What's wrong with the Church? This is a question which is heard frequently, posed by Christians and non-believers. It is increasingly evident in a world which has lost all sense of the reality of God and of His order of life that the Church has, to a large extent, lost its sense of mission to the world.

What is the Church? It is the "ekklesia"—the community of believers who belong to God and have been called by God to be "the salt of the earth." In Christ, God was "reconciling the world unto Himself' so that "all who believe in Him should not perish but have eternal life."

Through the Church, God works by his Holy Spirit to make that redemption manifest to the world. The Church, then, by its very nature and calling, has a misson to the world.

However, the physical manifestations of the "fellowship of believers"—the institutions as we know them—imply that the Church is existing for itself. The Church in the world seems to have become mainly a body of worship divided into two distinct groups—the clergy and the laity.