Anyone familiar with the concept of total war?
Well it is commitment of all its resources, time and manpower of a nation to ensure its victory.
Christians have a more important enterprise...to ensure that everyone hears of the love of God through Jesus Chirist and receive a taste of that love through grace-empowered and love-compelled Christians....why aren't we pouring all resources into it instead of church buildings?
This enterprise is a bit like war..God can do so much of the fighting but a lot of it is up to us.....the US can overthrow Saddam and give the Iraqi people a chance to build a democratic and free nation...but it is up to them to do it but they can also choose to take vengeance and plunge the nation into darkness again...more important than a democratic and free society..though especially the free is important in the spread of the Gospel..is people hearing it...
Personally I am too afraid to do street evangelism but I know I have enough guts and detached enough from the world to work some rural areas...and there be the hands and feet of Christ..
I feel uncomfortable with prosperity gospel in many curches..God blesses but is it not so it can go into the total war effort and not the new church building?
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dat's true...wat u said... but be realistic, church buildings r not a total waste of money, if church goers r all gonna sit in public fields and hear the preacher like what Jesus did... u think d ppl in this society will get saved? maybe... maybe not...do u think the old uncles n aunties wanna sit on grass in the hot sun. even the young fellos like me....wanna sun in the scalding weather or be rained on? no thanks! so be objective... yes we should help if there're war n natural disasters.... by all means send them help,but is it right to drain the church's resources dat way? a church building... might not seem much compared to the hundreds dat will receive food and shelter. do think too of the souls saved in church services... are they equally worthy to receive God's love? let God be the judge...it's His money after all.
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