We Will Stand...
We will stand before God...
*Regarding the stewardship of His resources.
*Regarding why we invite people to church instead of to Jesus.
*Regarding why we disciple new believers to become good church members instead of great disciple multipliers.
*Regarding why we cater to the already reached through our "church" ministries at the expense of the unreached.
*Regarding why we attract people to our church so that we can have bigger buildings, more butts in pews, more programs and more funds to pay for it all.
*Regarding why we teach people that coming to our church is the most important thing.
*Regarding why we insist that our members must serve in our own church ministries regardless of passions and gifting.
*Regarding why we control what ministries we will have and what ministries we will allow our members to serve in on the outside.
*Regarding how we fill up schedules for things at church so much so that our members have no time to serve in the world.
*Regarding why we don't care if people are going to hell. We think, well it is their responsibility to come to us if they want Jesus.
*Regarding why we as a church corporately take disciple making out of the hands of every believer.
*Regarding why we allow professing believers to slack on identifying their passion, living out of their spiritual gifting, failure to live out the spiritual disciplines, and refuse to make disciples.
*Regarding why we measure the wrong things like number in attendance, facilities, staff, stage performance, increasing budgets and offerings and call that success.
*Regarding why success is not defined as disciples making disciples.
*Regarding why we reward, honor those who are faithful in their attendance, giving, serving in the church, and not rocking the boat.
*Regarding why we don't reward and honor those who live the Great Commission by making disciples, getting them baptized quickly, teaching them to obey all things over and over again.
We will all stand before God and give a personal accounting! Pastors like you and me will be held to a higher level of accounting (you can read about that in the Scriptures).
posted by Bob Carder @ 1:30 PM
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3 Comments:
Bob, I totally agree with each and every one of your statements here. I could have composed this list myself....
In the spirit of helping you understand who I am, however, I would add a few more:
Regarding why we so often feel free to judge the success or failure of other Christ-followers according to our experience and context and without full appreciation for the amazing diversity the Holy Spirit both allows and encourages.
Regarding the times when we have chosen to attack, tear down and divide rather that nurture and build up the Body of Christ as one unified family, by words and deeds that lack obvious love and grace and mercy...forgetting that what we do to the least of these, brothers and sisters in Christ, Christ takes as being done to himself.
Regarding the times when we rebuked publically when we did not approach privately first.
We are not so different, you and I.
Ain't that the truth.
I must disagree with Peggy’s third addition based on Paul’s public rebuke of Peter in Galatians 2.
I would like to add one more.
Regarding taking what has been freely given to us by God and turning it into a marketable commodity that we sell in the name of “training” or “testing” as a means by which we produce profit under the guise of ministry.
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