What the Church IS vs. What the Church DOES (pt 2)

Surely some Christian guru of those who speak of leadership and Vision would say that the church must be proactive and not reactive.

I will use two more grounded terms, The church must be biblical and not cultural. The two words of eternal struggle. However, as I told you earlier, one is what the church IS and another is what the church does. Cultural manifestations within churches are practically inevitable. But regardless of these manifestations, the church cannot lose its essence, the centrality of the scriptures, it depends on whether the church is steadily walking where it was called, or what the church is wandering like a stroller without a destination.

The Church of Christ has to be biblical. What dominates the ministry, the preaching, the teachings, the actions, the practical justice, is not what happens in society, but the biblical mandate.

If a time of national famine comes, surely philanthropists, altruists, humanists and moralists will do good. Clearly moved by a personal interest or by the exaltation of society and the common good. The church, on the other hand, should help, and give the bread, reach out, but if it does so, taking as a pattern "what everyone is doing" and not that the Bible tells us to feed the hungry and clothe the naked; then we would be falling into the same error that we warned we would be doing, without BEING.

The church follows Christ through the scriptures, and this involves doing many things that culture and society see well, but at certain times many things will also look bad. We live in a time when a post-religious era is approaching and humanity learns to live without taking into consideration the existence of a creator God, a saving Jesus and Lord and a Comforting Spirit. The constancy of the church in doing what the bible instructs it regardless of the circumstances, is the guarantee that it is not moving by the waves or by fashion, but by what the word tells it.

We must preach the value of life, the sanctity of marriage, the end times. But our biblical foundation should not lead us to do so only when the debate on abortion opens, LGBT marriage or the auguries of a world government, but at all times. It is precisely the preaching of ALL the counsel of God (Acts 20:27) that will help the church not to be merely cultural but a church founded on scripture.

2 Timothy 3: 16-17 (NASB)

"All Scripture is inspired by God and useful to teach, to rebuke, to correct, to instruct in righteousness, so that the man of God is perfect, equipped for every good work."

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