Valentine’s Day: Do you feel forgotten and unloved?

Oh Valentine’s Day, but I feel forgotten and unloved.

Everyone is buying flowers and chocolates for someone special, but you feel lonely and left out. No boyfriend or girlfriend. Maybe your spouse pays little attention to you, or your loved ones live far away.

No human can fully satisfy the need to feel loved. Only God can fill that void. You are His child and He loved you so much that He sent His own Son, Jesus Christ, to die for you so you can have eternal life with Him. He longs for a relationship with you and promises never to leave your side if you trust in Him.

With God, we are complete. The Bible says He calls us friends and knows us by name. Invite Him into your heart and experience a truly fulfilling relationship.

Find Love In God

Produced Church?

"May I take your order?"
"Yes, I'd like a religious experience, please, with extra feelings, but no absolute doctrine."
"Alright.  That'll be one emotional trip, stripped.  Would you like anything else with that?
"Uh, well, yes, can I have a side of candles, non judgmentalism, and some theological deconstruction?"
"Alright, so you want a light, free, decon.  Is that all?"
"Yeah."
"Alright, that..."
"No wait, I just remembered.  Can I have a truth slushy?  I want it really slushy!
"Very good, that'll cost you biblical truth and eternal life at the window."
"Okay, thanks."                (http://carm.org/emerging-church)

This is a "Produced Church", it's "Contemporvant". Chronological snobbery says "because it's old it's no good". Bob Coy shares how when it comes to church, traditions shouldn't be tossed out just because it's "old".

GOOD within the movement	BAD within the movement
Contextualize the Gospel	Watering down the Gospel
Speak the cultural language	Use culture to dominate the message
Different media of expression and focus	Media used in unbiblical ways
Provides absolutes in a non absolute world	Absolutes of doctrine are optional
Focused attempt to reach the lost	Reaching the lost trumps truth statements

                (http://carm.org/emerging-church)

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Seek and save that which is lost and press on in Love,
Tim Molter, bondservant of Jesus