Well if you have been reading my blog you will know I am presently studying at Kingsley and it is good...very good. I must say though it is causing me to be uncomfortable and words that come to my mind, like disillusioned, disturbed and uncertain have crept in there.
I am disillusioned because of what I am learning... with stats like after 2 years most Christians have no unsaved friends anymore, and that most of what the modern churches reach in "evangelism" is mostly those who have already had a taste of God in the past, it disturbs me that this is true and i know it is for my life.
That we as the church of 2007, seem to have no idea in how to reach our unsaved communities, we are good at offering a cup of water in many cases, but not so good at getting them saved. I guess you only have to check stats of our own movement in our own nation to see how effective we have been in this.
Why is it so hard ? do we really care that it is hard ? or have we just denied it and ignored it and decided to just maintain what we have because that is hard enough ?
I am struggling with this.... I know I am on earth for a purpose and I have a destiny in Christ and as much as I fail Him, I do not want to do that.
I want to win for Him and to win others for Him, and yet I have fallen for the trap, that it has left me also, ineffective in this great cause.
I have just turned 47 and probably half of my life is over, what will I do with the other half ? hopefully not repeat the same old mistakes and hopefully not be ineffective any more .
so I am going to go out on a limb...... get out into the deep, so to speak, where if you don't swim you will sink and drown...
If they are not asking the questions that I have the answer for, and if they don't even care about the truth that I actually have, and it is highly possible that in this post modern world that maybe the church has a truth no-one cares or respects anymore...
we are just going to have change the way in which we reach this world...
the message hasn't changed but our methods must. (and its time to stop talking about it and the all the theories and actaully do it )
I am going to take church out there and confront people with it...
NO.. not like you think I might,
but way different than what we would normally do.
Relationships.........Neutral location.......... slow process..........weird time.............
one at a time.... music ? doubt it......
preaching ? probably not..........prayer ? absolutely......
is it church ?
YOU bet.
will it work ? Hope so.... there are too many souls going to hell for it not to be tried .
so I am saying NO to HELL, and a resounding Yes to heaven.