Frustrated
If you wish to consider this a rant, then by all means go right ahead.
Why?
Why will no one stand before a gathering of professing Christians and ask,
Why do you do nothing in the Church?
Why are you not producing fruit for the Lord?
Why is Sunday morning the only time you have for God?
Why would the only time you will openly profess Jesus be when you are in Church or when you are asked?
Why are you not praying outside of a led prayer time or in times of trouble?
Why are you not seeking God?
Why is the Church not a place of corporate worship but instead only a place for socializing?
Why do you not open your Bible except at a Sunday or Wednesday night service?
Why do you not share the Word everywhere you go?
Why do people you meet not know you are a follower of the Lord?
Why is your church in a state of discord?
Why do your deacons think they are the leaders in the church instead of servants to the church?
Why do those in the congregation not understand Hell or the wages of sin?
Why do so-called believers feel they have no obligation to God?
Why is there no discipline in the Church?
Why is there little discipline in the home?
Why does no one discipline today?
Why are you not praying for the lost?
Why do those in so-called Christians households feel they have an option of not attending Church?
Why are there so many lost folks?
Why are families, sports teams, social activities, hobbies, kids sports, vacations, and numerous other things taking priority in the lives of those that profess to be Christians?
Why are our Sunday school classes filled with teachers that do not have enough Bible knowledge to teach a class without quarterly guides?
Why are many churches plagued with career preachers instead of God-called men?
Proverbs 3:5-6 5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
No matter where you go in this nation, you are more likely to hear a sports team chant than you are to hear about Christ from professing Christians.
You will hear about a golf game or a child’s soccer accomplishment, a race result, or about a movie before people will speak the name of Jesus. As a matter of fact, it is a very rare occurrence to hear the name of Jesus outside the church building by those that claim to be saved.
To be completely honest, during my entire life I have had far too few experiences outside of the church building that I knew a person was a Christian. And we ask why our Churches are empty?
When these questions are presented, I hear, “Well, so many are so lost they don’t know any better.” What a sad, sad cop-out that statement is! I can’t expect Godly actions from ungodly people, but many are still lost because Christians have been grossly irresponsible for about six decades now.
Christians are not out making disciples of the nations, they are sitting in front of their selves doing exactly what Satan lures them into as a distraction from Godly activities! We are, as it says in Ezekiel, “rebellious children” rather than obedient children! God told Ezekiel not to be like they are.
2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Until we can find it in our desire to follow this Scripture, the only change we will see will be an increase in evil!
Your mind is a Garden, and your thoughts are its seeds;
You can grow wheat, or you can grow weeds!
Kenneth Kellar
A Man Called by God to Teach and Disciple