An Oakville church has been distributing flyers designed to entice the unwary into its sanctuary. The main selling point is that you can make new friends and join a community without having to believe anything in particular. I doubt that this strategy will work since it faces strong competition from the Oakville Lawn Bowling Club: you can make new friends there, too, get more exercise when bowling and – there is “No Need to Believe!”
The flyer points out: “If you come away believing…. hey, that’s a bonus!” As in lawn bowling, it doesn’t matter what you come away believing because it’s the community that is important, not boring doctrinal trivia.
“no need to believe”
And these false prophets have the balls to continue to call themselves a Christian Church!
‘Find ways to make a difference in the world’? Because we believe in the kingdom of man, not the kingdom of God.
When you have an apostate so-called bishop you cannot expect anything else. The time has long since past for the ACoC to weed out apostates including the Primate all of them that worship “political correctness” – a deceptive term in itself – rather that follow our Lord.
Well, obviously a lot of new members will not be believers before they actually make it to church. Seems to me telling people that you don’t have to be a Christian before you become a Christian is a) reassuring and b) perfectly sensible.
I don’t understand your objections.
As Christians we are called to witness to unbelievers. The problem is quite clear. If you invite people in and tell them they do not have to believe, then what are you really saying. Undoubtedly you are aware that many so-called bishops and clergy and worshipping the god of political correctness and are leading many in the pews from the faith. The church is not a social club but rather a place where people can come to know the Lord.
I see what you mean, but that’s not quite how I interpret the flyer’s message. It seems to be saying that you don’t have to be a believer to walk in the door, and that you’ll find lovely people there being lovely to each other and to you — and then it ends by making it clear that the faith is a pretty good thing. I realise this blog will take the very worst interpretation possible of anything it turns its attention to, but in this case it seems like a bit of a reach.