NEGATIVE CHURCH GROWTH? BY STEVE FINNELL
If your church congregation is experiencing negative or stagnated church grow is that a problem?
The New Testament church did not have negative or stagnated growth in the first one hundred years.
The apostle Paul and Silas were not experiencing negative or stagnated church growth.
Acts 17:1-4....2 Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures, 3 explaining and demonstrating that Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying , "This Jesus whom I preach to you is the Christ." 4 And some of them were persuaded; and a great multitude of devout Greeks, and not a few of the leading women, joined Paul and Silas. (NKJV)
Paul reasoned from the Scriptures. If your church leaders are reasoning from creed books, written by men, or using other extra-Biblical sources, YOU MIGHT BE EXPERIENCING NEGATIVE OR STAGNATED CHURCH GROWTH.
If your church leaders are involved in immoral sexual activity or permit others in the church congregation to engage in fornication, YOU MIGHT BE EXPERIENCING NEGATIVE OR STAGNATED CHURCH GROWTH.
If your church leaders are teaching terms for pardon contrary to the apostles doctrine or permitting others in the church to pervert the gospel of Christ, YOU MIGHT BE EXPERIENCING NEGATIVE OR STAGNATED GROWTH.
If your church leaders fail to call sin by name or skilfully dance around preaching that offends people, YOU MIGHT BE EXPERIENCING NEGATIVE OR STAGNATED CHURCH GROW.
If your church leaders are prone to praise men who pervert and distort God's doctrine, YOU MIGHT BE EXPERIENCING NEGATIVE OR STAGNATED CHURCH GROWTH.
It your church leaders speak about theology in pejorative terms, YOU MIGHT BE EXPERIENCING NEGATIVE OR STAGNATED CHURCH GROWTH.
If your church leaders believe teaching God's doctrine is a form of religious legalism, YOU MIGHT BE EXPERIENCING NEGATIVE OR STAGNATED CHURCH GROWTH.
The apostle Paul and Silas were not experiencing negative or stagnated church growth.
Acts 17:1-4....2 Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures, 3 explaining and demonstrating that Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying , "This Jesus whom I preach to you is the Christ." 4 And some of them were persuaded; and a great multitude of devout Greeks, and not a few of the leading women, joined Paul and Silas. (NKJV)
Paul reasoned from the Scriptures. If your church leaders are reasoning from creed books, written by men, or using other extra-Biblical sources, YOU MIGHT BE EXPERIENCING NEGATIVE OR STAGNATED CHURCH GROWTH.
If your church leaders are involved in immoral sexual activity or permit others in the church congregation to engage in fornication, YOU MIGHT BE EXPERIENCING NEGATIVE OR STAGNATED CHURCH GROWTH.
If your church leaders are teaching terms for pardon contrary to the apostles doctrine or permitting others in the church to pervert the gospel of Christ, YOU MIGHT BE EXPERIENCING NEGATIVE OR STAGNATED GROWTH.
If your church leaders fail to call sin by name or skilfully dance around preaching that offends people, YOU MIGHT BE EXPERIENCING NEGATIVE OR STAGNATED CHURCH GROW.
If your church leaders are prone to praise men who pervert and distort God's doctrine, YOU MIGHT BE EXPERIENCING NEGATIVE OR STAGNATED CHURCH GROWTH.
It your church leaders speak about theology in pejorative terms, YOU MIGHT BE EXPERIENCING NEGATIVE OR STAGNATED CHURCH GROWTH.
If your church leaders believe teaching God's doctrine is a form of religious legalism, YOU MIGHT BE EXPERIENCING NEGATIVE OR STAGNATED CHURCH GROWTH.
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