On this edition of Generations, Kevin Swanson and Steve Vaughan discuss a recent Wall Street Journal article stating middle-aged Americans are leaving the church in droves. Disillusionment with recent scandals is a big problem, but many say it's because they got too busy to go back. Is Christianity just a brief oasis or a halfway house that we go to to make ourselves feel better, or are we on a battleground where our faith is tested and grown through trials?
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“ Great Sermon! ” Great sermon topic. I can't help but think of the negative references to wayward pastors in Jeremiah when people bring this topic up. Why? Because they are running "churches" on man's principles instead of God's principles so all we ever see are luke-warm sermons, luke-warm sunday school lessons, and luke-warm face-stuffing potlucks where the emphasis isn't on fellowship, but feeding our faces. Yet, in spite of all that, it's the Bible Believers fault that they don't come and sit in the audience every Sunday... The last "church" we were at was so strangely run that they locked the doors after every service because they didn't want people talking to each other (because apparently groups of Christians talking to each other is what led to their last "split" three years previous). Their solution to preventing another church split? They were determined to prevent real fellowship from ever happening again, and the only time people were allowed to talk to each other was basically in the presence of the preacher so he could always be there to moderate... In a way, Bible Believers have the same problem with local churches that home schoolers have had; where does a non-luke-warm God-fearing person or family fit into a luke-warm, non-God-fearing system? Charles
Kevin Swanson has served as elder and pastor of Reformation Church, OPC since its inception. Kevin was raised on the mission field in Japan in the 1960's and 1970's. Together with his wife Brenda, they are bringing up five children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord....
