Welcome, Guest: Register On Nairaland / LOGIN! / Trending / Recent / New
Stats: 3,195,068 members, 7,956,989 topics. Date: Tuesday, 24 September 2024 at 01:43 AM

Love Your Church (2) - Nairaland / General - Nairaland

Nairaland Forum / Nairaland / General / Love Your Church (2) (1116 Views)

Join Christ’s Victorious Church! (2) / Love Your Church (3) / Love Your Church (1) (2) (3) (4)

(1) (Reply)

Love Your Church (2) by Btruth: 5:45am On Mar 27, 2018
Love Your Church (2)

Tuesday, 27 March 2018

'Stay with the ship [or] you cannot be saved.' Acts 27:31 NIV

Every church has problems—and the people who cause them. It has always been so. Consider the Corinthian church. Some members got drunk during communion, and others formed exclusive clubs to support their favourite preacher! One guy was even having an affair with his stepmother (see 1 Corinthians 5:1). Sitting beside you on Sunday mornings are some very messed-up and dysfunctional folks. But God keeps working with us, because He sees our potential value to His Kingdom. After writing about murmurers, complainers, the lustful, and the greedy, Jude ends his short book with these words: ‘Unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy.’ (Jude 1:24 KJV)

Noah didn’t jump ship for the same reason you shouldn’t leave your church—there’s no better alternative. Paul and 275 others were in a storm that looked unsurvivable. Nevertheless he told them, ‘Stay on board.’ Does that mean it’s always wrong to leave a church? No, but make sure your reasons are Scriptural and not self-centred. You say, ‘But the pastor’s sermons are too long.’ Paul once preached so long that a man sitting in a third-storey window fell asleep, plummeted to the ground, and died. And what did Paul do? He laid hands on him, revived him, and then went back to the rest of his sermon! (see Acts 20:9–11). Seriously, if your church has problems, don’t leave; stay and pray. That’s how things get changed.

(1) (Reply)

Iphone 5s For Sale / Conflict Resolution By WASH Unit In Ikot Idem Udo, Akwa Ibom State. / Enugu Fashion Tailor Business Academy Training School In Enugu Clothing Sewing

(Go Up)

Sections: politics (1) business autos (1) jobs (1) career education (1) romance computers phones travel sports fashion health
religion celebs tv-movies music-radio literature webmasters programming techmarket

Links: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)

Nairaland - Copyright © 2005 - 2024 Oluwaseun Osewa. All rights reserved. See How To Advertise. 9
Disclaimer: Every Nairaland member is solely responsible for anything that he/she posts or uploads on Nairaland.