The Church is failing . It is losing market share. Its customers are going elsewhere.
The Church has lost control of the narrative of salvation. It has dropped the ball. The story has slipped through its fingers. The Church is no longer the storyteller in chief.
Fewer and fewer are listening to it. The story now belongs to others.
How did this sad state of affairs come to be?
God entrusted the Church with a blockbuster to tell. Instead of telling the blockbuster, the Church decided to tell minor stories. The Church went off on tangents. It left the main road to pursue minor roads. Its audience lost interest.
Instead of feeding us the blockbuster, our clerics are feeding us with junk food
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For the Church to regain the position of storyteller in chief, it must return to the telling of the core narrative. It must stop following red herrings down the side roads and return to the main road. The main road is the road from the Crucifixion to the Resurrection. There, Jesus did not tell us about God. He showed us God. He put on a dramatic demonstration of divinity. What does the dramatic demonstration of divinity that took place on the road from the Crucifixion to the Resurrection tell us about our God?
A company with the best merchandise or the best services but no customers is a failure