What does it mean to be a practicing Christian?
I sat in a meeting recently where a fellow church member said that the Church has to acknowledge that we've failed. She was speaking in terms of youth ministry and the Church's inability to keep up with the times, but I thought her statement was more profound than that. Rather than closing the door on the conversation (Well, good try folks, but oh well!), she was using failure as an opening ... an opening to try again, to try harder, to do better. Being a Christian isn't like