The Church is not Sexy Enough

Now for the caption of this email. I was at a Bible study tonight and there were some Germans there. We were looking at commitment and at one point started to look at the reason while 80% of 18 years old in the UK don't return to church. After we spoke for a while one of the Germans, a female, said "The church is not sexy enough." The truth is there is a sense that the Bride of Christ should be sexy enough to cause people to be attracted to her. The members of this body should be functioning and healthy enough to attract and allure. But there is also another side of her being the body of Christ that she will bare evidence of His scars by her challenge to purity that others won't find her sexy. She is in ideology and deed a stranger in this world. Finding the balance even in our own lives is not the easiest this to do, but I think it is necessary.