A Love Letter to Christians Who Can’t Take the Sunday Production Anymore

Ponder Anew ^ | MAY 24, 2017 | JONATHAN AIGNER

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[Jim W N]

Unfortunately, the church and much of formal Christian religion has offered the law mixed with grace. That is a deadly mixture and people are tired of it.

Come back to the unadulterated Gospel of the Grace of Jesus Christ by whom came grace and truth and from whom the New Covenant of NO CONDEMNATION is preached in scripture and increasingly around the world as the end-tines Grace Revolution is spread abroad by the Holy Spirit.

[seastay]

If people only worship, fellowship and pray on Sunday's, only one morning a week, i can see how they might be disappointed not getting everything they need all in a single service.

[sparklite2]

bothered by the blatant emotional manipulation

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Otherwise known as ‘sermons.’

[fulltlt]

Been there - done that. We went to a church bent on becoming a mega church. Everything was a big production. Collecting Gawd’s tithe was commanded from the pulpit on every possible occasion, Sunday, Wed. night Bible study, Christmas, Easter, etc. Big guilt tripping. We left. The church we attend now is much smaller, collects no offerings, and teaches from the Bible only.

[PeterPrinciple]

Grace without repentance doesn’t get you very far..............

Luk 24:47 It was also written that this message would be proclaimed in the authority of His name to all the nations, beginning in Jerusalem: ‘There is forgiveness of sins for all who repent.’

[Bodleian_Girl]

Why the Church Doesn’t Need Any More Starbucks.

http://faithit.com/church-doesnt-need-starbucks-kimberli-lira/

[Bodleian_Girl]

Can’t very well read your bible in the dark though, can you?

[XEHRpa]

> Grace without repentance doesn’t get you very far..............

It is what Bonhoeffer referred to as “cheap grace.”

[sparklite2]

If they don’t take tithes, how do they pay the minister?
Do they meet in someone’s home?

[Songcraft]

"The church we attend now is much smaller, collects no offerings, and teaches from the Bible only."

That's the first time in my life that I ever heard of a church that collects no offerings.   That jumped right out at me, and, frankly, was was quite shocking to read.

If you don't mind my asking, is that church part of a larger denomination, or is it a one-of-a-kind, non-denominational church, or what?

[af_vet_1981]

Jonathan Aigner

About Jonathan Aigner
Jonathan Aigner holds a music degree from Baylor University in Texas and a Master of Arts in theology from Wheaton College in Illinois. He is an elementary school music teacher and the traditional worship minister at a United Methodist church. Kelsey and Jonathan live in the Houston, Texas area with their beloved dog.

[Safrguns]

>>> Unfortunately, the church and much of formal Christian religion has offered the law mixed with grace. That is a deadly mixture and people are tired of it.

yeah... They preach “Jesus”, but teach works.

[TADSLOS]

Find a place where you can sit and rest and not be triggered.

A Safe Space?

[BipolarBob]

Unfortunately, the church and much of formal Christian religion has offered the law mixed with grace. That is a deadly mixture and people are tired of it.

They are both products of God. Complain to Him if you like. But both are here eternally. Paul wrote Do we, then, nullify the Law by this faith? By no means! Instead, we uphold the Law. Romans 3:31

[fulltlt]

There is a box in the back of the church that you can give or not as you wish. They never pass an offering basket or mention tithing. It is a non-denominational church. We meet in a brick and mortor building that was once a Lutheran church until they outgrew it and our church bought it.

[\/\/ayne]

There's an hour long "Hymn Time" radio show in the morning on Sundays here so I can worship comprehensively with some old time hymns before I get to church for sometimes incomprehensible modern Christian music. Sometimes it's very comprehensible, but not always.

This interesting song Words Enough is actually about singing in fellowship, some of it verbatim from Ephesians 18 and 19. It's sung by the man and his daughter that wrote it.

[fulltlt]

We sing hymns in our church. I so do not like the modern songs that are a lot of vain repetition.

[refreshed]

Box in the back is how we do it. I’ve heard visitors whisper to church members “when do they pass the plate?”