When it is said about someone that they are "looking for love in all the wrong places", the reference is usually to places like bars and clubs, or the arms of other people who are considered unsuitable. And implied by the phrase, is that there are "right places" to look for love. Yet I don't recall ever having heard discussions or presentations about the "right places", except perhaps in an ultra-spiritualized way.
The right places to look for love. Ironically, one both expects - and doesn't expect - a church to be a place to find love. We expect it because we know it should be that way. We don't expect it because we know it often isn't that way.
And so, for Jonesy and others, the church might well be the wrong place to look for love. Pretty sad, I'd say.
Check out an earlier related post.
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