If the bulk of the people in your pews are non-Christians, you have a evangelism meeting, not a church.
If the goal of the typical sermon (if it is called that) is about converting people, rather than growing converts, then you have an evangelistic meeting, not a church.
And if one cannot discuss what the Bible says about repenting, judgment, sin in our lives, doing good works, etc, for fear of offending non-believers, then you arguably don’t even have an evangelistic meeting. Just a country club for religious-minded people.
“It is all for our benefit, but is not all about us.”
The idea that the Jews need to repent because they had the Law, and Gentiles do not, would be foreign to the New Testament I’ve read.
“The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe in the good news!”
If that needs to be understood as applying to Jews but not Gentiles as well, then I think there is something wrong with what folks are teaching. That IS the Good News. And the Good News to Gentiles is that we can ALSO repent, believe, and become a part of the Kingdom.
If the bulk of the people in your pews are non-Christians, you have a evangelism meeting, not a church.I've not claimed anything different than what you post - as I've pointed out a couple times. It seems you are not listening.If the goal of the typical sermon (if it is called that) is about converting people, rather than growing converts, then you have an evangelistic meeting, not a church.
And if one cannot discuss what the Bible says about repenting, judgment, sin in our lives, doing good works, etc, for fear of offending non-believers, then you arguably don’t even have an evangelistic meeting. Just a country club for religious-minded people.
The idea that the Jews need to repent because they had the Law, and Gentiles do not, would be foreign to the New Testament I’ve read.
And again, that is not what I said. It seems you are not listening.