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I have no idea where I am going with this, but, I often say the Bible Board is a good place to discuss & think on stuff that comes to mind. Now, please understand I am not pick'n on organized religion, but in my going from one book in the Bible to another this morning looking for something to speak out to me and must say I was being very unsuccessful, sort of got hung up over in Hebrews on the "Mediator" subject, somehow or another I later came to 1st & 2nd Timothy.......NOW, here is where I may be way off base, I mean way out there in left field, but this is where my mind drifted off to and this is the Bible Board, a place to chat on such things....."NO" tar & feathers allowed.

I hear much about the church numbers going down at an alarming rate, which raises the big question of "WHY?" Well if we are honest there is no one set answer other than the devil is very busy and the Christian folks might be falling for his stuff.....Christian folks goes beyond the congregation , probably drifts right into the pulpit, Sunday school literature and so forth. Any way, I came across this in 1 Timothy...1---Paul is writing to Timothy and says..."you may wage the good warfare, having faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected , concerning the faith have suffered ship wreck, of whom Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to satan that they may learn not to blaspheme." --- Then over in 2nd Timothy 2..."But shun profane and idle babbling, for they will increase to more ungodliness. and their message will spread like cancer. Hymenaeus and Philetus are of the sort, who have strayed from the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past." Now while here Paul is speaking of the resurrection, what caught my eye was how they have "strayed from the truth"...If the pulpit has drifted away from the truth and the S.S. literature is concerned about being PC, then maybe this may be a good reason for loosing attendance. Then if the congregation has been duped into PC then how can one witness for what Jesus has done in their personal life. Now, in my jumping around in the Scripture this morning I came across this and can not find where I read it.....but...it was there and I am using my words here, which was my understanding-----No matter what man does God will see to it that the Church will stand. The Church being Jesus Christ.

The lady who cuts my hair was in my S.S. class when I was active, but she told me that our preacher said that church attendance last Sunday was the lowest that it has ever been. An opinion here, it appears that the reasons are all out there, no-one looks inward for the answer. Now I am not placing blame on any one certain person because we live in a world where everything is someone else's fault, unfortunately this attitude has found its way into the physical building we call the church. Over in 1 Peter 4:17 he writes "for the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God." But see, in 2021 this is not the message man-kind want to hear----we want to hear how wonderful we are and look at all the good works we are doing. Now the Christian community might want to tar & feather me, but go into the street and if you have the opportunity ask a non-churchgoer, why they don't go to church. Then once the problem is known the solution is in the fix. Let it all start at the House of God

Sort of got on a roll here, sorry, but as I said this is the Bible Board and different opinions are allowed, "I THINK"-----What I posted was just what ran through my mind as I was doing my morning thing and for whatever reason I felt like sharing.....

God Bless