hungry child. Lets continue to offer condolences to those who lose loved ones but ask or expect the mother who loses an unborn child to take her turn in the church nursery days or weeks after her loss. She did not lose a child, she merely had an unexpected termination of her pregnancy.