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A Tale of Two Church Members
There is a common conversation that takes place in churches.
Two friends meet over lunch and one says to the other, we are leaving the church…
Why?
(The first is always deeply hurt and the other is always deeply surprised.)
Conversation usually follows the same basic script.
Well when we started, we had a great connection to the pastor and the messages always dealt with right were we were living.
But lately, we are not being fed.
We feel like church is a waist of time...
I call this the devils script...
Now there are some good people in the church.
(Beware of people who put themselves intentionally on some moral high ground with a precious few others because it’s not moral high ground but a pedestal about to topple).
But MOST are nothing but hypocrites!
There are two kinds of church members…
Church stats
Nine out of 10 churches in America are growing at a pace that is slower than their own communities.
Mose are actually declining rather then growing at all.
Builder generation: born before 1946 - 75% were christian
Millennials: born between 1980 and 2000 - 15% are christian
We have all but lost that generation!
We can blame it on Secular culture
Polotics
Hollywood
Or is the problem to be found in the church itself?
The problem of the declining church is a problem that can only be solved from within the church!
In the next few weeks, I am going to be proposing that we spend time looking in the mirror at a church.
Asking ourselves some hard questions.
Because I am coming to the conclusion that society is in the mess that it not because the Devil is strong and sin is rampant but because the church is weak!
I am suggesting that we as members of the body of Christ look into the mirror and carefully asses what is happening on our pews, consider our own ideas and thoughts on what church is all about.
Ask ourselves some questions:
What does it mean to be a part of the body of Christ?
Is church about what I can get on Sunday?
Is it about making me feel better to counter the bad decisions I’ve make all week?
When did church become about what I can get rather than what I can give?
If we can identify that moment, then we can identify the moment that we, the church, began to fail our communities!
It is our responciliblty to get back to a Godly definition of what we should be as a church!
14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
When we find it easier to identify the failure of our brothers and sisters than to identify the last time we spent time in prayer...
We are the hypocrites in the pew!
God did not extend membership in the church so that we could have special members privileges...
The only privileges are those we could not give ourselves.
Forgiveness of sin, healing, blessing
But he placed us in the church to serve others, pray for leadership, learn, give and sometimes even die for the sake of His Kingdom!
Churches are weak because we have changed the meaning of membership.
Time to get it right!
Time to be the church that God intended!
Time to give rather than give!
(KJV 1900)
35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Why is it that the church has become about the things we get?
I don’t like the music, I like the music...
The preaching was great today, pastor obviously didn’t spend enough time in prayer this week because that was a waist of time!
In the next little while, we are going to take a journey of discovery!
Learn two things…
1. Learn about the privilege of belonging to the Body of Christ and what that means to the local assembly!
Going to be a time of Commitment
Time to renew your attitude toward coming to church.
Learn the joy of coming to the House of God.
Find out that all the things that distract you are not problems in the church buy opportunities for you to minister.
Ministering is not fixing!
I can’t fix you...
God can’t fix you!
Only you through the power of the Holy Ghost can fix you!
2. When you change, the church changes!
That’s a really nice way of saying “You’re the problem”!
Strongs Concordance:
Mote: Karpho = a dry twig or straw — mote
Beam: dokos = a stick of timber - beam
If you are quick to see what is wrong then it’s because you are squinting past this huge beam in your own eye!
Conclusion:
I want God to be a tour guide for the next few weeks as we take a journey on what it is to be a member of the body of Christ and it’s connection to the House of God.
God put 5-layered check and balance in place to grow, guide and protect us:
People of God
Fellowship
Encouragement
Done in your home, coffee shop, social media, attending rallies and conferences
Sharpeneth: Shape, be fierce with
We’ve always interpreted that as no one knows how to hurt you like a friend does...
Better interpreted would have been, A true friend will always tell you the truth!
2. House of God
Local assembly
Teaching
Correction
Guidance
Heb 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
3. Spirit of God
Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit
Quickening spirit
Quickening = to make alive, give live to
4. Man of God
Most seen in the church is the Pastor - but he is a member of the Five Fold MInistry
Apostles, Prophets, Evangelist, Pastor, Teacher
Perform the work of ministry
Prayer
Study
In doing so they “feed the flock of God”
5. Word of God
15 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. 5. Word of God
15 And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. 5. Word of God
a. Final authority for everything!
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