Thanks to Billy Watson for posting this article from Outreach Magazine. The link to the article is below this excerpt.
All churches love certain things. Some love fellowship, some worship, some prayer. Those are good loves. Some are neutral loves. Some are not. Other churches love their building, their history or their strategy.
Those can be good or bad, depending on what we mean by love and how we value those things. But, some things that churches love hurt their mission and hinder their call. Here are three I’ve observed from my work with thousands of churches.
1. Too many churches love past culture more than their current context.
http://www.outreachmagazine.com/features/5329-3-things-churches-love-that-kill-outreach.html
Tags: children, church, future, love, methodist, outreach, past, present, united, Wesley
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