Dear Church,
I hate you!
I hate what you are, and what you are not!
I hate what you have become, and what you once were!
I hate where you are going and that you don't even know it!
I hate what you once were and that you lost your way!
I hate how your own people have betrayed you!
I hate how you no longer stand for what is good!
I hate how your people have lost their way!
I hate how you have been basterdized and prostituted to the world!
I hate how you have been perverted!
I hate how hyporcritical you are!
I hate how homophobic, racist and selective you are!
I hate how your people only want to be apart of you one day a week!
I hate that your people are starving but your people wont help them!
I hate for the lost where your people are no where to be found!
I hate how far from your purpose you have come!
I hate that your people have lost their focus!
I hate how broken you are!
I hate how your people cannot even talk to eachother because of doctrine!
I hate how you are divided and distant!
I hate how irelevant you have become!
I hate how it has become the church of me and no longer the church of thee!
I hate how your small victories seem to pale in comparisson to your great injustices!
I hate how outreach is so out of reach!
I hate how your will has been for gotten and my will the only one that matters!
I hate that you have become come to me instead of go to the world!
I hate that your supper is no longer sacred but a sunday morning snack!
I hate how your baptism has become a swim in the lake!
I hate that Christ died for this!
I hate that that is still not enough for some!
I hate that salvation has become selective!
I hate that your commands have become insufficient!
I hate how love your brother only applies to the ones you like and know!
I hate that marriage has become an institution!
I hate that you have become Emerald City!
I hate that your pastors have become complacent!
I hate your past!
I hate your present!
I hate your future!
I hate how you have lost what is true!
I hate that the world hates you!
I hate that your own people hate you!
I hate most of all that I hate you, and that makes me hate you all the more!
I hate that more of your people don't hate you!
Because if they did they could change you!
They could change you back into what you were ment to be!
And if they could change you back, they could change the world!
But maybe it is not you I hate, but me?
Maybe I am the one that needs to change?
Maybe if I changed others would follow?
If others follow, maybe you will change?
If you change, maybe the world can change?
I am not many but I am one!
But this one can be many if I reflect the Son!
A servant of Christ,
Matthew Murray
