The Church today has abandoned its formative heritage,
surrendered to human concerns for position and for power.
It has built ecclesiastical castles of medieval might,
become the very beast that Jesus challenged.

The Church today has been conquered by a bounded theology,
which bars progress and any originality in its conceptions;
has reverted to medieval perceptions and priestly domination.

In doing so it has established fixed practices,
ways of doing things that stifle initiative;
that turn spontenaity of worship into a routine;
presented with a minimum of risk and clerical effort.

The Church today has abandonned the path of Jesus;
lost both truth and adherents on its way.