- Listen to the Scripture being taught, but don't obey the teaching
- Show irritation when an important point lengthens the sermon five or ten minutes beyond is usual length.
- Start a gossip chain.
- Always expect other members to do the work that needs to be done.
- Consistently show up to the church services five or ten minutes late.
- Tell your pastors that the nursery is not your responsibility.
- Be mildly negative about most leadership decisions.
- Go to the lake on summer Sundays rather than to church.
- Start a church project but let it die by your lack of perseverance.
- Regularly fall asleep during the sermon because your Saturday nights are taken by late activities.
- Talk frequently about the weaknesses of the church.
- Automatically assume your pastors' motives are questionable.
-Taken from Life in the Body of Christ by Curtis C. Thomas.
3 comments:
How about ways to hinder your church:
1. Show up only when it is convenient.
2. When you do attend, show up late and leave as soon as possible.
3. Find something to grumble about (music, preaching, people).
4. Whenever your pastor or teacher makes a mistake in his theology make sure everyone realizes it, but be sure not to talk about it with him.
5. Never appear interested.
6. Refuse to accept any responsibility.
7. Do not spend time in prayer for your church and pastor.
8. Realize that you know more than the leaders in your church, but do not be willing to use that knowledge to teach others.
9. Be more concerned with position and privilege than the advancement of Christ’s kingdom.
10. Above all else, realize that Church is about you and what you get out of it.
How about ways to discourage God? Isn't that more important than discouraging your pastor?
Great list...but what's your motive in posting it? Hmmmm....Haha
Love ya, bro! - Press on!
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