A Warning From a Baptist Church

I ran across this web site and one can feel the hurt and pain from someone who has seen his church disintegrate. I thought it might be of interest for others.

The fault goes to a mistaken understanding of Acts of the Apostles 14:23

timf said:

I ran across this web site and one can feel the hurt and pain from someone who has seen his church disintegrate. I thought it might be of interest for others.

A Warning to Baptist Churches, Learn From Our Failure

Dear fellow Baptist, There is so much we need to tell you but so little time. Whatever has brought your here it is our hope that you will have your eyes opened. There are so many new programs that are destroying good churches nation-wide and they could be working their way through your own...

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It seems the person writing the blog (or whatever it is) has yet to learn the real reasons churches die. It ain't a denominational distinctive thing. Not hardly. Why chase after all the programs, approaches, attractions and structures in the first place? It's to make up for the absence of what God intends should draw people into any Bible-believing, evangelical church.

Tenchi said:

It seems the person writing the blog (or whatever it is) has yet to learn the real reasons churches die. It ain't a denominational distinctive thing. Not hardly. Why chase after all the programs, approaches, attractions and structures in the first place? It's to make up for the absence of what God intends should draw people into any Bible-believing, evangelical church.

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Having read the blog I think that is what he/she is saying. The church has to get back to or better yet never loose the real reason we are here. To spread the gospel message and to grow up strong bible believing Christians.

I have been in churches that have gone down the road of trying to be the latest thing. It is a sad thing to see the pastoral staff change from shepherds of a flock to managers of a business.