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How to choose a GOOD church! 10 TIPS!

BibleThinker

Mike Winger

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2015

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Are you wondering how to evaluate which church to go to?Do you want BIBLICAL advice on how to select the best church in your area? Well, here it is! TEN QUESTIONS you should ask about any church before deciding which one is best for you List of Questions:1- What do they believe?2- How is the teaching?3- Does the worship glorify God?4- Does the children's ministry disciple or occupy?5- Do they follow Jesus?6- Do they outreach?7- Can you fellowship there?8- Are they weird?9- Can you serve there?10- Are they your best option?

Transcript

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0:00.0

So you're looking for a good church and you want biblical advice on how to pick the best one for you.

0:05.8

Well in this video I'm going to give you 10 questions that you should ask of every church you check out

0:11.4

before deciding which one you're going to commit to.

0:14.6

Now before I get into those ten questions to ask of every church you're looking at

0:21.6

let me just throw out a disclaimer of how not to pick a good church.

0:26.0

Please do not select a church based on how you feel the first time you go.

0:31.0

I know that I might be stepping on some toes here, but let me explain.

0:36.0

It's good advice to never, ever make life decisions based on feelings.

0:42.0

Jeremiah 17-9 tells us that the heart is deceitful and desperately wicked, and who can know it?

0:47.8

It's not even understandable.

0:49.9

Feelings are monumentally unreliable.

0:52.2

You know this, just look at your teenage years.

0:54.7

I mean can you imagine if we picked spouses this way, the feeling you get the first time you meet

0:59.3

them?

1:00.3

They're the one!

1:01.1

I would have been married and divorced several times by now if that was how I made my spouse decision.

1:05.7

Well the same thing with a church you're making a long-term commitment to a church so you need to

1:10.0

evaluate and compare and think and consider and yes there's some footwork but oh it is worth it

1:15.5

because you will probably be in this church for a very long time.

1:20.1

The first thing that you should ask a potential church is what do they believe?

1:25.0

It's pretty easy to discover a bad church to go to if their beliefs don't line up with the Bible.

1:31.5

Now not every Christian belief is an essential

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