It's been way too long since I last made a posting but recently something has really got me mad....made by a 'Really Stupid' conference group. The guts of their message is that if your church is not growing you are not a New Testament church.......and sure enough if you go to their conference they will tell you how to be a growing New Testament church....with the customary huge emphasis on the collection of course.

You are also not a New Testament Church if you have full time staff, if you have dedicated building,if you have a youth ministry, and of course you must be seriously persecuted and personally know people who are imprisoned for their faith. You must also have no Bible and no books on the Bible and there are no conferences telling you how to live!

To oversimplify the New Testament Church not only sets up people to try and be something that did not exist as it is promoted but also does not honour those in the New Testament Church that had to really endure for their faith.

When are we going to start telling people not to go to these 'Really Stupid' conferences that sound so good to some and yet are so wrong!

This entry was posted by Angry and Shallow, on Thursday, July 19, 2007. You can leave your response.