From a Dying Church to a Church Willing to Die for Christ

 As you read this pointed quote by Andrew Davis, please consider your own life.

Dying churches have gotten to the sad state they are in because they selfishly loved their lives in this world and refused to take up their cross daily and follow Christ. They have become inwardly focused; they spend their money on themselves and their own comforts; they rarely invite people to church; they stopped looking for ways to engage the community and to serve its needs for the sake of the gospel. They have forgotten what Jesus taught; 'Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit' (John 12:24). As German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer put it, 'When Jesus calls a man, he bids him, 'Come and die!'"

I truly believe God has great things in store for Meadowview, but only when we selflessly give ourselves to His work. Meadowview will you come and die with me for the sake of Christ and His church?


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