The Church, Organi...which will it be?(part 3)

We are driven by success. Our will is to succeed. In whatever we're doing we want to be successful. That's fine. That's natural. That's how we're born. But the problem arises when we attempt to operate independently in the church from within our will. Our will needs to be surrendered, that it may come under the authority of God's will. However, God does not want to simply strip us of our humanity; no, he wants to capitalize on it, and channel it into spiritual fruit, not meaningless, temporal man-made success. Fruit focuses on what the Spirit is doing while success focuses on what man is accomplishing in his own strength and will. So when we are talking about success in the church, we are focusing on what we can accomplish in our own strength and will. And since it goes against our grain to hear that we need to surrender our will to God's will, we try to carry out God's mission in our own will. The challenge to submit and surrender has been too much for us, so that now, we try to operate in and please both wills. We have translated the fruit into the success, so that we can have the best of both worlds. We are trying to carry out God's mission in our own strength. We are trying to produce fruit while talking about success. We are trying to operate in the church with one foot in the Spirit and one foot in our will. If this all sounds like nonsense or semantics then why is it that the church talks more about success than fruit? Why is it, then, that the church buildings are growing more than the people within them? Why is it, then, that we are more concerned about selling our programs and products than being people of prayer and purpose? Since we are born with a will to be lords over our own lives, we are driven to succeed in and of ourselves, so that we can be proud of what we have accomplished in and of ourselves. The observation in the culture of our society's church community: the church talks more about success than fruit...why is that?