My idea of Church briefly is (a place where) believers come together to receive teaching and to worship our Lord as well as tend to one another's needs. We then go out and share our faith at work, home, highways and byways etc.
It may be my imagination but it seems today so much of 'church activity' is program-oriented. Everything has to be turned into a function set up by an activity committee to get the congregation involved in things that hardly pertain to what the Church is called to be e.g. a House of Prayer.
Is this some sort of Church growth tactic to get people signed up in a program so that they form some kind of allegiance and thus stick around?
I may be exaggerating a little but what do others think? May cooler heads prevail.
Oh, here, I'll throw this in to stir the pot....
And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
(Act 2:42)
It may be my imagination but it seems today so much of 'church activity' is program-oriented. Everything has to be turned into a function set up by an activity committee to get the congregation involved in things that hardly pertain to what the Church is called to be e.g. a House of Prayer.
Is this some sort of Church growth tactic to get people signed up in a program so that they form some kind of allegiance and thus stick around?
I may be exaggerating a little but what do others think? May cooler heads prevail.
Oh, here, I'll throw this in to stir the pot....
And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
(Act 2:42)