A Critical question asked by Church Whisperer, “How is that we have so much fantastic preaching and really smart theologians in the church today but we are actually less Biblically literate than ever?”
Take a few minutes to read this timely article. WOW, what’s your take!
by A Casual Observer
Most contemporary Christians mistakenly view the church building as a necessary part of worship. Therefore, they never question the need to financially support a building and its maintenance.
The church edifice demands a vast infusion of money. In the United States alone, real estate owned by institutional churches today is worth over $230 billion. Church building debt, service, and maintenance consumes about 18 percent of the $50 to $60 billion tithed to churches annually. Point: Contemporary Christians are spending astronomical amounts of money on their buildings.
All the traditional reasons put forth for “needing” a church building collapse under careful scrutiny. We so easily forget that the early Christians turned the world upside down without them (see Acts 17:6). They grew rapidly for….. continue reading
A horse speaks horse. We speak human. Because we’re speaking a different language, we need someone to translate!
Isn’t that what Jesus did for us? He came to translate the Father’s love in a way we could comprehend it.
Warning: The content of this video might have adverse effects on your tear glands.
This one should rattle you to your core it did me!
This is an interesting read from the New York Times…
Suppose you’re preparing to travel by air. Which of these precautions do you think is most likely to prevent your plane from crashing?
A) Sacrificing a gilt-horned bull on an altar.
B) Sacrificing two goats on the tarmac.
C) Buying flight insurance.
I’m guessing you didn’t go for the bull sacrifice. Although this preboarding procedure was practiced by ancient Greek travelers, as Homer reported in grisly detail, today there are serious doubts about its efficacy, if only because of the litany of tourist woes in “The Odyssey.”
The goat option was tested at Katmandu Airport in September to propitiate Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god. Officials of Nepal Airlines told Reuters that they had sacrificed two goats in front of a Boeing 757 whose mechanical problems had forced the airline to suspend some flights.
“The snag in the plane has now been fixed, and the aircraft has resumed its flights,” one airline official reported triumphantly. Nevertheless, it is probably premature to put much faith in a single experiment that so far, to my knowledge, has not been replicated.
We do, though, have abundant data regarding option C. Last year, tens of millions of people bought life insurance for scheduled flights of airlines in the United States. Not one of those insured passengers died in a crash — and this was not just a coincidence, at least not to many of the people who bought the insurance.
No, at some level they believed that their insurance helped keep the plane aloft, according to…. Click here for complete story
It’s the final paragraph that gets me “So when we think about passing up flight insurance, we conjure up disaster just as easily as ancient Greeks imagined a thunderbolt from Olympus, and we too figure we can avert it through the equivalent of a bull sacrifice. Intuitively, we haven’t made great strides since Homer’s day. But at least our gods take credit cards.”
I was standing today in the dark toolshed. The sun was shining outside and through the crack at the top of the door there came a sunbeam. From where I stood that beam of light, with specks of dust floating in it, was the most striking thing in the place. Everything else was almost pitch-black. I was seeing the beam, not seeing things by it. Then I moved so that the beam fell on my eyes. Instantly the whole previous picture vanished. I saw no toolshed, and (above all) no beam. Instead I saw, framed in the irregular cranny at the top of the door, green leaves moving on the branches of a tree outside and beyond, 90 odd million miles away, the sun. Looking along the beam, and looking at the beam are very different experiences.
-C. S. Lewis
The million-dollar question, well maybe more like the $12.37 question. I’ve been bombarded with this question, why are your posts less frequent? Please be patient is all I can say. You will all understand come Sunday the 22nd. I’ve been challenged, tested and luckily I have held tightly to the cross with Christ and He has carried me through some very dark hours.
So please continue to pray for me, the Church, our fellowship and the life challenging message that I will be sharing with all of you on the 22nd.
He is Lord! Here is the one clue I will share with all of you. Genesis 50:20. So look it up and reflect.
Thank you and God bless
An alarming quote to consider…
It Is easier to kill an organization that it is to change it!
Tom Peters
The Circle of Innovation
We live in a world that is rapidly accelerating while the church declines. Look at the declining numbers, change is necessary. Don’t cling to rituals, cling to Christ.
Religion is the cause for world wars and Christianity is the cause for reflection on ones self, with a result of internal battles. What? Religion is something a group of people choose to agree upon and basically follow self inflicted traditions and practices and Christianity is a personal, more specifically individual reflection of ones self. To be a Christian you must look at your dark side and deepest corners of your inner person. Realizing that you are a sinner worthy of only death! Unknown
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