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Archive for the ‘Elephant in the Church’ Category
Week 6: Today is our live Q & A Session: Submit your questions here!
Posted in Week 6 - Q&A, tagged q&a on October 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Week 5: The Blindfolded Elephant – The Bible
Posted in Week 5 - The Bible, tagged bible on October 12, 2008 | 7 Comments »
In John 20, Thomas revealed his struggle with a big hurdle to faith–and Jesus reached out to him, meeting him where he was, but challenging him upon receiving answers, to believe. (It seems to me that in the church, Thomas has been used as a negative example of doubt instead of an example of Jesus [...]
Week 4: Spiritual Consumerism
Posted in Week 4 - Spiritual Consumerism, tagged consumerism on October 5, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Non-discipleship is the elephant in the church. It’s not the much-discussed moral failures, financial abuses, or the amazing general similarity between Christians and non-Christians. These are only effects of the underlying problem. The fundamental negative reality among Christian believers now is their failure to be constantly learning how to live their lives in the kingdom [...]
Week 3: Legalism – The Grey Elephant
Posted in Week 3 - Legalism, tagged legalism on September 28, 2008 | 9 Comments »
In an effort to be ultra careful to please God, the Pharisees mentioned in the New Testament came up with a list of 613 laws that they told people to follow. Jesus responded by saying that only a few things were really the important things: to love God and to love people, to remember justice, mercy, and [...]
Week 2: Hypocrisy – The Fake Elephant
Posted in Week 2 - Hypocrisy, tagged hypocrisy on September 19, 2008 | 12 Comments »
“Hypocrites” and “hypocisy” is one of the biggest complaints from average people about the church and church people. So how do we as followers of Jesus:
Avoid being a hindrance to people being able to really see who Christ really is and what the church is really all about, and
Learn to live lives of visible sincerity [...]
Week 1: Christian Subculture
Posted in Week 1 - Christian Subculture on September 13, 2008 | 19 Comments »
Beginning on September 14th, we will be in a series titled, “The Elephant In the Church”, dealing with hard-to-talk-about topics that not a lot of churches would.
Sept. 14th: Christian Subculture, “The ‘Christian’ Elephant”
Sept. 21st: Hypocrisy, “The Fake Elephant”
Sept. 28th: Legalism, “The Gray Elephant”
Oct. 5th: Spiritual Consumerism, “The Circus Elephant”
Oct. 12th: The Bible, “The Blindfolded Elephant”
Then, [...]
