1) Pastors function like CEOs
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2) Members are turned into customers
3) Other churches are seen as competitions
4) Evangelism is reduced to marketing
5) Church planting looks more like franchising
6) Numbers are the primary measure of success
7) Prayer and Word study are replaced by formulas
8) Revival is reduced to a few days of fund-raising program
9) Preaching sounds more like a motivational speech. All the people do is shout “I receive, Amen,”throughout the concert. I mean the “service”.
10) Praise and Worship is turned into a performance. The best actors are made the worship
and praise leaders.
11) The Spirit of God is reduced to “emotionalism”. No real power of God other than hypnosis and sensationalism.
12) The saints are entertained instead of equipped
13) Disciples of Christ have become papa’s sons, daughters, and fans.
14) The Church, a living Body has now become a lifeless body
15) A leader’s empire is built instead of the Kingdom of God advanced
(16) The pastor becomes the super man and Jesus Christ reduced to just another religious figure.
Does any one of these sound familiar in this generation? Beloved, if you are under these pattern of “Christianity” you are already in a cult, not the Church of Jesus Christ. Get out before it is too late!
Christianity is not a product that is to be sold to a target demographic. Quite the contrary.
The church is not called to conform their services to the preferences of the people. Instead, the people are called to be conformed by the grace of God into the image of Christ. All people. All nations. Not some. Not a core demographic. All.The church doesn’t offer services. The church serves. People aren’t called to consume. They are called to repent, believe, and follow Christ. They are called to freely give what they have freely received.The Bible describes the church as a body, not a business. The business of the body is to make faithful disciples not happy customers.Catering our product to the preferences of our customers may be good business. But it has no place in the church.
