A Church I Would Not Attend
I would not go to a church that would be represented by the following list. This list is probably not uncommon. So if you are attending or thinking about attending such a church I would suggest looking for a different one. So here is the list which I have seen first hand.
- The pastor does not engage in culture; just preaches the word – Gary Hamrick, Jack Hibbs, and Allen Jackson, for example, do preach the word but they also address culture.
- The pastor did not mention Charlie Kirk as a great example of using dialogue rather than boring monologues to engage with real people to help them understand many important cultural truths as well as truths about God.
- No response to an opportunity to show the 1916 Project.
- The response to offering to have youth memorize scripture and engage in conversation – “this is not the direction that I believe the Lord would have us to go.”
- The pastor pompously thinks his way is the only way “I do believe it is the only way to do church at our church”
- The pastor thinks long boring monologues are the Biblical model for doing church – “There are many churches out there that do short messages, discussion groups, and other various activities, but here we prioritize the preaching and teaching of God’s Word as instructed and modeled by Jesus and all the NT writers.” On the contrary, Jesus and the disciples modeled dialogue and addressed the issues of the day.
- Response to an opportunity to show/use Truth Rising – “I have not heard about this documentary, but at this time I do not believe that this is the direction the Lord has for the ministry at our church.”
- No interest in the men’s Every Man a Warrior discipleship even after knowing of its huge influence on prisoners in Africa.
- Has never handed out values voter guides or even mentioned upcoming elections.
- Little or no mention of many valuable ministries and resources to equip parents concerning schools and Godly instruction for their children.
- Does not encourage people toward any valuable parachurch organizations.
- Has not hosted any significant live presentations that could have been done online at little to no cost and hasn’t mentioned any conference outside their own closed group.
- Does not have any interesting guest speakers, just the same pastor every Sunday.
- The pastor would not have been courageous enough to have been one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
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