 why people aren't going to church is a mess and I don't mean just the true church because we have no real way of knowing what the true church is and what the false church is there is a difference between those who are true converts and those who are false converts those who are led by a true pastor a true man of God versus those who are just there for their own glory seeking their own fame so we're not limited to the to the bible but god wants to bring more god wants to bring meat god wants to bring mysteries we have seen some outlandish things in the church from ridiculous Easter services to just as ridiculous Christmas services people who want to turn the church into a stage for either video games there it is here we go here we go here we go guys come on or to replicate the movies hi bo peep good to see you are you at church i want to look at three people i want to look at the people who are making the church out to be a circus a place for spectators where the spectacular shows are put on secondly i want to address the people who call them out who make it known who warned the flock about these people and in third i want to say to the people who say to the second group we should just pray for them don't talk about them don't judge them let god handle it so the question is why don't people go to church it's not a mystery it's a fact that church attendance is dropping as a matter of fact it is dropping at unprecedented levels we've never seen at least in the industrialized west we've never seen church attendance this low so why is that why are people who grew up in christian homes why are the children of those kids why are their children's and their children's children why are they not going to church why do they even want to present church and christ a different way what is going on here and more to the point who's at fault let's be clear because i believe we ought to be as transparent as accurate and as real as we can possibly even if being real hurt someone's opinions hurt someone's feelings the church has been invaded by clowns the church has been invaded by imposters the church has been run by wolves it is time now for your deliverance and your family's deliverance i break every generational curse every spirit of mental illness i declare on three all must leave him in jesus name as a matter of fact we have a lot of people who not only don't care about wolves infiltrating the church but promote the wolves as a matter of fact if you act as a good shepherd or a good watchman they will attack you for calling out the wolves who are attacking the flock we have people that do really silly and goofy things scandals aside a person like td jakes swallowed up have you ever been swallowed up have you gone through a time of swallowing where everything was overwhelming and not just him just his entire family the whole family is involved in keeping this empire of theirs going with just foolishness and unbiblical behavior and teachings i so annoyed you through it i'm in birthing position i'm trying to get ready for something to come out of me but i gotta push this thing out anyway another bishop just as awful is william murphy the former gospel singer maybe still current gospel singer i'm not sure but clearly he's more interested in entertaining people than actually bringing the scriptures he wants to keep culture make the culture that we have the sinful culture he wants to keep that for christ that cannot be can it Simon of our church uh brad is to reclaim culture for the cause of christ yes we can't let the devil have swag and serve that's right we can't let the devil have walk it out obviously the two should be separated but not not with him he tries to mesh the world especially secular music with the church god but god she got a big button to even to bring in these black fraternities and sororities in this church in a way that is just clearly god awful people like him represent kind of the newer heretics the newer rules but there have been those that have been around for a long time who have been doing some of the same things either in the past but also even currently and then i would do the same now we've mixed our blood which is his knowledge is mine people like Kenneth Copeland are obviously rules and false teachers but also false prophets clearly his prophecy and his controller command over covid um showed him to be false just like we've already known but he's not the only one we've got people that will claim to have power that god hadn't given them powers that we ought to bow down and worship them treat them as as treat them as though they are somebody special so i started to realize i'm the pope chosen by god to hold the highest rank out of all preachers in the world everybody wants to create everybody wants to clear everybody wants to name everybody wants to claim something and they name and claim only good things positive things about to be making a hundred thousand a month listen i speak a five thousand dollar per day anointing on your life they never speak about bad things there's always a prophecy the lord is going to do this this and this but they never actually named the specific things and they never actually prophesied something that we know god is in control of such as the weather they never prophesied that god is going to send a tornado a hurricane a tsunami they never prophesied that and obviously it's not just the men and do we have the women that do it as well 21 people in this building that god said we'll give a thousand dollars but i'm gonna give you this handkerchief out of my prayer room and if your breakthrough don't come you can call me but the question is who's to blame because we're not talking about the people in the church we're talking about the people outside the church who we want to get to come into the church who we want to become part of the body well let's look at the real reason why people don't come to church and i might shock you with this clearly the gospel is open to any and everyone now obviously any and everyone won't accept the gospel won't place their faith but we used to at least have more people that were at least friendly to it and would show up even though we knew that a large portion of the people that actually went to church weren't actually safe but at least they were there at least the opportunity for them to place their faith in Christ the opportunity for them to be part of the family is there but no not anymore not like it used to be Jesus makes a statement or paul makes a statement in romans he says but as for israel he says all day long i have stretched my hands out to disobedient or obstinate people that's the world that's the world that we live in and so the invitation is there but people will not come why won't they come is the question we see people being turned off by some of these actions some of these histrionics some of these crazy things that we're seeing and folks are being turned off but there is one segment of society or i should say one gender that seems to be a little bit slower at least compared to men when it comes to recognizing things this is what the bible says he says in 2nd Timothy 3 6 he says for among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women or silly women some verses may say weighed down with sins led on by various impulses obviously god has created women a certain way and men a certain way we get that there are different there are differences between men and women and one of the things that the enemy and now these wolves want to take advantage of are the different weaknesses or the areas that are vulnerable for women did i call her out did she call my herself all right so you need to lose weight find a good bra things that deal with sin things that deal with their impulsive things deal with their wants and so forth now the same is there for men as well i don't want i don't want to be misunderstood the thing that men don't also have their weaknesses as well they do but we see in a majority of the churches that women are the larger number of people and this gets to why people are not coming before we do let's look at why they are coming and in many cases they're coming for the wrong reasons jesus makes a statement in john 626 he says jesus answered them truly truly i said you seek me not because you saw signs but because you ate of the loaves and were filled notice what he says do not work for the food which perishes but for the food which endures to eternal life people would come to him there were two reasons in in the in the new testament why people came to christ one they were looking for a sign they saw the signs but now here we've got jesus