O, What’s a Church to Do?

O, What’s a Church to Do?

O, what’s a church to do?
Socialize, proselytize,
Empathize or try?
Congregate, segregate,
Stagnate or die?
Trivialize, patronize,
Criticize old and new.
Organize to fraternize,
O, what’s a church to do?

O, what’s a church to feel?
Heartless and merciless,
Clearly effortless we try.
Motionless, oblivious,
To the needs brought before our eyes.
A philosophy of apathy
In sympathy we kneel,
But the prayer ends before “Amen,”
O, what’s a church to feel?

O, what’s a church to say?
Promised peace and great relief
When none remains in sight?
Health, wealth, and prosperity
While people around us die?
Be warm and be filled, peace bestill
From comfortably afar we can pray,
Come and see not go and tell,
O, what’s a church to say?

O, what’s a church to be?
A social club, a friendly hub,
A place to come and hide?
Warm smiles abound, for those who’ve been found
But lacking for those outside?
Or perhaps a chance to take a stance
Once we have arisen from our callous knees?
The hands and feet, taking Christ to the streets,
O what’s a church to be?

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© Travis Agnew.  2009.