What will we do with our failures?Delete the document!Delete the delete!Erase the blackboard!Rub it out!Use ‘White-out’ on it!Disfellowship it!Excommunicate them!Blacklist him/her!Make them a non-entity!Pretend they don’t exist! What are you talking about?I didn’t do it!I’m not guilty in this incident!They did it!They are guilty!They made their bed, let them sleep in it!What do you mean, “our failures?”They failed, not me! It is not individual failure alone.It is institutional failure also.The “institution” must share the blame, shoulder part of the load, and except the fact that we have birthed our own failures, engineered our own defeats, and aborted the very instruments that could have lived and not died.

May the healers mentality and attitude grip us all. It’s not about Mercedes, Jaguar’s and Lincolns; it’s not about fine mansions, mega-churches, and posturing for the public eye; it’s about souls that are hurting, and victims that need mending from trauma and wounds; it’s about the forgotten Apostolic Prisoner’s of War, APOW’s if you please, that we need to get out of their prisons and restore them to ministries, albeit scarred and manifesting the past ravages of sin.

A fictional allegory denoting the trend to shut down all small churches and merge them with the larger more marketable church plant that offers ease of service.