That top 10 list is the shallow version of folks’ ‘why’. Most local churches have lost their way. When 95% of staff time, energy, dollar resources go into the one hour ‘event’ on Sunday, and when even most pastors and church members agree that our faith ‘isn’t about Sunday morning’– you have a serious disconnect.
When fewer than 2% of our youth stay in church after high school/college—you have a serious disconnect.
When you define worship as ‘singing some songs together’— you have a serious disconnect.
When the most important Question of the Day is how do we get more people to come to church— you have a serious disconnect.
When it’s more important to be a ‘good’ church member than it is to be a follower of the Master and making disciples— you have a serious disconnect.
When churches try to defend all their usual practices that are failing week after week and when pastors burnout because they have impossible expectations of themselves and place on them—you have a serious disconnect.
99.99% of the local churches simply try to rearrange chairs on the deck of the Titanic—that’s a waste.
Until local churches are willing to die and fall into the ground (and do what the Master has asked rather than what it takes to do the same old thing— you will only have nice rows on the sky deck.
Until people and church leaders seriously are willing to hear the voice of the Lord, and obey, instead of doing whatever they think it takes to keep the operation…
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