All confidence in the church has been lost by me, I said. You'll be standing right along Jesus in the end, he said. Details

The nice looking couple a little older than me were parked by the side of the highway obviously hoping that I would stop and speak. That's quite a rig, how are you today? Not well, I replied honestly, I'm watching everything decent on Earth be destroyed. They nodded, surprised, but in some sympathy with what I said I think. I went on, what keeps me going is trying to breathe life into a soul here or there. It kills me that I can't do more but I can try to do that so I do. She said, do you speak at churches? All hope and confidence in churches has been lost by me, I said. As a matter of fact, I believe that the same was with Jesus. My understanding is that he refused the church group of his day, the synagogue, and he refused the entreaty of his biological family and apostles to form a new one. This is why he never stayed in one place more than a day. He refused to join or form a group, a clan, a club, because that would mean leaving his real family, all of creation, all human beings. While relating this I watched their faces and would gladly have stopped short if I saw distress. I saw surprise but not distress. But do you feel peace, the man asked me? Yes I said, and all the pain of the world right in my chest. You will be standing alongside Jesus in the end he said. Neither of them seemed at all like religious zealots in any way.