Sunday, April 29, 2007

Today's church

The church's purpose, it mission is not to bring people to Christ, her mission; her purpose is to equip the saints to bring people to Christ. The reason there is so many milk fed Christians in churches today is because the church is failing in her purpose to equip the saints. Today's church tries to hard to make herself relevant to the culture that she has lost her ability to be relevant to the culture. Paul admonished Timothy in the purpose of the church, he instructed him and he instructed in other letters exactly what should take place when the church came together.
I believe that until the church makes herself more assertive in equipping the body of Christ we will continue to have milk fed Christians. Until the church teaches believers how to distinguish the Truth from the false, how to think critically about the culture and what each individual absorbs from the culture, she will continue to lose her relevance in the culture. I come back again to how we answer the questions of creation, fall, redemption, until we can critically evaluate every aspect of life through that lens of the answers to those questions, we as a church will continue to struggle.

2 comments:

Chris said...

My favorite answer: YBH

Yes, But How? That's what many of us struggle with.

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