Have you heard anyone say, I love Jesus, but I don't have use for the church.

Here's how Nancy de Moss-Walcometh would respond.

Ladies, Christ loves the church.

He gave himself up for her, according to Ephesians 5.

You cannot love Christ and not love His church.

It's that simple.

Christ has revived our hearts with Nancy de Moss-Walcometh, co-author of C.D.

Kim.

For Tuesday, August 8th, I'm Diana Gresh.

A common idea going around a lot these days is this.

I love Jesus, but I'm just not interested in organized religion.

While in our study of the letters to the churches of Revelation, we'll take a hard look at

that ideology, Nancy's continuing in the series, a vision of the glorified Christ.

I receive in my email a daily religion report that talks about major news events or trends

in the religious world, both nationally and internationally, and it kind of helps me

keep abreast of what's going on in some areas that matter to me.

Increasingly, I'm seeing headlines in those reports like this one that said,

more Americans skipping church.

Here's what that, how he's read, the latest study by the Barna Group identifies a growing

trend for spiritual Americans to exercise their faith in places other than church.

And George Barnas said it would not be surprising if a larger portion of the born-again population

shifts, quote, from the church to the unchurched column of the ledger over the next 10 years.

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