As far as I know there are no home churches in UK at the moment.
The church I used to go to got into the social justice pretty heavy and the Pastor had given the pulpit to someone to address the church his frustration about the George Floyd verdict of the officer and expressed his disdain for police making a blanket statement that law enforcement in general are bad and racist. It got me uncomfortable hearing him talk that way from the pulpit. I felt that shouldn't have been talked about from the same pulpit God's word is preached from. He should have taken it outside of the sanctuary all together. Our assembly of ourselves as the church is to edify, build one another up, not to give speeches on social justice in and vilifying law enforcement..Critical race theory and marxism are even invading very conservative churches. Some Pastors got caught up in CRT after George Floyd
When it happens, the Elders, Congregational President, and other Pastor(s) (if any) need to step in and get rid of the offending Pastor(s)
Parishioners need to complain immediately when they see or hear something that isn't right.
When the evil of political correctness of any kind is cast out of the church (the offending Pastor(s)) fired), the church is stronger, if for no other reason than the Parishioners, Congregational officers, Elders, Deacons, Deaconesses, and Pastor(s) collaborated to expel evil and remain/become stronger salt and light in the world. People learn the church must lead the world, not conform to it, and gain backbone to resist further attacks, evil, and eventual persecution.
Those churches, which fail to expel the evil, are doomed to continued slide into apostasy and their witness compromised. Those, which stand up to the evil get stronger and their members get persecuted, with a glorious witness.
This happened in Nazi Germany. The liberal (state-sanctioned) Lutheran Church didn't stand up to Hitler, kept on compromising, and ended up going along with and even supporting the evil. OTOH, the non-state-sanctioned conservative Lutheran Church stood up to Hitler the best that it could and the leaders and parishioners were persecuted and even killed for being salt and light/not kow-towing to evil. To this day, the liberal church is in favor with society and government, and the conservative church is looked as being traitorous because the zeitgeist there teaches that the government is right and the church is to do what the government says, instead of providing moral and spiritual leadership.
When a church"goes along to get along," the church's reputation is besmirched and it's witness is compromised. Often to the point of having lost all of its saltiness and light, and then there is no credible witness.
No different than churches and Pastors that stand up against homosexual and transgender agendas today. Those, who refuse to compromise what the Bible says, and stand fast, will be strengthened, blessed, and persecuted. Those, who compromise the faith will ultimately compromise so far that Bible-based doctrine of the church will be discarded, in favor of apostate doctrines, which deny the inerrancy of God's Word, and which support and bless sin/evil
I don't know what you think of Johnathan Cahn, but the message he is giving is that the church has to go back to the way it was during the Book of Acts. Tireless and fearless!
Very well stated. The Elders are supposed to be guide rails for the church. For our church, we have Elders but we also have a group of us that look to hold them accountable as well. Not in a bad way but in a biblical way.Critical race theory and marxism are even invading very conservative churches. Some Pastors got caught up in CRT after George Floyd
When it happens, the Elders, Congregational President, and other Pastor(s) (if any) need to step in and get rid of the offending Pastor(s)
Parishioners need to complain immediately when they see or hear something that isn't right.
When the evil of political correctness of any kind is cast out of the church (the offending Pastor(s)) fired), the church is stronger, if for no other reason than the Parishioners, Congregational officers, Elders, Deacons, Deaconesses, and Pastor(s) collaborated to expel evil and remain/become stronger salt and light in the world. People learn the church must lead the world, not conform to it, and gain backbone to resist further attacks, evil, and eventual persecution.
Those churches, which fail to expel the evil, are doomed to continued slide into apostasy and their witness compromised. Those, which stand up to the evil get stronger and their members get persecuted, with a glorious witness.
This happened in Nazi Germany. The liberal (state-sanctioned) Lutheran Church didn't stand up to Hitler, kept on compromising, and ended up going along with and even supporting the evil. OTOH, the non-state-sanctioned conservative Lutheran Church stood up to Hitler the best that it could and the leaders and parishioners were persecuted and even killed for being salt and light/not kow-towing to evil. To this day, the liberal church is in favor with society and government, and the conservative church is looked as being traitorous because the zeitgeist there teaches that the government is right and the church is to do what the government says, instead of providing moral and spiritual leadership.
When a church"goes along to get along," the church's reputation is besmirched and it's witness is compromised. Often to the point of having lost all of its saltiness and light, and then there is no credible witness.
No different than churches and Pastors that stand up against homosexual and transgender agendas today. Those, who refuse to compromise what the Bible says, and stand fast, will be strengthened, blessed, and persecuted. Those, who compromise the faith will ultimately compromise so far that Bible-based doctrine of the church will be discarded, in favor of apostate doctrines, which deny the inerrancy of God's Word, and which support and bless sin/evil
Ask Abba about starting one?
It only takes 2 to "gather"....where 2 or more come tohether in My Name...
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Me, too.
