The nation’s largest Protestant denomination intends to utilize a church planting day to raise awareness among congregants on the need to plant churches in light of declining numbers in the United States.
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SBC Urges Members to Combat U.S. Church Decline
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Jennifer Riley
Christian Post Reporter
Thu, Mar. 27 2008 08:34 AM EDT
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this is partly due to a few missionaries who work in the office rather than going out to do the work . The Simgapore office of the Pacrim IMB missionaries has many who work from 8 to 5 inside the building . Pray that they willing to go out and do thier missionaries duty . That is to meet the native and share the good news .
Amen for the post by 'Stop-the-Madness'. I find many churches I've visited recently have a purpose driven and emergent feel, I get so turned off by that. One church we visited, we had the unfortunate luck of attending during a vision seeking service, where the pastor rambled on and on about vision and strategy. Gee, no wonder why people get turned off by that. Yawn. Sure, all the administration is important, but only to administrators, not your everyday attendee.
Preach Christ, let the pieces fall where they may. Once people have the heart of Christ, aligning your priorities with God's priorities is simple.
But I can't count the number of times I've heard people speaking about techniques to growing, or ways to deal with change, or doing this to or doing that. In the past 4 years of going to 4-5 different churches, I rarely hear the gospel anymore.
Is 1Tim2 unbiblical? This is the position the SBC voted to reinstate in 2000.
Perhaps political liberalism is unbiblical. Political conservatism is much better aligned with God's will; though party affiliation is a mistake as both parties are way to socialistic. Humanism has greatly syncretized our various denominations.
Purge the world out of the church, teach scripture and disciple the Christian Worldview with love and fellowship and allow God to grow His church.
New buildings and emergent methods are the ways of the world.
Here’s an idea for the SBC…
Purge yourself of your purpose-driven church growth methodologies and your emergent leanings, return to proclaiming the Biblical gospel and let the Lord grow His church.
Maybe we should start by combating family decline?
Gasoline!
http://poleblog.polemos.net/2007/01/gasoline_04.html
"to encourage SBC congregations and members to “recognize their communities as mission fields” and to allow God to use them to start new churches"
I think I'm missing something here. This is already the number one mission of any Christian.
Man focuses on the number of buildings. God focuses on the number of souls.
Where did we go wrong?
Incredible!
“We have a growing evangelistic deficit in America that will best be answered by starting new churches.”
So in other words - instead of people in existing churches BEING the church, let's start new churches. Let's invest and pour a bunch of resources into new buildings, etc, when there are thousands of buildings standing vacant as is.
How about going in and restoring what's there versus "let's just start a new church"? I'll tell you why. Because it's hard work!
Still incredible!
Hal
www.halmoran.com
I am not shocked that SBC is seeing the decline of Christianity.
Let's face it, Christianity is facing a image problem of being a religion of political conservatives, therefore people like myself who is a liberal don't see why we have to belong to such an organization.
The SBC and other groups need to preach the gospel and stop putting unbiblical chains on people. Women don't have a chance in the SBC. If they do not get that and other tertiary issues dealt with the younger crowd will not be there. Same for other denominations. Biblical Christians do not want to align with churches that debate issues that are clearly stated in the Bible as sin. The UMC, PCUSA, TEC and others are either debating the ordination of unrepentant sinners. Two of the groups listed have top leaders that say that Jesus is one of many ways to God. Who wants to be a part of that mess? Church planting for these groups is a farce. There is a reason why churches are closing. They are not preaching the gospel of the kingdom in power.