http://www.greatcommissionkentucky.com/2010/07/overcoming-the-big-disconnect/ Kentucky Baptists cooperating together to fulfill the Great Commission Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:03:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.greatcommissionkentucky.com/2010/07/overcoming-the-big-disconnect/comment-page-1/#comment-672 Sonny Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:27:48 +0000 http://www.greatcommissionkentucky.com/?p=3053#comment-672 My wife and I are in our 60’s now and have done personal bible study for over 40 years because there is a famine of serious theology and discipleship in the church. We’ve attended pentacostal and SBC churches over the years. We have been in a SBC church for the last 10 or so years. We now drive 16 miles to a PCA church and the difference is dramatic. It’s well worth the drive. These people are serious about the Bible. I am meeting people who know more about the Bible than I ever thought of knowing. If I am any indication, SBC is in trouble. If people rise up and get the courage to leave family and church friends and go find a church that is truly fufilling the Great Commission then your numbers will start dwindling. I know it’s hard to leave a church where you have attended for years and have many good friends. I miss them but don’t worry, I’m not proselytizing. If they ask, which only one friend has, I will tell them why. No one else including the pastor has bothered to contact us. And this was a SBC church!! I have never had the call to teach or I would have. It is a calling you know. And I have been ask several times to teach because of my comments in Sunday school during our time in an SBC church. I do have a calling to be a serious student of the Word. We now are surrounded by people with that same calling. Every Sunday we hear excellent teaching and expository preaching. And these people are not puffed up with their knowledge. They are very sweet and humble and I will add very friendly people. The Pastor has us in a prospective members class which is something we’ve never experienced anywhere else. My wife and I are in our 60’s now and have done personal bible study for over 40 years because there is a famine of serious theology and discipleship in the church. We’ve attended pentacostal and SBC churches over the years. We have been in a SBC church for the last 10 or so years. We now drive 16 miles to a PCA church and the difference is dramatic. It’s well worth the drive. These people are serious about the Bible. I am meeting people who know more about the Bible than I ever thought of knowing.
If I am any indication, SBC is in trouble. If people rise up and get the courage to leave family and church friends and go find a church that is truly fufilling the Great Commission then your numbers will start dwindling.
I know it’s hard to leave a church where you have attended for years and have many good friends. I miss them but don’t worry, I’m not proselytizing. If they ask, which only one friend has, I will tell them why.
No one else including the pastor has bothered to contact us. And this was a SBC church!! I have never had the call to teach or I would have. It is a calling you know. And I have been ask several times to teach because of my comments in Sunday school during our time in an SBC church. I do have a calling to be a serious student of the Word. We now are surrounded by people with that same calling. Every Sunday we hear excellent teaching and expository preaching. And these people are not puffed up with their knowledge. They are very sweet and humble and I will add very friendly people. The Pastor has us in a prospective members class which is something we’ve never experienced anywhere else.

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