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Introduction:
Family matters are sometimes to most difficult to deal with.
Family disfunction can be devastating.
So can church family disfunction.
Redemption is not a quick fix for disfunction.
They had disfunction -
Division - Is Christ Divided?
Perversion - There were unspeakable immorality that wasn’t even named among the pagans.
Pollution - They were tempted towards idolatry.
Confusion - in their worship - Confusion in their doctrine.
Sometimes the hardest thing about leadership is knowing what to do when the church is in an unhealthy state.
Where do we turn?
Don’t turn to plagiarism.
Just because one church has had success and turned things around doesn’t mean you and I should grab their box and try to put our church in it.
Kevin DeYoung
Far too much ministry today is undertaken without any concern for holiness.
We’ve found that changing the way we do church is easier than changing the way we are.
We’ve found that we are not sufficiently unlike anyone else to garner notice, so we’ve attempted to become just like everyone else instead.
Don’t turn to pragmatism.
John MacArthur
Pragmatism is quickly replacing supernaturalism in many churches.
It is an attempt to achieve spiritual objectives by human methodology rather than supernatural power.
Its primary criterion is external success.
It will employ whatever method draws a crowd and stimulates the desired response.
Its underlying presuppositions are that the church can accomplish spiritual goals by fleshly means, and that the power of God’s Word alone is not sufficient to break through a sinner’s blindness and hardness of heart.
Paul turned to the gospel.
Desperate times in ministry shouldn’t drive us to the world but to the word.
The gospel is sufficent to deal with our folly.
The gospel is God’s appointed means of saving souls.
The gospel is God’s appointed means of saving the church.
What does God want me to do in this mess where we have normalized disfunction?
Faithfully preach the gospel.
1 Corinthians 1:23 (ESV)
23 but we preach Christ crucified...
Fully apply the gospel.
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