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My Husband, My brother in Christ
So, What does a Healthy Church Member Look Like?
There is a book I want that will answer this question Scripturally, written by Thabiti Anyabwile. It lists the following chapter titles:
1. A Healthy Church Member Is an Expositional ListenerAnd apparently each chapter concludes with a short list of questions for further reflection and recommended books for further study.
2. A Healthy Church Member Is a Biblical Theologian
3. A Healthy Church Member Is Gospel-Saturated
4. A Healthy Church Member Is Genuinely Converted
5. A Healthy Church Member Is Biblical Evangelist
6. A Healthy Church Member Is a Committed Member
7. A Healthy Church Member Seeks Discipline
8. A Healthy Church Member Is a Growing Disciple
9. A Healthy Church Member Is a Humble Follower
10. A Healthy Church Member Is a Prayer Warrior
Hmmm... let me now list what our churches are full of:
1. People that want the preacher to take no longer than 20 minutes with topical, encouraging, feel-good sermons
2. People that have no clue what the Bible says because they depend fully on the 20 minute fluff sermons to teach them all they want to know about "god"
3. People that share a palatable, fire-insurance, best-life-now Gospel
4. People that are Sunday 'christians' with no evidence of genuine saving faith, especially when they walk out the doors of the church
5. People who network instead of evangelize
6. Church-hoppers, tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine that focus on being served instead of going to worship and seeking to serve
7. People that pat each other on the back as though their sin is something to be pitied and identified with, instead of loathed, repented of, held accountable to, and possibly confronted Biblically.
8. People who are more comfortable drinking skim-milk from the notes of man's words, instead of searching the Scriptures for themselves as thoughtful Bereans.
9. People that want to be recognized for their work like a Pharisee praying in public, rather than behind the scenes building one little corner of a foundation that will not be seen or recognized by men, but will last and be accounted as worthy before God.
10. People that pray to be blessed with material blessings, naming it and claiming it, as though The All-powerful, Sovereign God of the universe, the Creator of all things, can be told what to do and how to do it.
