Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world - not to win them, but to be like them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When pastors don't have rich spiritual lives with Christ, they become victimized by other models of success - models conveyed to them by their training, by their experience in the church, or just by our culture.
Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.
The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil.
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.