One of the best choices I’ve made was to go to a Bible believing church. But a church isn’t what makes you a follower of God. The preacher should teach us how to follow God. And what the Bible teaches.
Many people sit in church week after week without hearing the gospel or learning what it means to be born again. Or without being told they need to read their Bible. They think they can get to heaven by pitting in their time at a church.
The church building is not the church, but those who follow Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
Jesus established the church for the purpose of fellowship and instruction on how to live in obedience to God and His Word. The Lord didn’t design the church to cater to people’s needs, establish community programs or blend into the community by embracing worldly practices. When it does it infiltrates the church.
Jude 1:4 warns of this,
“For certain (people) have crept in unnoticed, who turn the grace of God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.”
God breathed life into the church to proclaim His truth. The church should never seek pleasures, but seek after God. The church should be a place to get spiritual food so that the inner person is fed, nourished, and developed into maturity. If it fails to do this, it’s not a church, it doesn’t fulfill the purpose of the church.
I have been to many churches in my life that we’re not Bible-based and there’s a not a peace that goes with these churches. The church I am at now I have been with 17 years, and when I entered I still have an overwhelming inner peace.
From Pity to Praise 