Tuesday, January 27, 2009
What Changes???
Every few days I am asked what changes do you propose?? Let us take a little survey. Is your building 50% or less full on Sunday morning? Is the majority of your attendance 55 years or more???? Has the last 20 or so additions been by Baptism??? Is the people you preach to really learning anything??? Does any one really care???? Brethren I will not try to answer these questions for you nor will I even venture to guess. you answer them for your self. Then ask your self, are We doing what our Lord wants us to do? God gave us a job to do. see Acts 1:7 We are to begin where we are and spread out from there. Each Church is responsible for what they do. Each Pastor is responcible for what he leads them to do. Do not ever fall into the trap of blameing the large Church down the street. do all you can in accordance with Gods Word. THINK, STUDY, PRAY.PRAY.PRAY. Then Go, Go, Go, That is what God told us to do. Marlin Freeman
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I am still trying to grasp your point, Brother Freeman. You repeatedly post about "change" but then will not/do not/cannot give any examples of what you mean. How can we answer your question(s) if we do not understand your point? How do the questions you pose in this blog relate to the "changes" you keep mentioning? Are you saying that if our building is not at least half-full, we must change because we are not doing the job God has given us? Or that if our attendance is greater than 55 we are doing what the Lord expects of us? I'm trying to reconcile your questions with the mysterious "changes" of which you speak. Please, please, please help me understand your point(s), so that we can answer your questions.
ReplyDeleteBro. Bill I am trying to get people to think. If your building is is only 50% full you have room for growth. The question about 55 is the AGE of attendees. If your gruwth is mostly by transfer that is equil to no growth in the Kingdom of God, The Idea is to devise ways of reaching lost people in every area of sociaty. The Churches that are growing are winning people to the Lord. That is what it is all about. What is so hard to understand about that. We must stop whineing and get out and meet people where they are. Marlin Freeman P.S. I am not knocking older people I am one, but the younger people is by far the largest groupe in sociaty now. They have the energy to do much more, and the funds to pay their own way. M.F.
ReplyDeleteBrother Marlin, I think Brother Bill is asking what changes you suggest. He wonders if you refer to changes in music, changes in speech, changes in Bible versions, changes in our behavior at church, changes in our idea of worship, changes in how we witness.
ReplyDeleteHe wants to know what specific changes you refer to, like adding a band to service. In other words, I think he wonders not whether we need to devise ways of reaching lost people in every area of society, but rather he wants to know what specific ways you might know if which can help us accomplish that goal.
what specific ways you might know of* which can help us accomplish that goal.
ReplyDeleteI am concerned by the repeated use of the term "devising ways". Is preaching no longer effective?
ReplyDeleteBrother Mike, the discussion isn't whether or not we preach, it is how we preach. The method we preach. Do we use KJV language while witnessing or not? While preaching or not? While praying or not? While singing or not?
ReplyDeleteDo we use only hymns, only contemporary, or a mixture?
Do we run a van to pick up children or not? Do we use AWANA, Discovery, or make a new literature?
None of these take away from or add to preaching. They only affect the method by which we already do things. Even with change, we are still preaching the same message and with our mouths.
Why. Bro. James did you feel the need to caps. awana and not discovery?
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