Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Seeing 20/20

In ref. to Burts Blog and the vision for our Church by the year 2020

I see it like this: A church can bicker and squabble about the color of the carpet or the stain-glass in the sanctuary and make a total idiot of itself in front of the world. there is little in the Bible about carpet color and people use these insignificant matters to get their religious kicks all too often. lets face it, its difficult to settle matters like carpet color and chairs vs pews with a direct line of scripture; but this, THIS is in scripture explicitly. the great commission and virtually all of Acts being just a few ex. Maybe not this exact strategy but the principal of ministering to local flocks and splintering out to start new cells. in the new testament persecution was a primary driver for the spread of the gospel. but persecution was also like a fire that purified the church from the lukewarm layabouts that may be analogous to our modern day dissenters. should we wait for persecution to spread this gospel???

2 comments:

Scott H said...

Well said. Welcome to Blogger-ville.

4theluv said...

It is tough for churches to realize that the two things we have in common are our love for Christ and our love for His people. I have seen churches fight over things that do not matter, and fail to fight over the things that do, mainly because many people do not know the difference. We can be greatful we have a church that is not content with being good,or big, (things that don't matter) but rather with being obedient.

Welcome to blogging. Look forward to reading your blogs.