photo #5499154

STOP CHANGING GOD'S CHURCH! Every pastor must continually be on guard against those who insist that changes must be made to the church. Sometimes it's a parade of programs and activities. Sometimes it's the installment of worldly, contemporary style music and services. Sometimes it's the inviting of popular, crowd-drawing guest speakers. Then sometimes it's the casualization of the church atmosphere overall so that people feel more relaxed and the attendance numbers can be increased as potential visitors are assured that your church is a cool, happening, social kind of place where they can meet new people and enjoy one another's company in a warm and friendly environment. That might sound nice, but BEWARE: it's straight from hell. Friend, you have over 160 hours per week in which you can go out into the world and socialize with your friends and fill whatever emotional needs that you might have, but God's house is not the place for it. You can hang-out around the office, in the lounge or break room, at the diner or the coffee shop, and you can even invite people for a warm and casual get together in your home, but DON'T MESS WITH GOD'S CHURCH! Even if only two or three people are assembling together, God's church is sacred, not casual, and your presence there should be for God's glory and for the spiritual edification of other believers. God's church is not a coffee shop or a night club. It's a holy place where holy people worship their holy God in accordance with His holy words. If that makes you uncomfortable, then you should either REPENT or LEAVE, but don't even think of changing God's church. Most churches have already changed, and there are very few left where true, spiritual, scriptural worship can be found. DON'T MESS WITH THEM! Either join them, support them, and grow with them, or just stay away. In the day of judgment, things will go far better for you, if you wasted your life in a bad church than if you helped to ruin a good one. “My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change: For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?” (Pro. 24:21-22)