Blog : GET OUT OF MY CHURCH!!!

726 posts
7/4/2007 2:33 pm

GET OUT OF MY CHURCH!!!

In the Tuesday morning Bible study, one of the elders' wives quoted a phrase out of a book the elders were reading. The phrase went something like this: "If you're not here to work, get out of my church!" This elder's wife thought it was a great sentence. She felt that people SHOULD come into Christ's church with an attitude of service, and if they're not going to work, there's something wrong. A couple of the women in the Bible study felt this was way off because sometimes people who come into the church need a time of healing--spiritual pampering, if you will--and they simply aren't ready or equipped to work when they first come. What do you think? Additional thoughts: This church has grown to about 8,000 now. Did anyone notice that this writer said MY church?
	When we join Christ's church,we need to get to work and contribute however we can
	Sometimes people need a phase of pampering, where they take instead of give

ICorinthians13 66F

617 posts
7/6/2007 8:04 pm

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Then I have a question:
THE AUTHOR OF THIS BOOK IS THE MINISTER AT A CHURCH THAT HAS GROWN TO ABOUT 8,000. WHY ARE THERE SO MANY MEMBERS AT A CHURCH LIKE THIS?ZE]

shouldknow
(Claudia T) 66F

7/4/2007 7:29 pm

1Cor:3:2: I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.

Ti:2:14: Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity

calvarygrad 70F

480 posts
7/4/2007 6:38 pm

We give out of the overflowing of our hearts, not out of the narrowness of the elder's wife's vision. I'd laugh and leave.