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Trouble In Church

October 4, 2011 by Fritz

The apostle Paul has a disturbing word to those who think that Church should be perfect!

For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you. — 1st Corinthians 11:18-19

Some stay away from church because of all the hypocrites and cliques– but they don’t let hypocrites and cliques keep them from ball games, work, or the various clubs and groups they like.

Sure there are factions and hypocrites in church, the Bible says it must be that way to help us more easily pick out genuine believers — the ones who act like Jesus!

— fritz@langgang.com

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The Biblical Church

October 3, 2011 by Fritz

A lot of people think of church in many different ways but it is good to see how the Bible defines it. Paul, writing to Corinthian believers, addresses his letter,

Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their’s and our’s — 1st Corinthians 1:2

It is not a place or a building, though it meets in all places and even in homes (1Cor 16:9; Col 4:15). It is individuals who have met the risen Lord on this side of life, have chosen to follow him, and have said to others

“If your heart is as my heart,
take my hand — John Wesley

— fritz@langgang.com

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Rights to Complain

October 2, 2011 by Fritz

Anthony Bloom

“If you look at the relationship in terms of mutual relationship, you will see that God could complain about us a great deal more than we about Him.

We complain that He does not make himself present to us for the few minutes we reserve for Him, but what about the twenty-three and a half hours during which God may be knocking at our door and we answer ‘I am busy, I am sorry’…

So there is a situation in which we have no right to complain of the absence of God because we are a great deal more absent than He ever is.” — Anthony Bloom, Beginning to Pray, page 4-5

Purpose to make yourself available to Jesus when there is a stirring in heart; these will be the sweetest times of prayer.

— fritz@langgang.com

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