GodThoughtsWired! Thursday, September 22, 2011 |
| Evangelizing the Church in the Age of Delusion |
7 reasons to keep jesus
out of his church
out of his church
PART 3
More reasons why we must continue to keep the Jesus of the Bible out of today's church:
#6. Jesus couldn't even keep a small group of 12 men together, much less build a mega-church! Unfortunately, Jesus didn't have access to the vast amount of church-growth literature and resources that we have now.
While I'm sure that Jesus would have been more successful had He had access to the kind of education I received (I have a Master's in Church Growth), that said, until Jesus learns to be a little bit more "discerning" with some of the things He says, we must keep Him out of His church...He'll only drag it down
Example #1. On more than one occaision Jesus said something along the lines of "Your either with me or against Me." -see Luke 11:23. I think Jesus should sit at the feet of Joel Osteen for a couple years and learn the ways of a good politician.
Example #2. In every gospel Jesus said something along the lines of "take up your cross..." see Matthew 16:24; Luke 9:23; Mark 8:34. Well, we now know He had it backwards. References to the cross bring up all kinds of negative imagery. My goodness - it's an object of TORTURE for Christ sake! Oh, yeah, that's gonna draw alot of people! C'mon! "It's gonna divide the very people we're trying to reach!"
It's no longer "take up your cross," but rather...
TAKE DOWN THE CROSS!
C'mon brothers and sisters...Let's grow a "church!"
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