Food for Thought Why People are Leaving Church - While Still Embracing Christ ~ its a question those leaving are more than ready to answer. The problem is, few insiders are listening (Many say that many Chinese/Asian American churches are just community centers with the hope that their kids will marry somebody from their own nationality while knowing their family members well - a pseudo arranged marriage while staying Im their respective comfort zone where they say God/Jesus a few times before they do their own thing via their Chinese/Asian way) * clergy abuse, the cover-up by the Church, and fundamentalist preachers and congregations have been driving people away from the Church, and continue to drive people away, faster than any other causes combined. * Some say that there are cultural Christians or those who believe themselves to be Christians simply because their culture says they are. But, clearly, he implies they are not. Second, he classifies a group of congregational Christians which he says are not much better off than the first misguided group, except that these are loosely connected to the church. Third, he notes the third group, which no doubt he ranks as his group, that he calls the convictional Christians. These are the true Christians who are actually living their faith, according to Ed Stetzer. Others say there are scores of people who have left the church, not because they possess some phony or inferior faith, as you would like to believe, but precisely because they do not want to be around judgmental people like you. They have left, not to abandon their faith, but precisely because they wish to preserve it. You would be much better off to leave the judgment-making to Someone infinitely more qualified to do so (Matt. 7:1). m.huffpost/us/entry/4086016
Posted on: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 10:17:57 +0000
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