I've been in Church all my life, I've served, I've lead and I've been units member etc.
I have meet different people who treated me differently based on their view of who I am.
I've been insulted,
I've been respected
I've been hunted, and I've been appreciated
I have seen love in church
I have seen hatred in church
I have seen selfishness
And I've seen selflessness
I've seen men that gives peanut and amplified it in every sermon they preached.
And I've seen people who ask you not to mentioned after they give you a mansion.
I have sowed seeds yet nothing happened, in fact , I became more broke. On the other hands, I have sowed seeds whose harvest I would never claim ignorant, it worked!
I have seen mortal men who mad themselves "the way, the truth and the life", I have also seen men who had all yet considered themselves nothing.
I have seen men stage lies and called it Miracles,
And I have experience Miracles personally.
I have studied and observed while in church, and I have taken breaks from church to study the church from the outside without any human manipulation.
In all these, one fact is sooth...
The building is not the church.
The people you meet inside are not the church.
The Church is in the inside.
And because of our imperfections, the church struggles to find expression.
It can be frustrating expecting to meet "perfect" people in church.
... And THE CHURCH IS NOT A PERFECT PLACE FOR PERFECT PEOPLE.
The Church is like a hospital.
In hospital you'll see all manner of sick people.
If you see a healthy person in a hospital, chances are he's trying to stay fit so not to fall sick or to check a love one there. So also it is in the Church.
Moral Lesson : Look unto Jesus, He is all you need to see in the Church.