Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five day a week daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, and our heart.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

It's Friday, and the fun Friday five, five random things, usually some kind of list, to break it up from the week of inspiration, we're used to doing around here.

You guys love the Friday 5, by the way, so that's why I keep doing them. Did you know there's some of our highest ranking shows? Yep, true story. This week, as we wrap up our church questions week,

we're going to take a look at five reasons church might not be working for you right now.

I thought it might be helpful to drill down on some of the roadblocks

or potential reasons as to why you aren't getting plugged in or feeling apart, and maybe that

will help kickstart some change. Sound good? Let's do it. So five reasons church might not be

working for you right now. Number one, you might be in the wrong

place. You know, I'm not a huge proponent of church changing since I think too often we bail and

take our problems with us, if you know what I mean. But I do believe that a church sometimes

meets our needs for a certain season and then then in a different season, doesn't anymore.

When the church were little, it was the right church for us because of maybe the programs

it had, it had some great community there with other parents of children that age, but now

maybe the children are grown up, it's not the best fit anymore. Things happen like that.

Sometimes we do need change. Sometimes we are in the wrong place for us,

and we need to be willing to break tradition, even if we've gone there for a long time,

our parents have gone there, whatever it is. We need to be able to let the past go so we can

be where we need to be to grow and thrive. Doesn't mean that it wasn't great for us at one point,

just means it's no longer working now. Number two, you may have a negative spirit. Now, I know

that's hard to hear and hard to take in, but if we really want to drill down on why a church might

not be working for us, we have to consider this. Maybe it's a negative spirit towards church in general. Maybe it's towards leadership or this particular leadership in this church.

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