Hp held hostage

No, the computer saga is not over. I won't use the company name, but let's just say I will never purchase another computer from the "worst buy" store. But I actually have a few minutes in front of another computer, so let me share something with you that we touched on in service last night. In a recent edition of the Metro Voice there is an article concerning a pastor and one of the largest churches in the nation. He and his church literally created a new paradigm of how to grow a church many years ago. It was based on being "seeker friendly". However, a recent research study report from within in his church has discovered that they have failed. Not at church attendance but in producing disciples of Jesus Christ. Here are a few quotes from the pastor "We made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed the line of faith and became Christians, we should have started telling people and teaching people that they have to take responsibility to become self feeders." A separate quote from the author of the article says "The mention of sin, salvation, and sanctification were taboo and replaced by starbucks clones, strategy and sensitivity. One of the saddest aspects of this article to me is that too many pastors are wandering "now what do I do?" Who's program do I follow now? With all do respect, how about seeking God, studying His word and following his voice for your church? Just a thought.

My dad taught me a lesson along time ago; don't divert too far one way or another. Plow a straight line. In the church world we continue to swing the pendilum of how to to do church from one extreme to the other. We went through many years of walling ourselves in the church and making living a Christian life unattainable for almost everyone. That is unless you dressed a certain way and addressed everyone as brother or sister. And out of that we produced generations of religious people who lost touch with God's mission.

Then we completely swung the other way. Now we don't want to preach about sin because it might offend someone. We desperately try to make our services resemble Hollywood so people will feel comfortable. We cut out altar calls because of peoples schedules.

So now we have reaped a harvest of people that rarely

read their bible, (unless we put the words on our screens on Sundays), they don't know how to pray, and then we push them into ministry positions and we wander what they are replicating.

We have no one to blame but ourselves. We have failed people. The church that God builds is the one that stays the course. The church that stays relevant without compromising God's Word. If we don't become enabler's we are becoming the very obstacles to people that Christ warned against.