Posted on 06/23/2018 5:43:33 AM PDT by HarleyD
At a time when church attendance is shrinking in America, I, a pastor, am encouraging people to quit church. Why?
The answer is birthed out of conversations and research I’ve been a part of over the last several years.
Regularly, I meet and train pastors and church leaders from all over the country through my leadership platform, ChurchBOOM. The conversations carry a common theme – a lot of people who attend church are passive towards serving, giving and community outreach.
In most churches, 80 percent of the work is being carried out by 20 percent or less of the people. We’ve become a church of spectators and the pastoral staff is getting burned out.
According to my own personal research, the problems are even bigger than the 80/20 principle.
Only 39 percent of active believers consider the Bible as the literal word of God. Less than 20 percent of professing believers follow the biblical principle of giving. Only 5 percent have shared their faith with a non-believer. More than half of all church members attend church once a month or less.
Something has to change.
Casual attendance and the belief that others will serve, give and share the Gospel are tearing down churches across our country brick by brick. As believers, it’s time that we are either all in or we get out. The solution is simple: quit!
That’s right – quit! If we quit the casual way we approach God’s principles can you imagine what would happen in our personal walks of faith and in our community of believers?
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Be a fanatic or be gone, he said.
[In most churches, 80 percent of the work is being carried out by 20 percent or less of the people.]
This is true of virtually any organization.
We’ve become a church of spectators and the pastoral staff is getting burned out.
If they want to get "burned out" they should try teaching or being a police officer.
Might as well quit them. “Churches” have become the latest weapon being used against America by the DNC. Even Schmucky Schumer has recently admitted that he is colluding with someone he calls “God” to bring down President Trump. It’s a mixed up, wild and wacky world out there. Insanity now rules.
To add...
1 percent are Treasonist!
“y’all go ahead ‘n’ go where you are led, son, ‘n’ I will read the reports”
Stated by “one of the members” of a 1988 Pentecostal church I used to frequent.
The problem is long-toothed, well-rooted, and has been the norm for a long time.
“[In most churches, 80 percent of the work is being carried out by 20 percent or less of the people.]
This is true of virtually any organization.”
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And it pretty much reflects modern society, as well.
Send them our way. We like to get folks that have never heard good preaching and good exegesis. It’s nice watching pew sitters develop into leaders over a long term.
As for not doing anything, sometimes they are overwhelmed and just need to be asked.
As for the writer, I agree. People should leave his church.
He needs to read, “So You Don’t Want to Go to Church Anymore.” by Wayne Jacobsen......really gets to the heart of the matter.
Then Wayne’s sequel, “Finding Church.”
Exactly.Somebody discovered the Pareto Principle. It’s on y been around for a hundred years or so.
Multiply that by 5 to 10.
Rather the crybabies rule right now.
Sen. Schumer forgets that President Trump is America’s Cyrus.
Trump is #45 and Cyrus is referred in Isaiah Chapter 45.
“Insanity now rules.”
Congratulations, you said it all in three words.
As a pastor, I would say most churches are worth quitting. Find a bible-believing church where the pastor is not afraid to preach the truth of the bible.
That said, even in good churches people go through cycles of excitement to serve the Lord and valleys that are tough. A church is made up of imperfect individuals growing together and awaiting the return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
With THAT said, I think the author wants people to quit playing church and get involved, which I agree with wholeheartedly.
Thanks for the nerve. In my "church" almost exactly the same is true...it is VERY sad. People have gone with the world. I am considered a radical. Oh, something is going to change alright, but folks are going to be extremely surprised and horrified by the changes that will occur. Wait until a person like one the most rabid critics of Trump becomes President someday (i.e Hillary, Kimmel, Maddow, Morning Joe or Mika, Elijah Cummins, Schumer, etc.). To use the old phrase, "You ain't seen nothin' yet."
Been there for many years and done that.
When the church becomes truly persecuted in the US the way it is in China, North Korea, Yemen, or Iran, 80% of the membership will leave, and the remainder will be the faithful who are the faithful now. May God grant that I do not deny Him on that day.
That's one way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it is that a church is made up of the perfect people who are like me and all those other people who aren't nearly as perfect as me, who should just get out ;-).
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