We heard such a powerful
message, and it summarizes so much of what we have fought against the last 4-5
years, not just in the churches where we have been “pastor” and “pastor’s wife”
but also in ones we have had the opportunity to visit when we’ve been on
vacation, etc.
It was an interesting sermon
considering it was around the time of turning in pledge cards, but we could
totally relate!
Don’t support a church that
is so scared of people that they focus on people pleasing and lose fear of the
Lord! When a church is afraid to lose
those who are there and have lost focus on scripture in the process...Yikes!
When trying not to offend folks is a focus…RUN!
When a visitor comes and gets told they need to move cause you are in
his/her seat….Deep Breath! A complaint is made, but congregants respond with “Oh, that’s
just ____ (so and so…insert name). Wow,
what damage to His kingdom! Or when the
same group of people don’t like pastor after pastor after pastor so they keep
running them off… “Oh, that’s just _____ (insert name(s)). Then, those same
people try their best to ruin a pastor’s (and family’s) reputation. A church who you shouldn’t support are too
focused on “keeping instead of reaching.”
OR
Don’t support a church if
they have decided “a new kind of gospel” is better than what scripture
states. Junk instead of truth is being
preached. Our church knows best over scripture… If what the church says about marriage,
sex, eternity, etc. doesn’t match what scripture says, RUN.
OR
Don’t support a church when
the person in the pulpit thinks they are higher in nobility than the One
proclaimed.
YOU WANT A CHURCH THAT IS
DOING IN HISTORY WHAT WE WILL ALL BE DOING FOR ETERNITY.
When boundaries and barriers
are demolished and folks are gazing at the Lamb who bled out for all, support
that church. Focus is on Christ and not
the crowd.
When a church is “Christ
centered,” support it! (There should be
no other kind of church out there!)
When generational diversity
fills the church with blessings and wisdom to share with all, support that
church. Sometimes this can be difficult
if that means changing part or all of a service so that the church will be
multi-generational.
When you continue to want to
improve and be better than you are now because of who you worship with and have
fellowship with, that’s a HUGE plus. If
you don’t want to be better than you are today, what’s the point?
When a church is able to buy
a campus that would otherwise have been a dead church, how cool is that?
God is the same yesterday,
today, now, and forever. Does the church
you attend believe the same thing? How
does your church share the TRUTH of scripture, even during the hard or controversial
times?
YOU WANT A CHURCH THAT IS
DOING IN HISTORY WHAT WE WILL ALL BE DOING FOR ETERNITY.
