Post by VR on Jun 18, 2016 7:39:41 GMT
All round the UK the church is cloning itself in Social Action. Have we have simply become a boring caricature of self-help schemes?
When I speak to Churches about outreach, about local mission, their one and all response is, "We do Christians Against Poverty, Redeeming our communities, Prayer for the Police, we help immigrants/migrants to legally stay in the country, we organize food banks, we deploy street Pastors, and we have a great Mums and Tot's group, even a paying nursery scheme."
This answer shows me that 'the dregs' of society are being helped, and good grief Charlie brown, the amount of dregs is increasing daily. ONE of the problems I personally have will all this 'free help' is that I am paying taxes, local and national, for the Govt to fix this. Where are my taxes going? Why should I pay a dog to bark and then howl at the moon myself?
Local churches are engaging in these social action, they will say, to 'incarnate the Gospel' in love and good works, to earn the right the preach the Gospel. HOGWASH! We need to question these terms we so easily genuflect before as the convoluted religious rubbish they are. Christ is the only incarnation of the Gospel and He died to pay for men's sins. We have a COMMAND from Him to preach the Gospel, we do not need to earn any right to gain a hearing. I wonder if two of the main reasons we are engaging in such social action is 1) To make people like us. To present ourselves as no threat to them whatsoever, that we might live out our little lives in peace. 2) We are being led by 'women,' whose tendency is to mostly care. (Note..you can still be male and act like a woman.)
My answer the the first is that Jesus said the World would hate us. Why? Because of our message of sin, righteousness and judgement to come, enshrined in the need to repent and believe. We should not court the liking of the lost. It is death to the Gospel.
My answer to the second is that men, real men, masculine men, will NOT be led by mothers or sisters. Look now, men follow men and I tell what Charlie Brown, our churches are almost empty of these kinds of men.
Let the Deacons become what they should be, that is, the carers of the saints and the church. Let the elders be what they should be, men dedicated to the ministry of the word and prayer. Send out the evangelists! Let loose the true apostolic from their humanistic moorings, and from now on let our cry be 'SAINTS FIRST - CHURCH FIRST. '
When I speak to Churches about outreach, about local mission, their one and all response is, "We do Christians Against Poverty, Redeeming our communities, Prayer for the Police, we help immigrants/migrants to legally stay in the country, we organize food banks, we deploy street Pastors, and we have a great Mums and Tot's group, even a paying nursery scheme."
This answer shows me that 'the dregs' of society are being helped, and good grief Charlie brown, the amount of dregs is increasing daily. ONE of the problems I personally have will all this 'free help' is that I am paying taxes, local and national, for the Govt to fix this. Where are my taxes going? Why should I pay a dog to bark and then howl at the moon myself?
Local churches are engaging in these social action, they will say, to 'incarnate the Gospel' in love and good works, to earn the right the preach the Gospel. HOGWASH! We need to question these terms we so easily genuflect before as the convoluted religious rubbish they are. Christ is the only incarnation of the Gospel and He died to pay for men's sins. We have a COMMAND from Him to preach the Gospel, we do not need to earn any right to gain a hearing. I wonder if two of the main reasons we are engaging in such social action is 1) To make people like us. To present ourselves as no threat to them whatsoever, that we might live out our little lives in peace. 2) We are being led by 'women,' whose tendency is to mostly care. (Note..you can still be male and act like a woman.)
My answer the the first is that Jesus said the World would hate us. Why? Because of our message of sin, righteousness and judgement to come, enshrined in the need to repent and believe. We should not court the liking of the lost. It is death to the Gospel.
My answer to the second is that men, real men, masculine men, will NOT be led by mothers or sisters. Look now, men follow men and I tell what Charlie Brown, our churches are almost empty of these kinds of men.
Let the Deacons become what they should be, that is, the carers of the saints and the church. Let the elders be what they should be, men dedicated to the ministry of the word and prayer. Send out the evangelists! Let loose the true apostolic from their humanistic moorings, and from now on let our cry be 'SAINTS FIRST - CHURCH FIRST. '