Churches that don't know God - Part I

A World that lacks God, where can we find such a thing? Well obviously in the World, but let's cut down to the chase and go to the most obvious place and that place is the majority of churches.

We live in a world that says “there is no God because look at all the Christians. They're just as bad as everyone else”.

How sad I am to have to agree with such a thing – but it is true. There are just as many people in churches as there are outside of churches that are getting divorced. There are just as many people in churches as there are outside of churches that are going through depression. There are just so many things that people in the churches are going through as much as people outside of these churches.

The questions to be asked are: Why is this? and How is this?

The why and the how actually are tied together in this. Most people in the churches worship an image of God they've created in their heads but that image of God is not the God of the Bible. Most people in churches think it would be cool to be God, and from there they try and be God. Unfortunately, most of these “Christians” don't know God.

My question is – if they don't know God how can they lead others to him? If they don't know God of course they can't follow his standards.

People!!! We have been given a gift! That gift is a man, and that man was named Jesus. Jesus came to show us the way to God. To bring us back to God. Now here lies the problem, most people don't want to know Jesus, even “Christians”. This is the one thing I find sad.

Jesus told his disciples that they are the light of the World, and that they are the Salt of the Earth. We live in a world that teaches we need stuff in this world to survive. Obviously some people haven't read the scriptures where we would no longer need the sun of this world, because we have Jesus at the center of our lives and He is the light and we need nothing else apart from Him.

People in churches don't know God because they don't know Jesus. People don't know Jesus because they don't take time to read their Bibles. Many people who attend church don't know Jesus because they hear a message from a pastor that teaches about “you need this and you need that and you need this and you need that” - when the only thing the pastor should be teaching is “you need Christ”.

I'll be honest, there are many things in this life I may want – but the only thing that I need and want is Jesus Christ. From there, I'm rediscovering who God is every day and it's the most beautiful thing ever. Unfortunately, this isn't being taught in many churches because the people teaching the churches themselves don't know God.

Now – go ask a “Christian” that you know – and ask them what it would look like to “love your neighbour as yourself”. The answers you will receive will be shocking. I generally get an answer of “well it means to love your neighbour in a way that you would want to be loved” - which isn't really answering the question but rather is rephrasing what the phrase is.

All I can say is this: the church needs to repent and turn to Jesus. Yes, there are many others that also need to repent, but I will continue this in an upcoming message.