What is the most difficult question facing the church today? Both Christians and non-Christians are welcome to respond, but please tell me whether you are Christian or not.
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people not being able to worship god in work places, schools, etc. i mean, a soda company put the pledge on their box, but didnt put the word god in there. give me a break...
it's just getting rediculous now...
KeAhi
I am a Christian and I believe that the most difficult question facing the church today is homosexuality. I have friends and a few extended family members who are gay and I love them very much and I am sure I am not the only christian in this situation. I accept them for who they are but being raised a christian my whole life I was always taught that the gay lifestyle can never be accepted by God. So I guess I am a hypocrite because I don't follow what I was taught my whole life, But love is suppose to be a good thing....right? Well I guess the church will have to answer this question one day..... Is it also wrong for a heterosexual person to love some one as a brother or sister who happens to be gay?
ontario ashley
I am an atheist but here's what I think:
The most difficult question the church must address is
1. How to incorporate the bible's rules and morals into your daily life in modern times - for example - living with your partner before marriage, multiple sex partners, accepting homosexuality as OK, etc. Times are changing and if the church strictly shuns these activities, they push young people away from the church and religion.
2. Combining your beliefs with science - the question is, does the church continue to push the biblical stuff about earth being created 6000 years ago? Or do they relax the 'rules' to allow some modern evidence and discoveries to be incorporated into their beliefs? I think sticking strictly to the biblical interpretation, again, pushes away alot of individuals.
just common sense
I'm Christian. I think the most difficult question the Church must face today is how to take God out of a box (the physical churches) and focus on the Church being the body of Christ (the believers) and not the building. The churches and their members have become such judgmental people, clique-ish people.
If they can manage to take God out of the box and walk what they talk and not just be pious while in the box, there would be a higher likelihood that we could reinstate prayer in public places. But these overly pious, judgmental people are not going to get anything done sitting in pews every Sunday, looking down their noses at newcomers and those who haven't dressed like the lead clique.
If we want God put back in America, the pew-sitters are going to have to get up and DO something. All those who want God and prayer out of public places have DONE something to achieve it. What has the Church done?
Did Jesus sit down to eat with sinners? Did He judge?
The other most difficult question facing the Church today is how to understand the Pagans (not Satanists!! Pagans) ~ enormous difference) and why more and more people are leaning toward Paganism. They need to learn why the church-boxes and those who sit in them have made it easier to become a Pagan.
Anonymous
The most difficult question the churches/religions face is why they lose thier congregations. The answer is that they still teach man made religion which has become stagnant and stale. The only churches in america that are growing are the touchy-feel good/health-welath nonsense religions. Until the religinos are removed and preachers start telling the truth, it will always be this way. Religion is a cancer on christianity.