'Indy Timeline' of Upcoming Events Top 50 Influential (Protestant) Churches
"Almost 40 percent of the 50 most influential churches in the United States are not affiliated with a denomination -- and size apparently equates to influence. Those are among the interesting findings coming out of a survey of more than 2,000 Protestant pastors conducted earlier this year. "
[continued at Crosswalk.com]
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IndyChristian.com Editorial Note: However significant the above report may or may not be... here's a much different point of view that is well worth reading as food for thought...
"Church Influence: Making A List, And Checking It Twice"
by Rebecca Barnes, Editor, ChurchCentral.com
Rebecca Barnes
"Furthermore, I’m pretty sure no typical Americans—even Christians—could come up with the names of 50 churches, much less naming 50 that had influenced them. So the pastoral survey is artificial at best. At worst it is a look in the wrong direction. Sure, Christians should encourage one another, influence one another—especially Christian leaders and their churches—but, ultimately, the task of churches is to..."
[continued at ChurchCentral.com]
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The majority of these "churches" and their senior pastors on this list have no clue what the true Gospel really is, i.e., how to "get somebody saved." When was the last time you heard Rick or Joel mention sin? When was the last time you heard T.D. or Bill mention Hell or God's wrath? When was the last time these people didn't say something that just tickled everyone's ears leading the vast majority of their adherents down the broad road to hell because of their self-fufillment, easy-believism gospel rather than the true Gospel of self-denial, holiness, righteousness, being born-again, and the glorification of God?
Please visit www.livingwaters.com and www.sliceoflaodicea.com for much, much more information on the state of modern evangelicalism today. These sites represent ministries that truly have so changed my thinking I can unequivocally say that I, as a lifelong "Christian," had never been truly born-again until recently. To God be all the glory! Are you sure you are?
"Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?--unless indeed you fail to meet the test! I hope you will find out that we have not failed the test." -2 Cor. 13:5-6 (ESV)
Rebecca/Chris... 'Pastor Paul' at Indy Heights Community Church seems to agree with you.
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