RE: What would you want in a church
March 5, 2019 at 10:25 am
(This post was last modified: March 5, 2019 at 10:31 am by Drich.)
(March 4, 2019 at 6:53 pm)tackattack Wrote: Rather than asking for the endless list of things most of the site will list that they don't like about "church" or religion, or focusing on the belief in God or which God, etc.
I'd like to know if a new Church denomination of Christians (meaning followers of Christ and the Abrahamic God) were to start a "new church"
what are 3 things you'd like to see in the church statements dictating church behavior and beliefs / what are 3 things you'd definitely not want to see in the "rules of the church"?
Wide range of song from acapella old classics to the latest christian hits.
7 day a week access services everyday same time, praise worship shorten sermon then a q and a session
stop teaching the milk of salvation and focus on the meat of relationship and how to further develop it. (don't need 45 min sermons on why one should be saved directed at people who have under gone the process.
Drop the pretenses. if it is not taught in the bible IE from one or two sources then don't teach it. meaning if you need to cut and compile 10 verses to teach a doctrine, then know it is not a doctrine. it is a preference compiled from scraps of verses. however if a passage speaks to it self meaning if a principle is taught over the course of a hand full of verses a chapter two or even a whole book, that trumps and 10 verse compilation/church preferences.
open books/open accounting.
(we have open accounting now, you'd be surprised at how little is taken in verse demand from the community.)
preacher should be allowed to express political views. (currently it is not legal via a law nixon put out threatening to pull non profit status if the church picked a side.)