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"No
Steeple, Just People"
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Whose
Idea Was It?
You're probably going to hear the
same message here over and over again. That's because the Gospel is
very simple. WE were the ones that made it complicated - not Jesus!
There are only two choices in the
universe - Good and Evil. If you believe in the Bible, then
Jesus wears the white hat and Satan wears the black hat. That's
it, there's no third choice. The nature of Good is that it has
to be ALL good. That is, it has to be pure. If there is even a
little Evil in the Good, then it's corrupt and stops being Good.
Evil doesn't have that constraint. You see Evil can mix a
little good in with itself (and often does) to built credibility or
suck people in. You only have to have a little Evil to spoil
the whole thing.
So, you see, it's all very
simple. You just step back and ask, "Whose idea was that?"
Here's a little game to try.
Whose
Idea Was It?
The
rules are simple and this is good practice. Just print it off and
draw a line from each item to the one you think was most
responsible! See? Very simple. And fun for the whole family!
(Printable
version here)
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Sexual abuse of
kids by clergy
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33,000 denominations
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"Get Rich
Quick" Gospel
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Clergy with
multi-million dollar homes
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Churches deeply in debt
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Church leaders
having affairs
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Completely
ignoring preaching on the consequences of sin
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Church splits over
personality differences or secondary theological issues
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Measure and rank
churches (and pastors) by attendance, baptism or income numbers
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Christians
demographically indistinguishable from the non-Christians.
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91% of all
Christian outreach/evangelism does not target non-Christians but
targets other Christians
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Despite
Christ’s command to evangelize, 67% of all humans from AD 30 to
the present day have never even heard of his name.
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90% of all
Christian materials printed in English, but just 8% of the
world speaks English.
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More Christians
have been martyred in the last 100 years than all others years since
AD 30 combined
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Evangelical
churches with chandeliers worth hundreds of thousands of dollars
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Most churches
spend 95% of their money on themselves. Just 0.01% reaches the most unreached.
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Christians in the
USA average 2% giving to the church and 50% spending on discretionary
products for their own comforts.
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Four Christians
churches on the four corners of one intersection unwilling to talk to
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Jesus
Prince of Peace, Savior,
Redeemer, Son of God
Most common characteristics:
love, joy, peace, patience,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control, sacrifice.
Word to Live By:
"Love Your Neighbor As Yourself." |
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Satan
Prince of Darkness, Destroyer,
Deceiver, Snake
Most common characteristics:
immorality, impurity,
sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, outbursts of
anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness,
carousing, boasting, and things like these.
Word to Live By:
"Does that guy REALLY
think he's better than you?" |
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