Warning Signs Of A Dead Church Series

WARNING SIGNS OF A DEAD CHURCH

1- (D) DEDICATION TO THE WORD OF GOD

2- (E) EXCITEMNET OF GOD IS LOST

3- (A) ATTENDANCE IN CHURCH IS DOWN

4- (D) DETERMINED TO DO NOTHINHG ABOUT IT.

ACTS 20:28

I believe some churches today are losing the battle to bring in the lost souls and lead them to Christ.

I also believe churches today are drying up spiritually, fundamentally and they even have a lack of concern as to why this is even happening.

God has seen enough of churches waste away to there was nothing left of them, in them and with them.

Have you ever wondered why this or that church that once was flourishing, that was growing just went dead?

I know I have

I want to touch on this subject for a few minutes here on; Warning signs of a dead church.

I ask you here today to take heed to the signs of a dead church.

God still needs the church today. He needs it now more than ever. Today I believe we are in the last days. The church today needs to be anchored to that solid rock.

The very word of the living God needs to be preached, taught, learned and relearned by those that are attending these churches.

This may sound like I’ being harsh or being judgmental here but I believe I have no choice in the matter. God has burdened me with this message.

I may say some things that make you mad or upset but I have to make these points, it might be the difference here at this church.

I would never want this church to be mocked or jeered at as being a church that once had that touch of God and fell by the wayside, would you?

Would you want to be a church where we just played religion or a church that was worshipping the God of our lives, the god of these worlds, we need to get pass this dog and pony show.

What are the warning sign of a dead church then?

The first sign is dedication, dedication to the world of God.

Churches today are not getting any substance from the Word of God. Their pulpits have some watered down version of the Bible being taught from it.

There is no meat in the message, it is all filled with milk and very little of that I remind you. There is nothing to grow on.

Preachers today are becoming scared to preach the Word of God and bring the entire truth to their church.

It might offend them, it might drive them away, it’s got to the point where some churches are not even having a time set aside for the almighty Word of God to be preached!

How sad to see this happening, but it is happening!

Teachers of Sunday schools classes, they might read over their Sunday school lesson Saturday night and that’s about it, then they expect their class to be fed on that the next morning.

I fear that the body of the church doesn’t even take one hour a week to read their lesson, one hour a week to study the Word of God.

The dedication of reading the Word of God is non-existence in churches today.

If we don ot spend time in the Word, then how do we expect to learn it?

What begins to happen is, church membership from the pastor on down begins to empty their souls, it gets to running low on fuel.

Then they start searching out for those things that might fill them up, and what are some of those things?

I would say New Doctrines, you start grabbing at any and all little promises that come your way.

How do you think cults get started? They are started by people that are hungry for the word, not necessarily the Word of God but some type of word to hang on to.

If your dedication to the inspired Word of God is strong, you first see that it is wrong in your eyes and in God’s eyes.

Second is your spirit will be full of God’s Word and you won’t be looking around for some compromising word that will lead you away from the truth.

Church, today we cannot fall into not having the trap of not being dedicated to reading, studying, learning, praying and weeping over the Word of God.

The second sign of a dead church is: Excitement, the excitement of God is lost.

I can walk into a church today and even before the singing starts, before the preacher brings his message, I can pretty much tell you what kind of excitement this church has.

I look at the members, I look to the left and see people just sitting there with a blank look on their face. I look to my right and see members looking out the window like a child looks out when they are sick and see’s all their friends playing outside and wishing they were out there with them than inside looking out.