God's Forgetful Pilgrims: Recalling the Church to Its Reason for Being

"Christians, collectively, seem to be suffering from a strange amnesia. A high proportion of people who go to church have forgotten what it's all for. Week by week, they attend services in a special building and go through their particular time-honored routine, but give little thought to the purpose of what they are doing. The Bible talks about the bride of Christ, but the church today seems like a ragged Cinderella, hideous among the ashes...She has forgotten that she's supposed to be growing up to be a beautiful lady." ~Griffiths