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Or maybe your church doesn’t even have preaching anymore.
Many churches seeking to be relevant have squeezed out preaching for
repetitious choruses, dramas, even dancing and banner waving. Is
cheerleading next?
And then there is the band – sometimes even a rock band – all in the
name of “worship” and “ministry.”
Have you ever been in a service where you thought they would never get
to the message? Maybe they never did.
Have you ever thought if I want to be entertained I can turn on the TV
or CD?
Have you ever felt uncomfortable with all this?
Have you ever been afraid to say anything for fear of being called
old-fashioned or behind the times? Or maybe you have already been
called that.
Would you just like to be in a worship service sometime where prayer,
reading of Scripture, hymns with great content, preaching from the
Scriptures, a sense of reverence for the Lord are the norm?
We at Reibers Reformed Baptist Church believe there are serious-minded
Christians scattered here and there who long for something more
substantial in worship.
We live in an age where even the word “preach” is despised.
We want dialog or discussion not preaching, but though there may be a
place for these it is not in the worship service.
If you read the book of Acts you will see that the preaching of the
word was the means God used to raise up churches, beginning in Judea,
Jerusalem, Samaria and all over that part of the world.
What brought about the great Protestant Reformation in Europe? What
did God use in the 1st and 2nd great awakenings
in America? Preaching.
Peter, Paul, Luther, Calvin, Knox, Edwards, Whitefield, Wesley,
Nettleton, Spurgeon – some were also great writers, but primarily they
were preachers and whole nations and continents shook under their
preaching and faith still comes by hearing the word of God in Christ
(Romans 10:17).
Our desire at Reibers RBC is that our church and every gospel church
would get back to the faithful preaching of God’s word in every
service and that God’s people be fed and built up in faith hope and
love and that those who are not now Christians would hear and believe
the gospel of Christ.
We invite you to come and worship the Lord with us.
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