Anyone can criticize. It takes little faith to join the ranks of the harping and habitual complainers. Yet, what we find most fascination is that, indeed, much improvement it needed in others...and within ourselves. Jesus has always been keen on each of us removing the beam from our own eye first before assisting the neighbor.
Do things need to change? Improve? Advance?
Most certainly. Activation is needed; our activation. Self-evaluation will often lead to the root problem among us. Are we accusatory? Self-indulging? Ignorantly judgmental? Have we slipped into a form of godliness while denying it's intended power...just as Bible expresses that such will happen?
There's a lot wrong with the church. At the very same time, there is very much right about it. One of the latter truths is that we are becoming more confessional about our own personal weakness. Problems are not a "they" issue. It is a "we" reduced more pertinently to "me". Until we hang our hats and our hopes on the literal activity of Jesus in today's experience, we will find ourselves striving without effectivity.
If we could apply ourselves to improvement, progress has a spiritual chance. Wagging tongues will lose their strength. Personal evaluation will shut our mouths. Faith in God will become prominent. Thanksgiving will flood the community rather than selective gripes.
If we apply ourselves to improvement, others will have more room to be encouraged to do the same.
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