How Your Congregation Can Come Alive!
Categories: Church of Christ Bulletin ArticlesThe following are ten ways in which your congregation can be resurrected from spiritual lethargy:
1) Never be guilty of offering up vain worship to God (Matthew 15:8-9). Your aim and goal should be to worship God in spirit and in truth (John 4:24).
2) Do not tolerate immorality within your congregation: “For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, theft, false witnesses, slanders” (Matthew 15:19).
3) Let your vision come from God’s Word and not from any other source (John 17:17; Gal. 1:6-12).
4) Encourage all members to work in harmony, unity, and a “working together” spirit. Acts 2:44 says, “And all that believed were together”; and Acts 4:32 says, “And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and soul.”
5) Allow your faith in Christ to be child-like (Matthew 18:3-4).
6) Learn not to set limits on your forgiveness – not just seven times! (Matthew 18:22). Nothing stunts the growth of a congregation like the unforgiving heart (Matthew 6:14-15).
7) When you pray, believe: “Everything you ask in prayer you shall receive” (Matthew 21:22).
8) Never give up! When you come to that obstacle that looks unmoveable, remember what Paul said in 1 Corinthians 15:58, “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.”
9) Encourage all members of the congregation to give liberally (1 Corinthians 16:2; 2 Corinthians 8:1-5; 2 Corinthians 9:6-7). The church needs money in order to fulfill its responsibilities which are: evangelization, edification, and benevolence. We must support the church that it may do its God given work.
10) Your congregation must be a friendly congregation. If you are, you will be an encouragement for others to come and help in the Lord’s work.