Sunday, November 12, 2006

Megachurch issues part 1

I am still reading articles about the impact of Ted Haggard's admission of sexual immorality, and had to make a few comments about it. So, rather than make this one long post, I will address it in segments. In this segment, I want to address the issue of the members. Yahoo! has an article out right now that asks what happens to the members of the fellowship once a pastor falls from grace? Well, if the members are following man rather than God, they will leave. My concern is whether the members of any congregation understand that they do not go to church, they are the church. Unfortunately, we have divided ourselves into so many different groups that we have forgotten that there is only one church, and Christ Jesus is the head of that church. Since Jesus built the church, God can set us as members wherever He feels that we will be best fitted. Yet so many of us decide that we will attend a fellowship because we like the music, the pastor, or any other reason besides submitting to God and being set in a fellowship that He feels is best for us. This is why the true church struggles. We have thousands of people attending megachurches that do not even belong there, so God's will cannot be accomplished because people are not in their right place. We must understand that as one body, we have created this situation. How do we begin to correct it? Go to the Lord, and find out where He desires for us to be set, and begin carrying out our assignment at that fellowship.

1 comment:

jel said...

I have a lot of Q?'s on this, I have read over this a few time,
You know I'm not very good at this discussing thing,
but, here goes, when you write,(we have divided ourselves into many different groups) are you talking about denomination?

this is one thing I don't understand, if we are one in Christ, why so many different ones?


To Me it is just plain sad to see the way church's are behaving these day's , and we wonder why aren't as many people being saved these days