How Churches Die – IOTW Report

How Churches Die

“George Washington was one of the founding members of Christ Church in Alexandria, buying pew No. 5 when the church first opened in 1773, and attending for more than two decades…
 
“…the church’s leadership said the twin memorials [to George Washington and Robert E. Lee]  which are attached to the wall on either side of the altar, are relics of another era and have no business in a church that proclaims its motto as “All are welcome — no exceptions.
 
“ ‘The plaques in our sanctuary make some in our presence feel unsafe or unwelcome. Some visitors and guests who worship with us choose not to return because they receive an unintended message from the prominent presence of the plaques,’ the church leaders said…”
 
“Jesus will be the next one excluded from the Episcopal Church. Oh, wait–that’s already happened.” – H/T Bye Bye George

23 Comments on How Churches Die

  1. “All are welcome – no exceptions” … except George Washington, Robert E. Lee & anyone else from that are ‘relics from another era’

    … such exclusive inclusives …. btw, God loathes hypocrites

  2. It gets harder and harder to find a Church these days that truly teaches the Word of God. Hate the sin not the sinner has turned into they shouldn’t preach against the sin because it might offend. Those who even still believe in sin that is.

  3. Many Churches yield to man’s feelings and character
    while ignoring the character of Jesus and the Word of God. They tone down the scripture and condemnation of sins.
    The pastors and elders wish their congregation to be “comfortable” and not offended, to return to the pews each Sunday, give tithes, build bigger social programs and bigger buildings to draw in more pew sitters, more tithe givers, more social clubs and bigger buildings.

    “Many people are caught up with the toys of contemporary society. Because of great advancements in our culture, some have cultivated an attitude of “comfortability.” They may be going to hell, but it is going to be a comfortable ride for them.”
    ― A.W. Tozer

  4. There’s no problem, though. Joel Osteen says, “I’m OK, you’re OK. God forgives you, as long as you repent your sins. Jesus loves you, therefore all’s right in the world.
    By the way, don’t forget to leave your donation in the box on your way out.”

    Did I leave any of the buzzwords out?

    I could go on.

    🙂

  5. Too many churches have become social clubs, there being no difference between them and the Rotary Club, the Lions Club or many other good service organizations.

    Churches should support the poor and help the helpless, but their main job, which they seem to have forgotten, is to preach and live the gospel, which warns of human failings and their consequences.

    We all need more teaching about fearing of God’s anger than teaching of how God loves us. He loves us always, but he doesn’t like us much when we go our own way and do not follow his laws.

  6. The Left first targeted the Catholic Church by infiltrating it with homos. It’s now corrupt from top to bottom.

    Same Leftist tactics have worked with CofE in UK and Episcopals in the USA.
    This Alexandria VA church is a textbook success. Over the last few years it was taken over by Lefty women, for just this purpose.

    The Episcopal Church nationwide is dying. Actual Christians are driven off by Leftists, donations fall, financial crises are declared, the Lefties burn through the trust endowments and then the real estate assets, and eventually the Church folds completely.

    The Lefty virus always kills the host in the end. And that’s the plan from the beginning.

  7. It’s about this:

    10 The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue.
    11 Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so. – Acts 17:10-11

    Be a Berean. It’s what set the Reformation on Fire. Once the Word became available to the masses and wasn’t hidden by the so called church, people could examine their wrong teachings and leave……even under threat of death.

  8. ✝✝✝ CHURCHES ARE LOW-LEVEL CULT GROUPS ✝✝✝

    📌 I WAS Catholic for a few decades, and our MUSLIM POPE issued his latest SATANIC SCREED saying you can’t really be Christian w/o the church.

    📌 TRASH! Jesus built ZEEEERO churches, and filled them with ZEEERO bureaucratic garbage, that he knew would get in between the prayer and The Father.

    📌 Muslim Pope is saying:

    “We need to HOARD (and groom your kids) more of your money, and we can’t do that unless you show up. So to reach God, you need US, and our confusing and flat-out RIDICULOUS RULES we made-up-as-we-went-along (not in the Bible, but inspired by God!) that you can’t navigate by yourself. Oh yeah, sure you can go pray outside alone to God in a garden or desert, but we are not relevant when you do that, so get your nice round virgin butts in the pews!”

    📌 BACK TO BASICS 📌
    Time to have small groups of people meeting outside, listening to wise men, getting baptized in rivers, and going out and finding people in NEED in our communities. Not being holed-up in buildings with closed doors with expensive shiny regalia all around and self-important priests blathering on about morals they don’t practice themselves. -Another sacred cow institution people follow because that is how it’s always been.

    THAT’S how churches die! (oh, well, and the unjust inquisitions, torture, hording billions in cash, raping boys and hiding priests in other states)

  9. I remember going to this church as a kid (60 years ago) and standing is awh at the pews that had belonged to Washington and Lee, both great men. I remember that it made me desire to be like them. I have achieved that due to their inspiration. Now these stinking Yankees have moved into the area and once again reconstructed us. Who do kids look up to today? Spacey, Weinstein or some of the other perverts the left likes. It is time to secede again.

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