June 10th 2017 / THE DILAPIDATED CHRISTIAN CHURCH!

You do not have to be a clown to witness to a circus! The church had the idea that if they dressed like the world, talked like the world, acted like the world and ran a church service like a disco lounge with a live band they would convert the world to Jesus. What actually happened was the world converted the church. We were to be the salt of the earth and beckon on a hill, instead, we are just a bottle of mixed spices and you cannot even taste the salt in the bottle and instead of a beckon upon a hill we are nothing more than a three-way light bulb. Christians and the Christian church were to be in the world but not of the world but we are failing in a spectacular fashion. We are as exciting to the world as a soda pop with no fizz left in it and it is lukewarm! Now is the time we stop being ashamed of being set apart from the world and get back to being what Jesus asked us to be and do what Jesus asked us to do... share the gospel with others, dress with respect to God and ourselves, get back to chapels and altars instead of auditoriums for a fake rock concert and a glorified Bible Study/ talk show called a worship service and a preacher dressed more shabby than a hobo with his or her mouth full of buzz words like radical and awesome! Get back to weekly Holy Communion as they did in the beginning Christian church, Time for the Christians and the Christian church to grow a spine and if the world does not want to join then it will be their loss.

Matthew 5:13-16New King James Version (NKJV)

13 “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.

14 “You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

Prayer: O'Lord, let the church repent and come back to what it was meant to be, in Jesus name, amen.

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