Wednesday, March 31, 2010
LBBC 2.0
Just launched the Lebanon Bible Baptist website 2.0. We still have some stuff to add and kinks to work out, but the framework is pretty much all there. Let me know what you think.
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i like it, it was visually appealing & it seems better organized then he last one--just make sure somebody takes good care of it this time! I may visit your church sometime, (no guarantee though, I haven't stepped inside a church in years) I don't fit well with the "churchy" type & esp. the legalistic type, i get shunned to the extreme!
Thanks for the input. You'd be welcome anytime. Though I must warn you. In our church you'll find former adulterers, addicts, fornicators, Pharisees, and more. So we are not of the "legalistic type." It's hard to be when grace has saved you from such past lives. I am curious as to why you get shunned to the extreme.
seems like a pretty normal church to me, how friendly are your regulars to new people? Let's just say i'm pretty far off from normal; but not in a bad/sinful way. I will give you an example--I read in your "what to expect" and the attire said from suits to shorts, but what if I was to walk in there in pajamas & fuzzy slippers? would I be loved or hated. One of the places I visited a long time ago i was made very clear to me by several individuals that that was a horrible sin & for disrespected God in His house I just won myself a ticket to Hell...(that was within the first 15mins of me being there! FIRST time too) I took a u-turn and just walked out--& on the way out somebody shouted they call it sundays-best for a reason! I stopped, bit my tongue and kept walking. My friend, I could step into your church but I don't think I would be love & accepted at this time; i'm positive that a some would be nice to me, but know that all, not just some, but all the members of this particular body of Christ should show his love
Wow. Sounds like quite the experience. I don't know exactly what some of our people would do if a person walked into our building dressed in pjs, but I'm quite sure you wouldn't be shouted out. Yikes!
I think maybe you have the wrong idea about what a church is. You say that not some but all need to demonstrate the love of Christ. I quite agree, but I'm afraid that this side of Jesus' return that just isn't going to happen in any church. Couldn't we say the same of ourselves. That not some but all of our life, choices, thoughts, words, actions should display the love of Christ. Too true, but hardly reality. The church, not just our church, but all churches are made up of people at different stages of maturity. Some haven't realized the implications of Jesus' lordship over, say, their sex lives, so they are fairly loose. Some haven't realized God's grace, so they are fairly self-righteous and arrogant. Some are much wiser and more mature. But no church has nothing but mature believers. If it does, then that church isn't doing its job. Because they should be bringing in new people, and new believers aren't going to start off mature. Sad to say it, but I don't walk into the church and feel totally accepted by everybody. And I'm the pastor! For that matter, I can't say that every time I walk into my own home I am accepted exactly as I am. But I don't think that means I should stop going home. The truth is I don't walk into my home and accept everybody exactly as they are either. We are all works in progress.
When we say that we are about living out the gospel, this is exactly what we mean. Jesus didn't come to us because we would accept him. He came to serve us and die for us when he knew we would kill him. In 1 Corinthians 13 (the love chapter) Paul says that loves "bears all things" and "endures all things." That command isn't just given to other Christians to bear with us. That command is given to us to bear with their immaturity, self-righteousness, childishness, etc.
I hope I'm not coming off too forceful here. I'm not saying you should or must come to our church. But I really do think you ought to ask yourself whether it is right to keep out of all churches until they are filled with nothing but perfectly loving people. I have known some people, and I'm not saying you are one of them, but some people who don't commit to a church because, frankly, they think they are too good for it. The church, they think, is too self-righteous. But they haven't stopped to think whether they are self-righteous about not being self-righteous. Just stuff to think about.
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