my viewpoint on a dangerous church

for me to understand the difference between a SAFE CHURCH versus a DANGEROUS CHURCH, its not that difficult. to really get it, some great analogies can be found in our unsaved past via the people we THOUGHT were our friends as opposed to the people who REALLY WERE our friends.

this is how i see a SAFE CHURCH!!! a SAFE CHURCH is sort of like that group of girlfriends many of us unsaved gals used to go partying with, whenever we wanted to whine and cry in our beer over whatever flame we happened to be obsessing over at the moment. we all know these fair weather type of friends. they spent alot of time murmuring, clucking sympethetically, ALWAYS telling us what we WANTED to hear, all the while thinking OH HOW I WISH THIS PERSON WOULD JUST GO AWAY THEYRE RUINING MY HIGH or I CAN LISTEN TO THIS AS LONG AS THEY KEEP BUYING. this is exactly what a SAFE CHURCH IS LIKE.
it neither makes demands on its members nor wants demands made on it. there is a barney-like mentality pervading it, as they preach a "social" Gospel. I LOVE YOU YOU LOVE ME IM OK YOURE OK.....a Gospel of NO CONVICTION. at best, it presents IMCOMPLETE truth. it claims GOD LOVES YOU THE WAY YOU ARE......umm, somethings missing at the end there.

a DANGEROUS CHURCH-its like that type of friend or loved one that you may end up hating for awhile when they tell you something that may rub you the wrong way, you may even HATE that person and not talk to them for a lomng time, BUT, later, often, you end up THANKING them for it. they may not always tell you what you WANT to hear, BUT they will always tell you what you NEED to hear. i think of my sister alot, when i think of what a DANGEROUS CHURCH is like. wheneve i wanted to cry in my beer over some guy, or whatever self-defeating situation i kept landing myself in. not alot of murmuring sympathetically here...instead i got alot of being told needing to start looking at patterns that kept repeating themselves, looking to see where i was always the lowest common denominator in every one of these problems. thers always RISK whenever one is willing to step out in the area of TRUTH and CHANGE. a DANGEROUS CHURCH is all about RISK and conviction. im currently in the book of ezekiel and one verse stands out in my mind "do not be rebellious like the others...but rather EAT ALL of what i give you." a DANGEROUS CHURCH doesnt deal with watered down, partial truth. it deals with the whole thing. it takes GOD LOVES YOU JUST THE WAY YOU ARE.....and adds on the other half of the statment...BUT HE LOVES YOU FAR TOO MUCH TO LET YOU STAY THAT WAY. a DANGEROUS CHURCH allows the Holy Spirit to use the Word like a mirror, where you look into it, and, NO, youre not always going to like what you see.

often, it really is much easier to deal with outward persecution from the world, than it is to look in the mirror and allow the Holy Spirit to use His Word to tell us that the one who needs to change is ME. well, its like this...a SAFE CHURCH allows us to keep doing our own thing, cluding shifting blame. a DANGEROUS CHURCH carries one of the most important factors
required for TRUE repentence...............THE BUCK STOPS HERE!!!!!!

A SAFE CHURCH-A FORM OF GODLINESS, DENYING ITS POWER. WERE STILL RUNNING THE SHOW.

A DANGEROUS CHURCH- AGOD THAT CAN OPEN THE EYES OF THE BLIND, HEAL THE SICK, TURN WATER INTO WINE. RAISE THE DEAD. GOD IS THE ONE RUNNING THE SHOW