Consumer-based church | Rapp Report Daily 0168 | Striving for Eternity
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- Welcome to The Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. As we continue to look at some of the ways that the
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- Western culture has been influencing the church, we can see this even in the reasons some people pick to go to which church.
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- In the first century, people didn't have a choice of going to the
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- Baptist church down the street, or the Baptist church up another block, or the Lutheran church, or Presbyterian church.
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- No, in the first century, you went to the church of Ephesus, or the church of Corinth, because there was only one church in the town.
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- Now, what we end up seeing as Western culture has changed and influenced the church, people come to church for what they can get out of it, and not what they can give to it.
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- When you look at 1 Corinthians 12, you see that God gives us spiritual gifts for the explicit purpose of serving the church, not to try to get from the church.
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- In other words, we should be going to church to serve others, not going to say, well, they've got a really good youth program, they've got a great children's program, they have a
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- WANA, they have this, that program, whatever program, or that it fits into your schedule the best.
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- The reality is people are going to church looking with a consumer mindset, which is not a biblical mindset.
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- No, we should be going to church, maybe not even if we agree with everything they teach, but we go to church for the simple fact that we are commanded by God to assemble together and serve the body of Christ with the gifts that he has given us.
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- This podcast is part of the Striving for Eternity ministry. For more content, or to request a speaker or seminar to your church, go to strivingforeternity .org.