Posted on 06/03/2009 7:26:03 PM PDT by fgoodwin
Absolutely! Christ is our cause, our only cause and all else should be a distant second.
If you want to feed the poor, do it to glorify Christ. If you want to house the needy do it to glorify Christ.
Spare us anecdotal sermons about your home life and being a person. Tell us about Christ using the word of God...
American Catholic Church supports La Raza, ACORN and Notre Dame abortionists. The Pope needs to fire a lot of people.
not my methodist church.
“Many Protestant Churches have policies of minding the personal business of church members, couple counseling, individual counseling with ‘on staff’ counselors. Men like me do not want - nor will be tolerate a church getting involved in my personal or family business...”
I disagree that this is bad, no doubt the main focus is teaching from Gods word of Christ but even Christian families have a need from time to time for intervention from elders, piers, or other wise people. So long as the core mission is not counseling having the service itself is invaluable.
Same goes for other community building, Churches should not be a place that you go to on Sunday, maybe for one bible study. The Church should be at the center of your social life, community structure, and support mechanism..
PREACH THE GOSPEL, LIVE THE GOSPEL. PEOPLE WILL FLOCK TO YOUR DOORS.
AMEN.
They’re deceived. The evil one has already seen to that.
My conclusion is that each misses the mark. The mainline churches are dying because they have swapped Jesus Christ for Marx and Rawls and similar degenerates.
The megachurches have swapped the Christian gospel for feel-good socializing and whatever sells.
Jesus Christ said it and Bonhoeffer reiterated, that the number of true Christians in the world would always be a small minority, and they could expect to be persecuted. Not much of a PR "brand" campaign is it?
But it's the truth. And this fetish with church growth and numbers reflects a typically American boomer mentality--- great for creating prosperity, for nurturing faith, not so great.
We may HAVE to go back, if things keep going the way they are. People won’t be able to keep their big institutions going.
Hey, that might work...
I joined a Methodist Church last year. I helped start a theater group there, and we put on a Christian play at Christmas that was very successful and involved the community. We packed the house for all performances after doing months of rehearsal and involving actors from kindergarteners to older adults.
A few of the liberals in the church (who cared nothing about doing theater there before) decided we had to do more issue-oriented plays. One of the woman in the church transcribed a politically correct children’s book word-for-word and called it a play. I pointed out, for starters, that wasn’t going to work on stage. Another woman said we had to do this play because it was about “tolerance.”
I said that “tolerance” was a meaningless concept. The important question was “tolerate what?” After all, we don’t want our kids tolerating genocide. I was told to shut up.
I thought the whole experience was a microcosm of why the Methodist Church is failing. We had created a meaningful religious theater group. It got trampled to death by the self-worship of liberalism.
Churches that are preaching the Word of God, in depth, are growing. Churches that are trying to be politically correct are dying. Go figure!
We go to a Calvary Chapel here in Nevada and our attendance is skyrocketing.
People are flocking to our Catholic Church.
We just had to install sound and a screen in an adjoining room for overflow crowds. Maybe time to build a new Church or get an assistant and offer more Masses. Our priest is already doing four Masses every weekend.
**Barna’s polling also found that young Americans share an increasingly global outlook **
Go ANYWHERE in the world and attend a Catholic Mass. If it’s in Latin the words are the same. If it is a native language, English speakers can still attend.
**Catholic Church endorse Sanctuary for Illegal Aliens **
Source please.
Agree with you all the way. Exactly what our priest does.
Since 1990 our little Southern Baptist church has grown from about 150 on Sundays to 2200 last Easter. On Wednesdays, we have about 200 teenagers show up to hang out at church and receive a Christian message. We have more children under 4 years old than many churches have adults.
Also, the United Methodist Church has gone liberal and embraced homosexual marriage, does not condemn out of wedlock births, and glosses over the gospel in favor of feel good theology. It has become a club and not a church where God and his son are worshiped.
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