A couple of years ago, I read an article in Christanity Today magazine at my college library called "Saved by an Atheist" by Rob Moll. I really liked what I read and copied down quotes that I felt had to be remembered. That I felt had to be shared with other Christians. I felt reasons like these were what may have caused less people to attend church in the U.S.
The author Rob Moll, was a Christian, left Christianity for a while, and met an atheist, whose reasoning and words had Moll thinking, and eventually became a Christian again.
Do you think a lot of Churches haven't done what they should have been doing and cause people to turn away from church and Jesus?
Read the entire article here:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2010/august/28.40.html?start=1
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Thanks guys. :)
I think most churches have failed to show people Christ, but I do not think any churches have permanently caused people to turn away from Christ. Those rooted in Christ stay rooted to Christ for eternity. For "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand." And any who leave Christ and the Christian church may go out from us "but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us." Those who have "fully accepted the faith" will not leave it because His grace and love are irresistible to those who have been born again in a new nature that inclines itself in all ways to God.