Prayer for my church

[Pam]

I belong to a very conservative independent fundamental Baptist church. Our church is going through something right now that has caused many families to leave. We just got into our new church building too. Seems like the enemy always attacks during a building program. We have been in it since June 2010. However, something happened at our old church which caused a lot of families to leave. It's a very delicate subject so I cannot voice it here so it will have to be an "unspoken". All I ask is that everyone might pray for my church. We are still losing members becaused of this issue. Things are bad right now and unless something happens, I'm afraid of what might happen down the road. It's at a point now where we, as a church body, need to stand and fight for our church and it's not going to be easy. Please be in prayer with me over this that God will have the victory and the glory in this mess.

[Brother Ben]

We will pray. It is sad when the church is under attack. It is also sad when churches become distracted from the "essentials" with things that, in the long run, are not good for the assembly.

I pastored a church once that was growing and happy in a small storefront. They got restless and just, "had" to get into a new building. It was their undoing. The former pastor resigned because they were behind and losing the building. That's when I took over, yikes.

I tried to rally them, hand the "new" building back over to the bond company, and move to a rented facility. By then, they had lost their heart.

We moved on. It was sad. Live and learn.

Church is an assembly of humble followers of the Lamb, even if it means get rid of EVERYTHING, and meet in the Park. Christ is all we need.

[michelle]

Will be praying for your church

[Tammy]

Praying for unity, truth, and love among the believers!

[Deleted]

Praying for you and your church. We had an issue a few years back that forced us to leave a church. It was hard and it hurt a lot of people. Churches splitting for anything other than a portion refusing to follow God's word is damaging to more than just the local church body. It's hard. We had a pastoral team (pastor and associate) that felt that the money from their old church should follow them where they went, then came in and were so very offensive speaking of committing crimes, making horrible jokes about police officers helping keep children safe, making nasty remarks about people that were trying so hard to lay their alcohol problem at God's feet and walk with Him in their new life. We had people get up each week and walk out, mid sermon.

We finally left and found a wonderful church body to worship with, but it hurt us. It's hard when people ask about our thoughts on that church as they consider attending. It's hard on a local church when people do things to split the body of Christ. That is not a fun place to be as a believer and I am praying peace over you guys and peace upon your church members to know the truth and know the path to take.

[Pam]

This was a case of a member's son who was molesting some of the young girls in our church. This father accused all of the little girls of lying and refuses to apologize to the church famililies. His son, who is only 19, is now serving 10 years in prison for this.
Because of all this, our Pastor took the side of this father and his family and we have lost all the families of the girls involved as well as members who believer our Pastor needs to address this issue. He hates confrontation. He is such a good Pastor otherwise - Godly, with a tender heart for his flock and for the lost. But in this situation, it's a case of not dealing with the sin and it's really causing problems. It has even causedf a lot of health issues for him. It is my prayer that God will bring him to the place of confronting this with not only the family involved, but with the church as a whole. This father is not at all remorseful or apologetic as he feels they have done nothing wrong. In essence, they didn't - their son did. However, he still needs to go to those families and apologize and admit that his son was guilty and apologize to the church. Please keep praying for us.