Don't walk away

It seems in the Church in the west at the moment there is a failure of leadership to live up to the model for ministry laid down in scripture. Recently John Piper was interviewed about this and he acknowledged that this is the case but it is not unique in church history. Jesus representatives have always had failures amongst them. He pointed out that Paul was glad the gospel was being preached even if some where preaching it out of envy or for Paul to have a harder time in prison.

 Piper speaks to those who have been hurt by Church leaders, which in some respects is probably all of us at some point in our lives:

' To walk away from Jesus because Jesus representatives are failures is to make an absurd choice. Jesus is our only hope. That He has bad representatives (including me at times) doesn't make Jesus defective, Jesus is the one person in the universe who has no defects, no failures. If you walk away from the one person who has no failures because His representatives have failures, you are walking away from the one hope of your life.' John Piper