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Whatever religion or doctrine condones or makes allowances for sin is not of Christ. The Doctrine of Christ everywhere teaches self-denial and mortification of worldliness and sin. The whole stream of the gospel runs against those things. Scripture emphasizes the holy and the heavenly, not the sinful and the worldly. The true gospel has not even the slightest tendency to extol corrupt nature, or feed it’s pride by magnifying it’s freedom and power. And it rejects everything that undermines or obscures the merit of Christ, or tries to give any credit to man, in any way. And it certainly never makes the death of Christ a cloak to cover sin, but rather it always speaks of it as an instrument that destroys it. – JOHN FLAVEL

Monday, June 02, 2008

Ten ways to help the American Church cease to stink

OK, some of these may be a bit over the top, but I have to give a hearty "AMEN!" to his descriptions.

From The Detergent Church: Salt and Light or Slop and Tripe? by Doug Giles.

1. Get men who dig being rowdy back in the pulpit.

2. Could we have some sound doctrine, por favor?

3. Preach scary sermons (at least every fourth one).

4. Get rid of 99.9% of “Christian” TV.

5. Quit trying to be relevant and instead become prophetic contrarians, I’m talking contra mundus, mama!

6. Put a 10-year moratorium on “God wants you rich” sermons (yeah, that’s what we need to hear nowadays, you morons, more sermons about money, money, money!).

7. Embrace apologetics and shun shallow faith.

8. Evangelize like it’s 1999.

9. Push lazy Christians to get a life or join a Satanic Church. (Ouch!! I said some of these were over the top).

10. Demand that if a Christian gets involved in the arts that their “craft” must scream excellence and not excrement.

I could add many more, but this is a good starting point.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Or use excrement in their art...

Steve Harkonnen said...

11. NO ONE turns their heads to the doors during a sermon if someone comes meandering late into church.

12. Get rid of the dress code goons. People are here to worship, not to be dressed to the nines.

13. If you hear coins being dropped into the collection dish, fret not; cringe not. Maybe that person is giving the church their last dime.

14. Do not disseminate church members from non-members. We are all here to simply worship and give our faith to the Lord.

Kamal Weerakoon said...

15. Stop trying so hard to be relevant and exciting. The Bible IS relevant and exciting! Just read it, get convicted, then go convict others!