... About "Church-Hopping"

(NOTE: since nobody contributed with another thankless job from yesterday’s post, we are veering away from that on to more important things.)

It’s interesting what C.S. Lewis says about “church-hopping” 60+ years ago. I am all for finding a church where you can serve and use your gifts. I do not support searching until I find one that “suits” me. If you live anywhere outside of the “Bible Belt” there aren’t many options of where to go. You are “stuck with the people you are stuck with. You make it work. And sometimes (most times) you are the better for it.

[Screwtape the Demon]: If a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighborhood looking for the church that "suits" him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches. The reasons are obvious. In the first place the parochial organization should always be attacked, because, being a unity of place and not of likings, it brings people of different classes and psychology together in the kind of unity the Enemy desires. The congregational principle, on the other hand, makes each church into a kind of club, and finally, if all goes well, into a coterie or faction. In the second place, the search for a "suitable" church makes the man a critic where the Enemy wants him to be a pupil. (The Screwtape Letters, New York: Macmillan, 1942, XVI, 72-73)

Have a great day serving Him right where you are!