Wednesday, March 04, 2009
As this blog site is dedicated to evangelism, outreach, personal work, church growth, names that I use to basically mean the same thing, we want to bring a lesson on how to help make the church a center in the community.
As we are always ready to leave "on the spur of the moment" with "Disaster Assistance to help people, we may have to interrupt, but as long as we are home, Howell, Tennessee, we want to bring this lesson. It has helped us at Howell to reach others with the gospel and I hope it will help you too.
MAKING THE CHURCH A CENTER IN THE LIFE OF THE COMMUNITY
1.Where better to learn about Christianity than in church?
2. Where better to learn of Christian conduct than in church?
3. Where better to learn to grow spiritually than in church?
It has been said and I hear it often, in the "old days" people went to church a lot because there were few other places to go. Now I want to tell you, if I live to July 2, I will be 68. I was born and lived in the old days. There were plenty of places other than church to go. We had movie theaters, television, football games, basketball games, baseball games. We had cars. That did not keep us from going to church. By the way that still doesn't keep people from going to church. Turn on the television to nearly any religious program and what do you see? A building full of people. How many of these people do you suppose do not have any other place to go? You see we can help engage the community thru
the church.
When I was growing up the church was very much a center in our lives. It promoted activities with the teaching that promoted my spiritual growth. We can still do this and look to the scriptures for guidance.
Should there still be an opportunity for the church to be a center of people lives?
If the church a center of people's lives will this help them grow spiritually and the church grow numerically?
Can we,by effort and guidance from the scripture, encourage the church to be at the center of peoples' lives today?
YES! YES! YES!!!
In the coming days we will be discussing some ways that may help you make the church a center of life in the community. For those of us already working at that maybe we can share some ideas as to how to improve. If you have some suggestions to help, please email me at donhudsoncoc@gmail.com If you know of other who might profit from these lessons, please tell them about this blog www.donchudson.blogspot.com Don
As we are always ready to leave "on the spur of the moment" with "Disaster Assistance to help people, we may have to interrupt, but as long as we are home, Howell, Tennessee, we want to bring this lesson. It has helped us at Howell to reach others with the gospel and I hope it will help you too.
MAKING THE CHURCH A CENTER IN THE LIFE OF THE COMMUNITY
1.Where better to learn about Christianity than in church?
2. Where better to learn of Christian conduct than in church?
3. Where better to learn to grow spiritually than in church?
It has been said and I hear it often, in the "old days" people went to church a lot because there were few other places to go. Now I want to tell you, if I live to July 2, I will be 68. I was born and lived in the old days. There were plenty of places other than church to go. We had movie theaters, television, football games, basketball games, baseball games. We had cars. That did not keep us from going to church. By the way that still doesn't keep people from going to church. Turn on the television to nearly any religious program and what do you see? A building full of people. How many of these people do you suppose do not have any other place to go? You see we can help engage the community thru
the church.
When I was growing up the church was very much a center in our lives. It promoted activities with the teaching that promoted my spiritual growth. We can still do this and look to the scriptures for guidance.
Should there still be an opportunity for the church to be a center of people lives?
If the church a center of people's lives will this help them grow spiritually and the church grow numerically?
Can we,by effort and guidance from the scripture, encourage the church to be at the center of peoples' lives today?
YES! YES! YES!!!
In the coming days we will be discussing some ways that may help you make the church a center of life in the community. For those of us already working at that maybe we can share some ideas as to how to improve. If you have some suggestions to help, please email me at donhudsoncoc@gmail.com If you know of other who might profit from these lessons, please tell them about this blog www.donchudson.blogspot.com Don
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