Thursday, August 21, 2014

How to shrink your church

Article: How To Shrink Your Church In One Easy Step: Every major American church that has taken steps towards liberalization on sexual issues has seen a steep decline in membership.

More accurately: :How to shrink your denomination..."

I don't usually do "articles" on this site.

The author makes a correlation between declining church attendance and liberalizing sexual morays. Or rather, a correlation between increasing or steady church attendance and keeping to Biblically standard morays.

Correlation, however, does not mean causation.
John 14:21 (NASB)
21 He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him.”
Obeying Jesus's commandments opens us up to Jesus's revelation of Himself to us. It is not the obedience itself that prevents church decay. It is the personal and on-going revelation of Jesus by Himself to us that prevents the decay. But more than that. The personal revelation is what brings church life and therefore church growth.

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