When Church Doesn’t Meet Your Expectations

Title: Artspace: When Church Doesn’t Meet Your Expectations
Artwork by: YMI
Description: So many of us are looking for the “right” church that would feel like a good fit. Even though we’ve heard it so many times: “The church is not perfect!”, we can’t seem to stop hoping (expecting) that there will be that one church for us. 

Perhaps the bigger question we need to ask ourselves is: are we holding on to the right expectations when it comes to church and community?

Project is adapted from original articles:

When Church Doesn’t Meet Your Expectations As a pastor, I’m used to hearing from people that they feel disconnected from their (or our) church, even if they are deeply involved. Their experience simply hasn’t measured up to what they had hoped it might be. If you feel disconnected from your church, you’re not alone.

A Pastor’s Letter to the Church: It’s Not All About You Dear Church, I’m writing to you to express, what is for me, one of the greatest challenges of ministry: I want to please you. All throughout the Gospel, Jesus tells us to love our neighbors, our enemies, and each other. You can’t be a true minister of the Gospel without loving people. And when you love people, there is a strange internal desire to please them, to make them happy.