Please open your Bibles up to Romans chapter 12, Romans 12.

And we're really going to be reading starting in verse three and I see a potential

problem in our in our churches today and I see to myself as well and that's that we aren't really in the

habit of following the Bible when it comes to how we do church.

That we tend to be in the habit of doing church however we've done church for the last 20, 30,

50, 500 years, whatever it is, right?

We tend to just be doing church the way we've done church and not reflecting very deeply

upon the instructions in scripture for the church. church and so I include myself in

scripture for the church and this is led I think to a lot of issues in the church

and and so I include myself in this because we have we have a couple different things that I see nowadays.

We often have traditions, right?

Just I inherit the way I do church, everything about it from the order of service to how many times

a week you meet, to how long the service is, to how much of it is teaching,

is it worship, is it not, is it this, is it liturgy.

We tend to have church discipline issues and leadership, who we ask to do leadership, what we call that person,

this tends to come from tradition often rather than the text of the Bible.

Another side of things though is there's those who say tradition

shmaddition who cares and they sometimes will do church with gimmicks. So it's

about gimmicks and it's about kind of what works. I put that in quotes because if the goal of the

churches is to build the body of Christ, the numbers isn't the way you measure

this. So but they tend to go what works as in what creates a vybe large numbered

congregation but the important question we can ask is what does anybody know what the

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