A pastor was having coffee with a friend when he was asked about his Church membership. "We have eight hundred members," he said. "How many are active members?" the friend asked. "All of them," the pastor replied..."Half are working with me, the other half are working against me." He then spelled it out in what he calls a “washbasin theology.”
"In the story of Jesus' Passion,” the pastor explained, “Jesus showed the disciples by His example what to do about His Presence in their lives. He called for a basin and proceeded to wash their feet. When Pontius Pilate had to decide what to do about Jesus' Presence in his life, he called for a basin and proceeded to wash his hands of the whole thing."
In the Gospel we read, "Anyone who is not against us is for us" (Mk. 9:40). In Matthew, Jesus says, "He who is not with Me is against Me, and He who does not gather with Me scatters" (Mt. 12:30).
Both sayings deliver the same message: when it comes down to the unvarnished truth about Jesus and Christianity, the Gospel is never neutral. Unlike membership in ordinary man-made institutions, any notion of inactive Church members, passive Church members, even “Frenemy” Church members, is a contradiction.
Which one do you see when you look in a mirror? Doesn't really matter, as long as you accept that Lord and Saviour presence in your life.
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