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Holy Church 26

A clown doll on a chair Pseudo-religions support TV financially. Unwittingly, parts of the Christian Church and other religions have helped television in its evangelization efforts. By using its religious channels, T. V. keeps people from going to a conventional church. At the same time, these pseudo-religions support TV financially - very well financially. They use this income to further undermine their followers' beliefs. TV knows that once they get people into their own sanctuaries even to listen to their own leaders, they will stay and eventually join them. The weakness of T. V. is that it cannot give people a caring Christian community, a face-to-face meeting which is essential to the Faith.

Transcendental Doves in Flight The Christian Church has forgotten the transcendent nature of religion. T. V. supplies people with fantasy rather than reality. Most Christians have not even realized that the television church exists yet! At the beginning of the Twenty First Century, we are discovering a fresh model to reach this culturally enslaved society. The successful plan is not so much something new, but the rediscovery of an older Biblical idea, the Body of Christ. She will not replace but will drastically overhaul the institutional format we have been using since the fourth century. Lorne Mead recognizes the problem but does not envisage the answer. He writes, "I believe that we are being called to be midwives for a new church, working to help our present forms and structures give birth to forms appropriate for the new mission of the church."

The Mystical Body of Jesus Christ

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