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God's mandate is for us to move. He is about movement. He tells us to "Go and make disciples." The original word for church in the New Testament, (the Greek word ekklesia) means "the called out ones." God's church is a group of called out ones. The…
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An Educational Institution That Never Graduates Anyone

The only educational institution that I have ever heard of that doesn't graduate anyone is the church. In a church you find someone who has only been a Christian for three weeks and knows nothing about the Bible sitting on the same pew with someone who has been a Christian 40 years and has read through the Bible 30 times. And they are both listening to a unenthusiastic message about "Christianity 101" by a preacher who almost falls asleep in his own sermons. Does that many any sense?

After somebody has been in church a couple of years and has heard the "Christianity 101" message a few times, why doesn't the church graduate him or her and send them out to prayer walk in their community. Why keep them tied to the building and to the apron strings of the preacher?

Our modern church system produces bored Sunday morning Christians who live like average Americans the rest of the week. Where are the bold, courageous Christian men and women that you read about in the Book of Acts and in church history?

Our American church system doesn't seem to produce that kind of Christian. And if God begins to raise up a bold, courageous Christian man or woman, the preacher is usually threatened by him or her and calls him a rebel, tells him to "get under authority", and pulls him back into the fold of mediocrity.

American churches, let God's people go! Let God raise up bold and courageous Christians before it is too late. Surely it is now time for some church members to graduate and go boldly live the Gospel.

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God's Mandate -- Move!

God's mandate is for us to move. He is about movement. He tells us to "Go and make disciples."

The original word for church in the New Testament, (the Greek word ekklesia) means "the called out ones." God's church is a group of called out ones. They are called to move out of their ruts, traditions, and habits and to move forward with God.

The church is not a building. The early Christians met in homes, yet they were still the church.

The church is not an instution or a religious orgnaization.… Continue

Posted on October 2, 2009 at 1:43pm —

 
 
 

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