I Do Not Want That Church

Good Morning, 

I do not want a ministry without blessings, without hard work, or without a heart broken for the lost. The church without a broken heart for the unsaved will soon not be at church at all. The church that will not work for the Master will find itself without the Master.

I cannot imagine a church without young people being trained to serve the Lord, or a baptistry that is not used regularly. How can we call ourselves a church if the very identifying character traits of the New Testament church are not present among us?

The New Testament church “preached everywhere, the Lord working with them.” (Mark 16:20)  The plans for our big day to bring church to the community is as normal an event as you could find in the New Testament. We are adding groceries as Thanksgiving gifts, but the membership going to the community and preaching the Gospel was a daily occurrence in the New Testament.

Acts 5:42 “And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.”

Acts 20:31 “Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.”

Do not allow yourselves to be content with the church that sings conservative hymns, has a choir instead of a rock band, and carries a King James Bible. Those elements, without the work of the ministry become a façade behind which lazy, heartless, and disobedient Christians hide.

Pastor