Is it a business?
Is your church BIG business or is it (are you) really concerned about reaching lost people and making disciples out of them?
Before you answer the question, what do you hear most from the pulpit. Are you hearing that the main thing is making disciples? Are you being told that you are called by God to make disciples yourself? Are you being held accountable to make disciples yourself (personally). It is unfortunate that in many churches we are asked to invite people to church when we should be inviting them to Jesus.
Be careful how you answer the question. Will anyone even bother to answer the question? We'll see.
posted by Bob Carder @ 5:02 PM
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I believe it is a business, but, they are only doing what the Bible says they will do. Any church is a kingdom, and the pastor acts as the local king.
This is the way Samuel says they will operate: So Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who asked of him a king. And he said, These will be the ways of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots. He will appoint them for himself to be commanders over thousands and over fifties, and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest and to make his implements of war and equipment for his chariots. He will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers. He will take your fields, your vineyards, and your olive orchards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants. He will take your men and women servants and the best of your cattle and your donkeys and put them to his work. He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves shall be his slaves. In that day you will cry out because of your king you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord will not hear you then. (1Sa 8:10-18)
Is it really a business and are they (we) really doing what the Bible says they must do?
Try reading the Scriptures in the light that all of the Word has a redemptive purpose. Go and multiply was the theme and it culminated with Jesus giving the Great Commission. Are we fulfilling the Great Commission mandate?
Any church family is the Body of Christ and if the pastor acts like the local king - then the mission of Christ is in deep trouble.
Perhaps the problem lies in your first statement and if that is how the church is operating perhaps that is why (in part) she is failing in her mission.
In the Old Testament there were kings and priests and they held separate offices. The kings provided the resources for the ministry of the priests and the priests did the ministry functions.
If the Kings didn't do their job there were no resources for the priestly office to do theirs. This was very important in that time period. Today we have a resurrected King who has given us a mission that far exceeds the demands of Samuel for our lives.
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