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In this Pentecost 24 sermon on Mark 13:1 Clay focuses on the failure of the Church to be the kingdom and how that failure has led to its redundancy.\n\n"When I was beginning my ministry a quarter century ago these trends were suggested but today it is abundantly clear that, as Don Cupitt puts it, \u201ctraditional Church-Christianity is well past its sell-by date. Too dualistic, too otherworldly and too disciplinarian. It makes too many inflated claims on its own behalf.\u201d [1] I would add that it is too concerned about preserving itself. It might be able to be preserved like last summer's fruit, but it will still be dead." Full text at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/?sid=256&id=671.