Are you sure that 'membership' in a local church is a Biblical concept? And, if so, do you preach 'Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse,...' from Malachi 3:10 and consider the storehouse the local church? Or is it acceptable to directly support missions on your own?
just an observation and opinion (retired 17 years now so not so close to the institutions anymore) but I have been saying to anyone who will listen (and there ain't many) that if the preachers/pastors in the pulpit don't say some of that stuff n their sermons about what is happening culturally (and I haven't heard a peep from the pulpits explicitly about the Socialist culture and anti-Christian attitudes in four churches I have visited/worshipped within in the past four years) nothing is going to happen to change the "stupidity" of the American people...and I am convinced that most religious/church attendees are Biblically ignorant for that reason...no one speaks to the problem from the pulpit and therefore the pew -sitter never critically examines it from God's Word...I sometimes feel nauseaous watching/listening to the America I live in and wonder if God has abandoned America and will allow America to suffer the consequences...what I did with children as they were growing up....painful but necessary
Are you sure that 'membership' in a local church is a Biblical concept? And, if so, do you preach 'Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse,...' from Malachi 3:10 and consider the storehouse the local church? Or is it acceptable to directly support missions on your own?
just an observation and opinion (retired 17 years now so not so close to the institutions anymore) but I have been saying to anyone who will listen (and there ain't many) that if the preachers/pastors in the pulpit don't say some of that stuff n their sermons about what is happening culturally (and I haven't heard a peep from the pulpits explicitly about the Socialist culture and anti-Christian attitudes in four churches I have visited/worshipped within in the past four years) nothing is going to happen to change the "stupidity" of the American people...and I am convinced that most religious/church attendees are Biblically ignorant for that reason...no one speaks to the problem from the pulpit and therefore the pew -sitter never critically examines it from God's Word...I sometimes feel nauseaous watching/listening to the America I live in and wonder if God has abandoned America and will allow America to suffer the consequences...what I did with children as they were growing up....painful but necessary
Amen, my brother! "We" must police ourselves/our churches. The world is NOT going to trust us regardless.