Individual Church or Church Unity | Rapp Report Daily 0169 | Striving for Eternity

Welcome to The Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.

This is a ministry of striving for eternity. As we see that the church has been affected by western culture so much that the church now has people coming in with a consumer mindset.

This has affected the way the church as a whole functions. Now this is obviously not true for every church in America or western culture.

But it is, unfortunately, for a majority of them. People who come in with a consumer mindset are very easy to leave when they're not getting what they want and just go to the church up the street.

The other thing that you end up seeing is that when everybody is focused on what they can get from church and their individuality in church, you're not seeing the church unity that is described in scripture.

What we see in 1 Corinthians chapter 12 is that the church should be functioning as one body, many members, all having different gifts, serving in different ways, but all being part of one body.

That is what you end up seeing in the scriptures. That doesn't exactly model, unfortunately, the church that we see today.

And a lot of it is because of the influence of western culture. We have allowed the culture to influence the church.

It is the church that should be making inroads into the culture and sharing the gospel and having an impact on culture.

For the furthering of the gospel is the solution. But we have all too often allowed the culture to influence us because, quite frankly, it's more comfortable, it's easy.

But it shouldn't be so. This podcast is part of the Striving for Eternity ministry.