Is Church broken? - Part 2

In Part 1, I made some observations about the Church as far as why it is not functioning properly.

I'm not going to go back through all of Part 1, but I will point out a few highlights. I expounded on a few of the points.

I am not a prophet, but I do consider myself a watchman. A Watchman's responsibility is to keep watch and speak up when he, or she, sees trouble coming. Ezekiel 1-3

I see a problem, or as I call it, a hole in the Church.

We go to Church, sing a few songs, listen to a sermon and then go home.

We have become so used to this way of doing things, that it just seems normal. Like this is how its supposed to be.

But is the way that Church is conducted really the way that God intended it to be?

Some of you probably know what I am talking about. Even if you only feel that something is wrong, but you just cant put your finger on it.

Its like in the movie The Matrix. Morpheus is trying to explain to Neo what the Matrix is. He tells Neo that he has felt all his life like something was just not right. Like a splinter in his mind.

I grew up in the church. But something just never quite felt right. There seemed to be something missing.

Well, about 5 years ago, God gave me the vision for Needs Met. Part of the vision for Needs Met was on how Needs are not being met in our Churches.

The way that current Church services are run is just not quite there. Its like a recipe that is missing an ingredient.

A cake just would not quite taste right if it was missing eggs, or flour.

Well, our Churches are missing something and I think I know what that something is.

We go to Church, sing a few songs, then listen to a sermon and that's it. Sometimes there are a few more ingredients to a service, but that pretty much describes most every Church in America.

Whats wrong this picture?

Maybe you don't see anything missing. Its ok if you don't. We have become indoctrinated to believe that this is how Church should be.

After all, this is how Church has been done for decades. So why change it?

Well, the 1st thing Id ask is that just because a thing has always been done a certain way, does that mean that its the correct way and there is no room for change or improvement?

We lived in darkness for many years. Finally someone came along and invented Kerosene and we had light. Now people did not have to go to bed when the sun went down.

We lived that way for a long time. Then someone came along and invented the electric light bulb. Now we had more efficient light.

For years, we traveled by car and had to travel state to state this way. Then one day someone invented an airplane and we suddenly could fly!

I could go on. The point is that throughout history, there has been a way that seemed right to us and that was the way things were done.

Then someone came up with a better way and life changed.

Church has been done a certain way for a long long time. What if there was a better way?

Now Im not saying that we need to re-write the Bible or anything silly like that. In fact, what I am talking about is nothing new at all. Its simply been forgotten.

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