Why is the Church so anemic?

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I was raised not to ask questions.  I was also raised to accept it if the Church says it.  Well, I am now grown and do not follow inane advice.  I live in El Paso, Texas.  For the last three years, I have looked for a good church harder than most folk look for  qualify mates.  The irony is this has never happened before.  In Omaha, I found a good church in three days.  In San Antonio and Lexington, I found a good church in one day.   The churches are so weak here; it's alarming.    I have never experienced anything like it.   Sometimes, I make myself stay at a given church only to starve spiritually.   I am at my wits end.


Can Anybody relate???  I am not talking to Joe Spiritual.

There is a far difference between a moderate service that is somewhat spiritual than one that is dryer than cracker juice.  I am not the only one that is having this problem.  Those who moved here from  other cities and States go through the same thing.

Whatever happened to the power of Christ or the Holy Spirit?  Why have we excused God right out of our services?   Why can I not get the the sanctuary for having to pass concession stands selling trinkets, food and the likes?  Why do the pastors only get excited  when it comes to building larger churches?  Does anyone cares about what the Holy Spirit wants?

Paul said that our services are not to be in word and deed only but in the demonstration of Power In The Holy Ghost.    I know this is a foreign concept, right?  I attended four bible institutions, so I know how to have the appearance of church.  With demons having their way now a day in the Church, why is the Church so anemic??   it does not surprise me, the devil or God when we hear of well known pastors being  gay or sleeping around with loose women.  I am not overtaken when I hear someone who is thought to be spiritual slaughtering his wife and two sons.  If the Church is asleep, so Satan has free reign.   THANK GOD FOR THE FEW CHURCHES IN THE USA WHO HAVE IT TOGETHER AND THAT OPERATES IN THE POWER OF GOD!!!

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

This is a direct result of most pastors being so afraid to stand up and speak the TRUTH, they would rather tickle peoples ears with what I call a "sugar/candy coated gospel". 
They are afraid that if they speak the truth people will not come back and allow him to have a huge salary from his mega-church.
People have been lied to from the pulpit for so long that they no longer fear God and think they can live however they want and still be saved.
Most people are in such a hurry to get out of church and resume their self centered lives that Holy Spirit is not given any time to move, and when He does move people reject it or say that is not how God moves. They put God in such a small box and if what He wants to do does not fit in that box, they say it is not God.

I guess it boils down to sin, the sin of pride mainly. We want things our way or not at all.

I long for the day when God breaks loose in the church here, I sure do miss revival.

Anonymous · Answer

I am a Judaic Christian and I have the same trouble. If they preach the fluff, then they become popular. No one loves the ugly truth. STUDY THIS: Jude

1. Jude, a servant of Yahshua the Messiah, and brother of James, and to them that are sanctified by Yahwah the Father, also called and saved by Yahshua the Messiah. 
2. May mercy, peace, and devotion, be multiplied to you. 
3. Loved, I was eager to write to you about the salvation we share, it was nessesary for me to write to you, and encourage you to earnestly contend for the faith that was given to the saints. 
4. Because you are unaware that certain men have sneeked in, who are of a ancient order to their condemnation, these ungodly men turn the grace of our God into immorality, and deny that the only God is Yahwah, or that our lord Yahshua is the Messiah. 
5. I will remined you although you once knew this, how Yahwah, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that did not believe. 
6. Those messengers did not keep their first estate, and they were removed from their place, and He has reserved for them everlasting chains of darkness for that great day of judgment. 
7. Just like Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in the same manner, they gave themselves over to fornication, and strange flesh. 
8. And they will suffer the vengeance of eternal fire, as a set example; As also along with these filthy dreamers who also defile their flesh. 
9. They say evil things about dignitaries and despise their dominion, they say evil things about what they know nothing about. 
10. But what they do know naturally like brute beasts; In those things they have corrupted themselves.

supertop · Answer

I was raised to ask questions.  
Many "churches" are nothing but social clubs.  The true church is acquainted with the power of the Holy Spirit.

2nd In Command to David · Answer

Most places are weak, because most churches teach works instead of grace, even as they claim to teach grace, they teach works.

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