Ever dream you could go back into high school and relive your glory days. Or maybe you were a shy person and the thought of going back to be a social butterfly has passed your mind a time or two. What about a school that had no teachers and no authority. Imagine a place today where nobody tells you what you are doing is wrong and you can all join together and remake your high school songs into songs that make you feel like the center of the universe. Imagine!!!!!
Yes, you have a hole that we can fix!
Are you hurt, do you need a place to belong?
We want to help put all the pieces together!
What has Jesus become?
To the American church, Jesus is just a life enhancer not a savior. You may ask, how is that? Well churches in large today present Jesus Christ as the one who will fix there marriage, fix there financial situation, give them purpose, give them hope, give them love, love, love, love. So they come to Jesus and give it a try.
The Problem......SIN.
People must come to Jesus as Lord and Savior not some kind of wishing star.
What happens.....Trials, tribulation, persecution, funny we don't tell them about any of that.
Churches now are filled with unconverted, hip, party goers and the church fills up with theses people and at the same time the leaders keep going for the next wave of the same people. For one purpose....to fill up there church with more people.
Now keep in mind the church messages are geared to get unconverted people in the door. So once they get in the door they get to hear more messages toward those on the outside to feel like Christianity is cool and hip and relevant (of course). Growth occurs only by joining a small group and even then the books and DVDs are all geared toward the unsaved and so they dry up and become unconverted older people.
What premise to you build your church on? Filling it up with unsaved people and training them how to reach out and bring in more unsaved people who train them to reach in to bring more unsaved people and nobody gets converted but they come to Jesus as a life enhancement and a place to belong!!!
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Do you do what the New Testament Church does. Do church for believers and not market it as a tool for evangelism? You bring in believers (sure non believers can come in if they wish) but you strengthen each other and preach, teach and train others to grow in holiness and send them into there jobs, homes, schools to reach a dying world and come back and do it again each blessed Sunday.
Which one are you?
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