I'M SAD

                                               I'M SAD

I'm sad today because,
The church is no longer seeking and speaking the TRUTH of GOD'S WORD
The church is so immersed in arguing over what "denomination" they should be. They even fight over the Immersion or dipping. I ask does the "denomination" make you HOLY? Does dipping or immersion make you more SAVED?  One church says you have to be reBaptized every time you sin. They struggle just to BE Saved, so they are in no Spiritual position at all help to others! They have absolutely NO KNOWLEDGE OF WHO JESUS THE CHRIST IS or what HIS SACRIFICE MEANS!!! Some say the churches of today, Christ has one Church, one Bride,

EPHESIANS 4:4-6 THERE IS ONE BODY, AND ONE SPIRIT, EVEN AS YE ARE CALLED IN ONE HOPE OF YOUR CALLING; ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE BAPTISM, ONE GOD AND FATHER OF ALL, WHO IS ABOVE ALL, AND THROUGH ALL, AND IN YOU ALL.

Some say you have to be baptized in The NAME OF JESUS ONLY to be correctly baptized. With such infighting, anger amongst the church of today, they cannot see that they don't have The "LOVE" it takes to have compassion for this lost world. But they are thinking that their building will fill up with people because there is a "label" in front of their "pretty" building. Never once have they stopped to seek GOD, and ask HIM why their building is empty in the first place. The building is to assemble ourselves, even more as we see the day approaching, but you are to gain strength from fellow believers and strengthen them. To learn from. To tell them to be strong in the LORD and the POWER OF HIS MIGHT, when they are persecuted. Coming inside a building is not going to church, WE ARE THE CHURCH. Some believe that Scripture means we are to assemble ourselves more, but it means to exhort {strongly encourage} each other more and more as we see the day approaching.

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HEBREWS 10:25 NOT FORSAKING THE ASSEMBLING OF OURSELVES TOGETHER, AS THE MANNER OF SOME IS, BUT EXHORTING ONE ANOTHER: AND SO MUCH MORE AS YE SEE THE DAY APPROACHING.

MATTHEW 18: 20 FOR WHERE TWO OR THREE ARE GATHERED TOGETHER IN MY NAME, THERE AM I IN THE MIDST OF THEM.

The church is wondering, what their church should offer. What kind of music will fill our chairs? The old songs are outdated the new ones repeat too much and are too long. The old Sacred Hymns, or the New music of Praise and Worship? Yes, the fight is on! What about the Preacher, what should he look like? Should he be old, so he will look like he has more Knowledge of The WORD, Or maybe he should be young, hip, and cool? He must have charisma, the more he says "PRAISE GOD" the better. The church is wondering should we have one service, or should we have three a week? Not too many because the church has too much other stuff to do.  The church is wondering how many windows will make the difference in the empty chairs? Should we have a light show, when the preacher comes out, for his twenty minutes? Should the church have a red carpet or a purple? Should they have carpet? What time should their service be, too early no-one will come, too late you will interfere, with the lunch in the oven, the football game, or my medicine I take. What kind of chairs should we have, the ole Holy pews, or new cool chairs? How do we get our buildings full? Should there be a coffee shop in the vestibule? Hey! Should there be a vestibule? We can offer a food pantry, but how much money should we pay for the groceries? How many families will we give the food to, how many will be enough, to see if they will come for church service? How many times should you give food to a family? What if you are giving to those drug addicts with their tattoos, smelling of cigarettes, or just lazy people? DEFINITELY NOT MORE THAN ONCE! Anyway, we need to think just who will get the groceries and give them out in the first place? That will require a commitment from you, every time you have to be there. Well, put that on the back burner for a while, but we will definitely try to get a committee together for that. Clothes Closet??? {oops too much!?}
Some of the church says they should go after the older people, they have more money, others say forget the old people, for they have lost their worth. The older people like small churches, so they can be in charge. Some say the church should offer Vacation Bible school, but there is no one to teach them. We should try to appeal to the young though, we can have a pizza party, or how about a skating party, anything to get the kid interested in coming, then you will have more of a chance to get the parent too. Maybe the church should try to get the young adult, we will offer children's church, we can offer sitters so the parent won't have to deal with a bored squirming child. It's amazing how the old folks had two, three, or more kids and weren't bothered by them...js 
The church should be entertaining, have singing groups come to sing. Have television Preachers come when our Preacher is somewhere else, maybe on television, no matter they haven't seen him for months.
Oh!  Talk about mean, may I mention the business meetings, that are nothing short of an out-in-out brawl, just mention a sick or out of work-family that is in need, people that could use and would truly be thankful for just a "FEW" dollars, of the thousands of dollars, that are hoarded for when the church is severely persecuted, by the air conditioner going out. Meanwhile the needy are going without food, housing, medicine, or just personal needs. Maybe you can give them the air conditioner box to live in, when or if you ever get it.
Now can you see why there are empty chairs in the buildings? They are not making disciples, they are doing their duty of being there.
Hum, seems like to me, the church is making the building more important than it is supposed to be.

MATTHEW 28:19 GO YE THEREFORE, AND TEACH ALL NATIONS, BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND OF THE SON, AND OF THE HOLY GHOST.

MARK 16:15 GO YE INTO ALL THE WORLD, AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE!!!

JOHN 13:34&35 A NEW COMMANDMENT I GIVE UNTO YOU, THAT YE LOVE ONE ANOTHER; AS I HAVE LOVED YOU, THAT YE ALSO LOVE ONE ANOTHER. BY THIS SHALL ALL MEN KNOW THAT YE ARE MY DISCIPLES IF YE HAVE LOVE ONE TO ANOTHER.

LUKE 18:8 I TELL YOU THAT HE WILL AVENGE THEM SPEEDILY, NEVERTHELESS  
WHEN THE SON OF MAN COMETH, SHALL HE FIND FAITH ON THE EARTH?

SINCE WE ARE THE CHURCH, WE ARE DISCIPLES OF CHRIST, I HAVE TO ASK, WHERE IS THE FAITH? 

WHERE IS THE LOVE, THAT JESUS was talking about, the LOVE that OTHERS WILL KNOW US BY? 

IF I'M SAD, JUST WHAT DOES JESUS THINK?