The Church, It is all about Me?

I was over on another Pastor’s blog and was introduced to this video, The Me Church. It is a humorous exaggeration and reflection of the way some churches operate and how many think the church should function. It raises the questions, what is the purpose of the church?, what should I expect from the church?, how if at all should the church be marketed?, what is my responsibility within the church?, and even what is the church? It has been a lasting concern of mine that we have defined or allowed the church to be defined as a brick building, an organization or institution, or even a pastor, when in reality it is a body of people. Now there has been almost an entire generation of church goers that have been introduced to what a church is only in the Me driven market. The church has bent over backwards to attract the lost. Have we bent over so far that we have stopped being the church? Well so much for it being a humorous video.