Featured Does being too rigid impact the gospel?

First of all, always be careful about talking down about any evangelical church!

 

So is your wife attending the new church with you?

 

I have good reasons why I left a church a couple of years ago - yet I NEVER speak negative about that church- to most people. And the only ones I do mention it to, are those I am close with and then only for a valid reason.

 

"Too rigid" often translates to unloving. Unloving can definitely impact how the gospel message is communicated.

 

But then again - it also determined by how it is received.
If a church /pastor preaches on Hell - some will see that as unloving.

 

Sometimes it is

 

Too "anything" can impact the efforts to spread the gospel: too rigid, too loose, too formal, too informal, too much legalism, too much licentiousness, too much emphasis on evangelism and not enough on discipleship and vice versa, too much emphasis on the basics and not enough on the meat of the Word, too much generalization and not enough specificity, too much specificity and not enough general and foundational basics.

Churches - all churches - can engorge themselves on too much of anything.

The problem is that we all are in different places and different walks. Sometimes we have to leave a church that is swelling itself with "too much" of one thing at the expense of all the rest that the church is called to do.

Unless another church is in sin and open violation of the Word - such as teaching a works based doctrine or ordaining a homosexual as a deacon - I just cannot very easily judge if that church is into "too much" of something.