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Churches play a vital role in the spiritual growth and community of believers, but sometimes, certain traditions or practices may do more harm than good. Whether it’s an overemphasis on entertainment, rigid traditions that hinder inclusivity, or a focus on building projects over discipleship, there are aspects of church life that could be reconsidered for the sake of the Gospel.
What do you think? Are there activities or attitudes in modern churches that should be re-evaluated or stopped altogether? Share your thoughts on what might be holding churches back from being more effective in their mission.
For insights on church activities that may need to go, check out this article:
Churches play a vital role in the spiritual growth and community of believers, but sometimes, certain traditions or practices may do more harm than good. Whether it’s an overemphasis on entertainment, rigid traditions that hinder inclusivity, or a focus on building projects over discipleship, there are aspects of church life that could be reconsidered for the sake of the Gospel.
What do you think? Are there activities or attitudes in modern churches that should be re-evaluated or stopped altogether? Share your thoughts on what might be holding churches back from being more effective in their mission.
For insights on church activities that may need to go, check out this article:
Stop building mini cities complete with gyms and broadway style productions. Feed the poor. Clothe the homeless. Servant life over whatever this horror story personality cult production we have in play.
Churches need to get out into the community and feed and clothe the poor. As our country continues to be in crisis, we need to be out there doing the things that our gov’t is not doing and things that we should have been doing for a long time. All of the money that is being spent on grand buldings and things that don’t matter in eternity, should be used to serve others in our communities that are poor. We also need to get off of the Psychology band wagon and preach the gospel. We have become so good at entertaining that we forget the gospel and we do not tell people what sin is and that it is detrimental to our lives. We preach feel good fluffy Christianity and not the Bible.
So often, a church turns into a family business. No lessons learned from the Hophni and Phinehas experiment and their father the high priest Eli-- but then the priesthood was always a family business, from the time of Moses, his brother Aaron, sister Miriam – and all the Levites to follow.
But even successful churches fall to ruin, when pastors think it’s incumbent upon them to appoint their sons, daughters, wives to church positions including making them heir apparent when they step away from the pulpit to remain on staff as Administrators, Advisors, Executive Pastors, etc.
Churches are treated, and often actually operate as franchises. Some might call them satelite campuses, or spin-offs, or break-away groups-- but they operate under certain umbrellas from ‘parent-church’ organizations that feed and support these alternatives when the parking lots get too full.
In Southern California-- there’s no better example of this than the whole Calvary Chapel movement.
I don’t attend church often, but my biggest pet peeve is some congregations who encourage those who they know can’t catch a tune to save they life but blindly encourage them to be on stage and sing their heart out but sound like the rough edge of grit sandpaper. Some of them even tell these individuals, to keep going with their gift from God. No shade. That needs to be stopped. Although, it’s just my opinion.
Churches isolate to a fault. They create for themselves an alternative to the real world and hide from reality.
Undertrained ministers
Churches that have undertrained ministers, trained from within. Instead of having legit ministers who took University courses in soul care, Hebrew/Greek/Latin, Indepth Bible examination and theological examination from the various streams of the Christian Faith to understand the various views, these churches run their own versions of that .
i attended a Bible class in one such church who ran their own school in a building next door to the church. They had a dormitory for the boys. My Theologian professor was shocked at the ignorance when I told him what I had learned. And I went to a conservative school. The teaching had been borderline cult like and I stopped going.
