Force or museum?

Let me ask you a few questions, Is your church vying for the souls of the lost in your city, or is it a museum to a by gone experience?

Are the stories of Gods saving power a generation or two old, or is God actively working in the lives of the unchurched?

If all the members of your assembly have conformed to all the external standards, are you a revival church?

Is the focus of most of the preaching designed to convert the lost or purify and the saints already on the pew?

Lastly how many years can a church go without any new converts before it is considered dead?


I was recently fondly reminiscing about my home church.
It was and is one of the oldest Pentecostal churches in it's area.

On every pew there was a mix of older established saints and new converts in varying stages of development.

A former drug addicts sat one pew behind the family of the pastors sons.
Acholics sat with established saints and called them gramma and grandpa

People from every kind of broken relationships found healing and help beside and alongside those who had been raised in the sheltered of the church.

Quite a few of these people married, first generation convert and 3 generation saint.

Welcome, wanted, needed, and assimilated into the body.

Is your church a museum to a past experience,
Or a tribute to a living, active, saving, concerned and powerful God?

Once you have experienced Pentecost nothing else can satisfy.


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