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To: wtp7
Where do you go to church? Is it a cult?

My question was to your assertion that only "Spirit-led" people go to Osteen's complex.

For you to think that people go to "churches" because they're Spirit-led is ludicrous because most, if not all, go to such complexes because they offer what Wal-Mart offers: everything to meet their perceived needs.

Americans are consumers and they pick their places of "worship" on how their selfish needs are met...just like Wal-Mart attempts to scratch every itch of its customers.

There is nothing wrong with a business catering to its customers, but when a so-called "church" spends millions in creating programs and facilities to entice people to attend, they're no different than the Fortune 500 companies. Therefore, they cease to represent the Church of the New Testament.

Why? Because in the Church of the New Testament, people come together to meet the needs of others, not to have their needs met. And so, in giving they represent the Lord Himself who came to serve and not to be served. However, you don't see that in most "churches" in America. You see nothing but selfishness, where people attend in order to be "fed," burped and pampered. There's no sacrificing on behalf of others; no open opportunity for God's people to express their gifts in building up the Body. No, it's all contrived so that people are lulled into believing that all that's needed to "serve" God is to spare an hour or so each week.

And yet we wonder why the Church has been marginalized and its influenced diluted.

If there's a cult here, it's Osteen's group, as well as many others.

696 posted on 12/21/2005 10:12:03 PM PST by A2J (Love Jesus...hate "church.")
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