The Biggest Issue with Church

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The deep dark skeleton in the church’s theoretical closet is its members. The church is imperfect and full of totally depraved people. The church faces many problems when it’s individual members fail to obeying our Lord’s commands. In Mark 12:30-31, Jesus tells his disciples, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength; and the second is this, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.” The biggest problem with the church is that we can not perfectly carry out these commands. Fortunately, God uses imperfect beings for His perfect will.
The church from it’s conception constantly fails loving the Lord with all it’s heart. The Israelites were always loving other idols. We, the church, fill our hearts with other things to love above God. David who loved God with his whole heart failed. In 1 Chronicles 28:3, “God said to [David]'You shall not build a house for My name because you are a man of war and have shed blood.' Yet, the LORD, the God of Israel, chose [David] from all the house of [his] father to be king over Israel forever.” Even though, David killed Uriah, Bathsheba’s husband and God punished him by not letting him be the one to build His temple, God loved and used David to establish His kingship. Even though the members of God’s kingdom fail, He still uses those of us, who are called to continue the kingdom..
The church falls short from loving the Lord with all their mind as they should. Many church members often forget that spending time with God is not reserved only for Sunday worship. We should be constantly be in communion with and be meditating on God and His word. God needs t...

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...nnot find salvation anywhere outside of God.
In conclusion, the biggest problem the church faces is the sinful nature of its members, who fail to keep His greatest commandments. The members and I do not love God and our neighbors as we should, and we fall short of the glory of God. However, there is hope for the church through Jesus. In Ephesians 4:11-12, the Bible tells us that “[God] gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, [spiritual gifts] to equip the saints for the work of ministry,[and] for building up the body of Christ.” He knows we are evil, but he loved and chosen to save us and equip us to build his kingdom. Ultimately the church’s biggest problem is that God has not completed the sanctification process in the members of her body. However, God is sovereign and in his perfect plan, he is perfecting her completely.

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