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So, Now What?

Series: 
church, why bother?
why bother
Date: 
February 24, 2008

The past few weeks we’ve discussed what Jesus’ intentions for His Church were, looked at what the Bible says, and probed into all the reasons people don’t bother with church.

So… now what?

What are the implications for us personally? What difference does it make if people don’t see the same value in church as you do? What about the Journey as a whole? How does what we heard these past few weeks make a difference?

Conversational Evangelism conference

On February 20th, 2008 jon.reid says:

FYI, coming to Menlo Park this Feb. 29 & Mar. 1 (that’s Friday-Saturday):
http://alphana.org/Group/Group.aspx?id=100001944...

http://jonreid.blogs.com/

Looks great

On February 21st, 2008 Arlet says:

Jon,
This looks like a great conference with an amazing line up of speakers. I really wish I could go. I hope others can.

my personal plan...

On February 20th, 2008 jgordon says:
  1. Pursue deeper relationships with my neighbors and our house church while looking to the house church as a place of worship, prayer, and mutual support.
  2. Attend conferences and concerts for the “big event” worship experiences and “big picture” prophetic input.
  3. Seek out the poorest of the poor in Nicaragua and look for ways to bring the kingdom to them and ease their hunger and poverty.

Survey: U.S. religious landscape in flux

On February 25th, 2008 khutala says:

I read this article online at MSNBC.

Survey: U.S. religious landscape in flux
Poll finds Protestant churches in decline, unaffiliated ranks growing

The link is
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23337807

The article reports on a survey about American’s religious affiliations.
I thought some of the facts were pretty interesting and might be significant to what we have been discussing the last couple of weeks.

So, Now What?

On February 28th, 2008 jon.reid says:

What are you going to do to personally live out what you learned?
What are we going to do as a community?

Weigh in on either question…

http://jonreid.blogs.com/

An answer to "Church, Why Bother?"

On April 18th, 2008 Kent-Leinberger says:

Dr. Kent Leinberger: _Why Go To Church?_

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  • If you’re spiritually alive, you’re going to love this! If you’re spiritually dead, you won’t want to read it. If you’re spiritually curious, there is still hope! *

  • Why Go To Church?*

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  • A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday.(or Saturday) ‘I’ve gone for 30 years now,’ he wrote, ‘and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can’t remember a single one of them. So, I think I’m wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all.’ *

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  • This started a real controversy in the ‘Letters to the Editor’ column, much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher: *

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  • ‘I’ve been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals But I do know this.. They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!’ When you are DOWN to nothing… God is UP to something! Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the impossible! Thank God for our physical AND our spiritual nourishment! *

  • All right, now that you’re done reading, if you’re of a mind, send it on! I think everyone should read this! ‘When Satan is knocking at your door, simply say, ‘Jesus, could you get that for me?*

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