Kopp Disclosure
(John 3:19-21)
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Scratching the Surface
of
Troubled Churches
(Helping Hints for Healing Troubled Churches and People)
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Some things aren’t that complicated.
Many churches in America are troubled.
10+ churches close their doors for good/bad/ugly every day.
The diagnosis and prescription aren’t that complicated.
Troubled churches have not been loving Jesus by loving like Jesus.
Churches get better when they start loving Jesus by loving like Jesus.
Some things aren’t that complicated.
Many people are flushed, rushed, and razzle-dazzled.
Stressed out.
Transferring that stress to others; or as a shrink said, “Troubled people tend to be constipated. That’s why they dump on you.”
Stressed out.
Internalizing in self-destructive ways; or as Mark Hopkins wrote, “Last year, across the nation, 38,364 people committed suicide…Research tells us that one in seven of our youth report having thoughts of suicide…The question perplexing the experts is ‘Why?’…What is creating the stress that makes suicide a better alternative for the afflicted than living?”
Stressed out.
I heard a talking radio head say 75% of Americans take prescribed or non-prescribed/and/illegal meds because they are sooooooo stressed out.
The diagnosis and prescription aren’t that complicated.
Troubled people are not that intimate with Jesus.
People get better when they get closer to Jesus.
Jesus promised, “Come to Me, everyone who is weary and burdened, and I will take care of you.”
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Blessings and Love!
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Shatter the sound of silence!
Wake up! Look up! Stand up! Speak up! Act up for Jesus!
Salt! Shine! Leavenate!
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2 comments:
Moody had an excellent show this morning about how we let our pain define us, then we get defensive or deflect when someone points out how we are focused on our pain instead of Jesus. We say the tomb is empty but we don't act as if we really believe it!
I had two very significant teachers at WPC both tell a class that they didn’t agree with the original sin doctrine. Obviously they had not read our Confessions, or the Institutes, nor had they thought through the proposition that there was absolutely no need for Jesus to drink of the cup because with our free will we could have remained completely sin free (as we were born that way) and thus God the father is a cosmic child abuser of the highest order requiring Yeshua to drink. They both adopted the Pelagian and Arminian heretical views.
PS There was no other way. Matthew 26:39 Matthew 26:42 Mark 14:36 Luke 22:42
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