Becoming A Holy Versus Healthy Church

The danger is making unity the objective. Because of all the different interpretations of who Christ is, for the sake of unity, you would have to go into the Word of God and find what Scripture has in common with Buddhism, Islam, and all the other religions of the world. Once you find what you have in common, you then redefine Christ for the sake of unity, relationship, hope and world peace.

God’s Word is supposed to change us. We can’t go in and change it. That’s what the religious organizations have been pulled into. People go to seminary not knowing that when they go there and take "biblical" counseling strategies they are rooted in psychology, sociology, and anthropology. The danger is learning how to read the Bible in order to define God’s Word in changing times – actually redefining it for the sake of meeting the felt needs within the community and drawing people in. The Bible calls these felt needs, "the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life" (John 2:16 KJV).

If we use felt needs, which is our fallen human nature, as our agenda, we have changed our belief system. If our agenda is to bring people to the Lord Jesus Christ, we must proclaim the Law which brings them to realization that they are a sinner. The only way they can have their sins covered is through the blood of the Lamb, Jesus Christ the Messiah who said, "I am the way, the truth and the life." He didn’t say, "I am the feeling." You don’t come to God through feelings, you come to Him through facts, through the truth of His Word. What did Jesus say about unity?:

"Suppose ye that I come to bring peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division." (Luke 12:51 KJV)

The Law Of God

Human standards are what psychology and sociology are based upon. They’re not built upon God’s standards. We all fall short of the Glory of God. We’ve all broken those laws. They’re not changeable. We can’t justify the changing of them to make them user friendly for the continuation of relationship with mankind and God. We must realize the hopelessness of saving ourselves and that it’s only in Christ that we receive our salvation. That’s contrition and that's what is being left out today. Now it’s social sin. It’s bad behavior based upon how we relate with one another. Pastors are afraid to speak against sinful behavior because they may be labeled as not loving or tolerant. The Bible tells us to,

"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world" (1 John 2:15).

The primary agenda of Christianity is that a personal relationship with Jesus Christ means we might stand alone. Jesus said that we must "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it" (Matthew 7:13-14 NIV).