Thoughts on the state of the church today

The church in Florida (or wherever) planning a Koran-burning really ought to consider something; in order to burn one, you must first own one.  To own one--absent an Islamic version of the "Gideons"--you must buy one.  When you buy a Koran, you are enriching those who are promoting Islam.

Promoting Islam is an odd way of working against it.

In church, we are encouraged to taste and see that the Lord is good--and then at the Lord's Supper, we too often get cardboard-like "communion wafers" which do not resemble the unleavened flatbread Jesus used at all.  If we wonder why churches often do so badly at catechizing their members and discipling new believers, could it be in part because the way we run ministries does not engage the senses in the way the Scriptures suggest we ought to?    It's a rare person who can appreciate the goodness of the Lord merely from the preaching of the Word, especially if the speaker has no sense of how to speak and a wooden delivery.  One does not need to subscribe to the doctrine of transsubstantiation (I sure don't) or desire a theatrical performance to understand that worship, and the Christian life, ought to involve all five senses.