Hush hush issues
We are launching a new website at Impact Church and we try to do our homework. I have visited a lot of church websites in the past weeks and I started to notice something.
Most churches have a doctrinal statement of sorts, we do too. Some churches also add a list of ‘issues‘ that they want to be clear about. I think the thought here is that some of these issues are gray areas and they wanted to clarify.
For the most part there were a couple of common themes; abortion, homosexuality, divorce among others, speaking in tongues.
This is cool. I think it’s fine to state what you believe as a church on your website.
After seeing several pages like this, I started to think that their were some issues missing; War, poverty, obesity, capital punishment.
I won’t pretend to know the answer to these, but I would like to feel safe talking about stuff. Especially amoung Christian brothers and sisters.
well an obvious one would be alcohol i suppose.
birth control might be another.
also, that specific local churches stance on how much a local church should or should not be involved in the political/government process.
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politics. that could get ugly.
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ha ha, i mean not specifics like who do they recommend you vote for or anything or what party does the pastor align himself with (some churches would love to have that and some already do i’m sure of it). for example if it were my church’s website we would say something like:
“blankety blank church does not endorse any candidate or party and advises its members to prayerfully consider how they will partake (if at all) in the process which is the American government.”
something like that except probably written a bit more coherently ha ha.
this may not be as much an issue in CA but here in the south many pastors try to use their church as a political force, which is not biblical whatsoever. (rant over ha ha)
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I Ddon’t quite know how to phrase it…but spending habits/consumerism/debt/over-loaning.
I think this selfish attitude of gratuitous pleasure through horrendously immoral loan taking and lending needs to be addressed. Credit cards (high interest loan cards) spending more than we make, not saving…even the spirituality of work. Work is viewed as a means to an end, not as a mimicking of God’s creative work that should be a sweet sacrifice.
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Vince Reply:
March 17th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
that's a big one dude. We totally ignore that. Maybe it's because a lot of churches are in debt too?
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I thought of that…it's kind of a silly idea to me that a church should need a mortgage. Not too "Acts Church" sounding.
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On our website, I warn that men taller than me cannot attend. My wife also wants me to put on that any women with breast enhancements that cause them back problems or men to have neck problems from snapping it around cannot join the church. I will defer to wisdom on this.
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@mike I guess i can’t come.
The breast enhancement is a problem around SoCal
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