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Who turned the lights out?
There is a song that we sing here in the south that goes something like this: “there’s a storm out, over the ocean, and it’s movin, this ole way- if your soul’s not anchored in Jesus-you will surly slip away.” Why do I mention the song in conjunction with power failure- because most times when the power fails a storm is the reason it was knocked out. My brothers and sisters I submit to you that there is a power failure in the church. Although many of us (the saints) ar… Continue

I have a pastor friend who insists that a church must be run like a business. He declares that focusing on the spiritual things simply will not pay the bills. He says "if you can't fill the seats you won't fill the plate." I was grieved to hear this from him.....what say ye? Should the church be run as a business or remain a place to "make disciples?"

Genesis 6:1-4 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, 2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. 3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. 4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughter… Continue