We had tried to start a house church and I taught weekly with great discussions but over time people moved away or stopped coming and went back to traditional church. We would invite but people wouldn't come. I also believe we had no one in the group who was gifted in evangelism. I know myself is an introvert and I take a lot of preparation and thought into what I say or will say. So small talk is not easy for me. I like the deep thinking questions, the rich studies and in depth discussions.
Unfortunately this is true for so many self proclaimed Christians. There are Christians who think there are other ways to salvation outside of Jesus, that good people go to Heaven (versus saved people), that the Bible is not the objective Word of God, and morals are subjective to only time and location.
For these people many believe they are not true Christians. For some this is true but for others I just hope it is of ignorance and a infant thinking Christian.
Also for the LGBT issues many do not know how to evangelize these individuals. We have to remember the Church is for the sinner, the pews or seats are for the sinners. But not for false teachers. The leadership is also for those who are following Jesus (still a sinner) but not enslaved to sin. There are Christians who struggle with homosexual or gender confusion. The only difference is if they struggle with the sin nature like us all.
This group statistically are many who have been abused as children, who have been brainwashed by their parents into thinking as a four year old boy they can be a girl, peer pressure or wanting to be accepted has been the leading cause in the rise of teen girl homosexual behavior, other studies show not only peer pressure but environment, upbringing, biology play into lgbt choices (biology as in damage to the brain through abuse or mental illness) and people who have been in bad relationships with the opposite sex, gender dysphoria is a real but rare case where someone is genuinely confused on their gender (this is typically fixed with therapy), and of course, just like the 70s and 80s it has also become a sexual freedom movement and a middle finger to traditional values of a system they have been taught to hate.
This is true. No one has it 100% correct but we all should unite on the doctrines of who God is, Who Jesus is, what Jesus came to do, Heaven and Hell as literal places, salvation, and grace/faith.
Every Christian should study and get to where you are now.
May I ask how do you define God's love? When you pray do you give attention to how God speaks? God can speak through natural or supernatural revelation or general and special revelation.
Natural/general is God moving in nature or a message through other humans.
Supernatural/ Special is God speaking in dreams, visions, audibly, miracles, and revealing of wisdom from His written Word which in my opinion is His most used source to speak to us. Especially through the man of Jesus Christ.
) I don't think preachers should spend very other Sunday talking Dem/Republican and why we need to trust in men and people in Politics, so we agree there, I get very agitated when I see Preachers who do this every week because they are missing the mark, our trust and focus should be on Jesus, but st the same time, instead of trying to say this is nw how we can change things, they need to point to why we lost that ground, and why we will soon be raptured because of ALL THESE SIGNS. My point is the reason we lost these grounds is we allowed Satan to tell us we can't be political, but that is also our job, because we each have VOTES unlike men back before the 1776 US Constitution, where men in Europe were not allowed to vote unless they were Aristocrats. So, we each have a vote thus we have a duty as Christians to represent Jesus with that vote, that's my point.