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?


Revitalize: Biblical Keys to Helping Your Church Come Alive Again

What Are We Doing?

David Platt in his book Radical writes,

One of my good friends spent time recently among unreached and unengaged peoples in Southeast Asia. As he talked with villagers in one remote area, he tried to uncover their core beliefs. he asked them, "How were we created?"
They responded, "We don't know."
He asked, "Who sends the rain for the crops?"
They responded, "We don't know that either."
Then he asked, "What happens when we die?"
They looked back at him and said, "No one has come to tell us about that yet."

Soon thereafter he found himself in another remote village with people who had never heard the gospel. They were warm and hospitable, and they invited him to share a drink with them. One man went into his small shop and reappeared moments later with a classic red Coke can. Immediately, it hit home with my friend. A soft-drink company in Atlanta has done a better job getting brown sugar water to these people than the church of Jesus Christ has done in getting the gospel to them. (Radical, 158)