I agree with you 100% I think it does need to die. And I also agree and have been proclaiming for a good while now that the “True Chuch” is going to return to “close initmate fellowships that gathered as when Paul and Silas planted churches in Asia, Macedonia and Greece”

But I still think there are many many good people in The “dying church” who feel in their gut that the Church as we know it today is dying they just cant bring themselves to let it die.

I pray for them that they will come out before it is too late.

God Bless,

John

You said: “It is sad to say but the Western Church as we know it today is in its death throws. And what is even sadder is it doesn’t even recognize that fact.”

It is sad, but perhaps we need to let what is dying go ahead and die. God is in the middle of this that is for sure. When you go to church and 99% of what goes on there is POP CULTURE and only a small group are interested in really digging into Word and obeying it then what is going on there needs to change. Where is the sense of awe at what God has done and is doing? The reason that isn’t there is that they don’t hear it from their teachers and preachers as you said. When everything is about felt needs then the power of the Word of God is diluted. I believe God is tearing down what needst to be torn down. The answer is obviously not the Emergent Church or the many other counterfeits out there, but a return to the close initmate fellowships that gathered as when Paul and Silas planted churches in Asia, Macedonia and Greece. Churches are businesses nor do they need a tax exempt status, etc. They simply need to be oasis of truth in a sea of lies that are dedicated to obedience to God in all things.

In Christ

Mike Ratliff