Featured Battling Cultural Christianity

Invite them into your home if possible. After some small talk introduce spiritual things, looking for a biblical response.
If you know of examples of such things have them ready to use as an illustration, quotes from a sermon, or study book.
Listen carefully to them as a doctor in the ER checks for a pulse.

 

I ask them how God is working in their lives and wait for an answer.

 

I throw tracts into the garbage

 

Have you ever read or heard George Whitefield’s sermon, “ Method of Grace?”

 

While you are doing these things - be yourself.

The fruit of the Spirit along with His wisdom and discernment in your life will be a personal witness to those to whom you are sent.

 

This whole topic presupposes you would doing what you need to do in your own life first I think Hank was just alluding to that. We have to be have our thoughts and and everything in order to be able to be sensitive to where the conversation conversation needs to go to edify the other person to to have them move forward. This would also be if the person is a actual Christian or non-Christian you can't you can spend or waste time teaching a goat to try act like a Christian rather than have the goat repent and trust the Lord and be a Christian

 

Don't forget some may indeed be saved.

Churchianity does not guarantee a lost estate.

 

2 Timothy 2
24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

 

People express their Christianity differently, many have internalized their beliefs and given up on church. I understand that. So you will find many going it alone. What will you do for those people?

 

I disagree with you... it is not the person that has grown cold... it is the church, the assembly that has gone cold. There is no love in it anymore. Now people will believe in love... they will believe in life given and received.

Of course you have read John 20:27
These assemblies today are afraid to touch the flesh of God, even the flesh of one another and understand what God is calling us into. Therefore why assemble? Are you answering the deep deep questions that consern people? Really, no you are not. It is the spirit inside that is answering those questions. You the church follow it up with touching the flesh and putting it together. The world is not asking for weak church services, tired ideas and theologies but it will believe love, and life given and received... so go out there and touch the flesh, you might be supprised what you find.

 

Whatever/however the LORD leads, that is hopefully what I will do.

In the meantime the LORD Himself will have to wake up His sleeping church.

 

I’m hoping for smaller more community churches where people help one another, show consern for their neighbor.

 

YESSIR

 

At our local church we try. We have social events in which the neighborhood is invited.

Yes, The LORD has saved some using these efforts. Needless to say there is/was culture shock for them and a little for us.

We have a young and aggressive pastor (a millennial) who has almost doubled our local church attendance.
I love to hear him preach. He is sound in the faith and has a missionary attitude for the local community.

He knows enough to slowly remove the relics of the past generations - they were good for us but now we need to move over in the pew to make room for this present generation.