Are we really Christians?
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| - 81% of Christians don’t know what the Great Commission is. |
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| - 50% of Christians do not know the content of John 3:16. |
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| - Less than 10% of Christians pray for the salvation of another person |
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| - 67% of churches offer no training in evangelism. |
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;"Christians
are now cherry picking their beliefs from all
sorts of conflicting
sources and putting them together in a
customized blend that makes us
feel good and then calling it
Christianity. In fact, most individuals
who claim to trust in
Jesus Christ do not have a biblical worldview.
They don’t
think like Christians and they don’t act like Christians.
They don’t even have the basics of the faith nailed down."
| Do we really Rely and Count on the Holy Spirit? |
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"If
the Holy Spirit didn’t turn up to church, this Sunday Morning,
would
many churches realize it? Sadly many wouldn’t, and some would go on
for
weeks without realizing it, except that they might notice that there
are no
warm fuzzies. The reason for this is that, most of the church
has
become man led and man controlled. Even though we say that we are
committed to the leading of the Holy Spirit, in actual practice we
depend on ourselves."
The
world has seen many reformations in it’s history, but none like
the one
that God is about to bring upon the church, it will turn the
church
upside down. Many, Christians today, believe that God is getting
ready
for a mighty move of His Spirit and are waiting with much anticipation.
Many of these people, however, haven’t realized that a new wineskin
must
be formed first, then God will pour out the new wine (Lk.
5:37-39).
Our desire is for God to first pour out His Spirit, then we
will make
a new wineskin to fit it, but Jesus says, "no one puts new
wine into old
wineskins", and that includes His Father.
Isn’t
reformation too strong a word though, don’t we just need another
revival?
Well, the word revival, means "to restore life to that which
is dead",
is that all we need, to restore life to the church the way it
is?
may comment dun about sa mga ibang churches ngayon,
ganito ang sabi…
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I
always tried to stuff down my thoughts about church growth.
Our church
(and others of course) seem to just want to grow big,
but I could never
really see the point of growing big for the
sake of just getting
bigger.
I always felt my thoughts seemed rebellious; and of course,
not
many really understand because it seems so "good" to have
lots of
people coming to your church. But we really must
stop judging by
appearances!!! Just because there are lots of
people coming, that
doesn’t mean that the church or pastors
are any more "on track" with
God, than those that have very
few coming, God knows the hearts.
Ewan basta nabasa ko lang to sa site na ito….
medyo pumukaw sa atensyon ko eh.. totoo yung mga sinasabi eh…
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October 22nd, 2006 at 5:06 pm
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