first of all, The Church is not a building or a physical structure... the church is the body of christ here on earth, this is made up of all who have accepted christ as their personal lord and saviour.
My answer is a big YES
many would disagree with me; maybe they are waiting for God to show up at their door posts with a placard saying I AM OFFENDEDThe body of Christ needs to wake up. many Pastors today are more concerned with building numbers instead of building members. they forget that a trailer filled with grass(population) will burn faster than the bag filled with gold(content)
inspite of the numerous churches everywhere the bible says the harvest is plenty but the labourers are few.
We are building multi million cathedrals and forgetting to raise men that will defend it.
let me prove it with a few easily verifiable facts for the 'doubting thomases'
*Do you know that the largest church building in Instanbul(Former Constantinople) in Turkey after it was built was taken over by the muslims before it became a museum.
* In the UK many churches are being bought over by muslims
When we talk of evangelism the muslims' are fast converting people and we Christians are busy exchanging people. We preach to people in one church to come to our own church. Where is the power that brings salvation to them that believe (Rom 1:16b)?
The biggest sin I've seen we Christians commit in this generation is use Gods name in vain
Let me tel u how using easy logic
Premise 1: 'Thou shall not take the name of thy Lord in vain'
Premise 2: 'Unless the Lord builds the house, they that labour do it in vain'
Conclusion: It means vain could also be futility, no result
We Christians have become so religious, our amen lack results Even when we pray aright because we have misplaced the potency of the spoken word.
In the north now, almost every allahhu akbar takes at least 20lives
What happened to the short prayer that brought fire from heaven in the midst of baal priests?
We need to repent as a church and begin to take God at his word....
We wonder why Nigeria is as it is today, while lots of prayers are being offered about boko haram and it seems nothing is happening?
We have lost the power behind the word somewhere in the midst of motivational messages,
the church needs to repent... we need to go back to our first love if we need more answered prayers like Elijah of old got instant answers to prayers or like the apostles in the early church.
We caused the slacking so first we need to ask for repentance for 'seemingly' making the gates of hell prevail in our time
Also signs, wonders, back people who preach, when last did you tell anyone about Jesus? Some of us have best friends, colleagues, neigbhours, etc who are unbelievers and we don't share the good news with them,
Let us repent of being selfish and ashamed of the gospel
U are very right sir..preaching d salvation message I believe is how we can see signs and wonders..bt how do we solve ds prob of bcomin daring preachers...
ReplyDeletethe ultimate mark of belief is action... so if we truly believe in God we would go all out and spread his good news across the world without fear, except we doubt his ability to protect, guide, and provide for us. we need to get to a point where we move simply because God said move.
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