addressing the people who it wasn't for the signs they came but because they he fed them they were filled and so those are two reasons why we see some people come to church but also the same two reasons why we see people not coming to church god is very protective of his name and his church as a matter of fact even in the old testament how he treated the jews for profaning his name look what he says in he's he could 3619 he says also i have scattered them these are his people among the nations and they were dispersed throughout the lands according to their ways and their deeds i judged them when they came to the nations they where they went they profaned my holy name because it was said of them these are the people of the lord yet they have come out of his land but i had concern on my holy name which the house of israel had profaned among the nations there they went now he's going to make them a proverb and a byword why because of their sin because they defiled his name they profaned his name before the people he's going to bring them back and that won't be those people that he brings back but of that nation you will the same thing is happening here we have defiled or profaned the name of christ before the people and they see that church was always considered whether they agreed with it or not whether you even had a different religious take whether you were muslim hindu buddhists even atheists you thought the church was at least a respected institution not so much today and so people see that and they don't want to be a part of that they don't want to be a part of something that looks just like the world or in some cases worse than the world that's a problem and there are those who call it out and then the issue is well wait a second maybe this is the reason why people don't come because they see people fighting too much fighting that's the reason why folks don't want to come to church a job not to judge people it is our job to have discernment i'm sick of people trying to tell me what i shouldn't be doing however we've got a problem with that because paul says do not participate in the unfruitful needs of darkness but instead expose them for his disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret but in all but all things become visible when they are exposed by the light and so we are commanded to expose these things we are commanded as paul says to reprove to rebuke that's the word that folks don't like but we're called to review and to exhort and to do it how with all all long suffering constantly over and over as jude says to contend for the faith because these unscrupulous people have crept in unnoticed meaning they look like christians they look like preachers they look like pastors they look like praise and worship singers but what are they they're actually wolves they're they are wolves in sheep's clothing and so we are to call them out but there will be some that will say there's too much fighting and the reason why people don't come to church is because of the fighting well again let me say this they're not coming to church because they are seeing the foolishness they are not avoiding church because of the foolishness the circus all of the the plays the acting all the worldly things that's not why they're coming to church that it's a problem though but also they're not coming to church because people are fighting people are calling the stuff out there's infighting there's frictions that's also not the reason why they're not coming now before i get to the real reason why they're not coming i need to also address the third group the people who would call out the people for calling out the people paul makes a statement in first Corinthians five remember there's there's a man there who is sleeping with his father's wife and they're not doing anything about it maybe they're just praying about it let god deal with it but look what paul says paul says you have become arrogant and have not mourned instead so the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst paul is bothered there's a statement's going on they know it's wrong but no one wants to do anything about it why and and in doing so they're arrogant they think that they're better more noble for not doing anything paul says no you're wrong put him out deal with this stuff and so one could say the reason why people don't come to church is because people get upset with those who are trying to protect the body people get upset because you're you're going against the people that are entrusted with defending it's almost like you have a problem with the people that are entrusted with keeping the country safe or the security guard or the police officer officer from protecting the the innocent people you have a problem with them you want to protect the criminal is that a reason why people don't come to church well the only person in that group that is doing the right thing is the person that calls out the sin calls out the shenanigans now can we do it in the wrong way sure you do not want to only go after the bad and never promote the gospel our job first and foremost is to promote the gospel but it's not to also do so at the detriment of the body by letting unthink unseen things or things that we know of that will hurt the body it's not good to let that go by either i would explain god as the creator a heavenly father of someone that wants to be in relationship with you just um as somebody that's for you as a friend a doctor will tell you the good things to do the good exercises things to eat and so forth but also the we will warn you of the things you should stay away from what you should not do similarly us as a body we are commanded to do both to promote christ and to build up the body while at the same time to warn and protect the flock so with all that being said what is the reason why people don't come to church well it's not even as bad as the foolishness that we see in the church even as bad as that is that's not the reason even as bad as some folks might make out to be those that call out sin that's not it christians fighting other christians that's not the reason why remember muslims fight other muslims as a matter of fact muslims blow up other muslims same problem with violence with hindus we've got everyone in every other faith group also religious group that does the same thing ours just happens to be righteous if we are defending the faith but even that's not the reason why people don't come to church no matter how many times the person might say see that's why i don't go to church you christians are hypocrites you christians are always fighting you christians are this you christians are that that's not why they don't go to church the reason why they don't go to church is because you're not his sheep jesus makes this point clear he says but you do not believe because you are my sheep and so no matter what you do there's some folks no matter what happens how great the church could be or how bad it could be they're not coming why because they hate him and because they hate him they're going to treat you the same way jesus says if the world hates you you know that it hated me before it hated you so if they're going to act a certain way remember they crucified christ what do you think they're going to do with you how do you think they're going to feel about you even the church now do we give them reasons added reasons do we give them ammunition sure we do do we help to profane the name yes we do god does not want his name profane the reason why you put people out of church for a couple reasons one that the name of christ would not be selling two so the body would be protected from any infestation of sin remember a little leaven leavens the whole lump and then three so that person's soul would be ravaged and then come to christ hopefully so what should we do one preach the gospel promote christ preach holiness call those who are in the body to grow those who are not in the body invite them show them the light jesus says let your light shine before men before the world that they will see your good works and then glorify god not this foolishness so people need to see you and what god does is he takes that and uses that to promote the gospel you can't on your own make a person get saved you can't on your own make a person do anything that he doesn't want to but god will use what you are doing to promote him that's why paul says that finally there's a crime later for me notice paul makes a statement as he's going to die but he's also calling out sin but he's also as well calling out or promoting the gospel that's what we should do and in doing that that would be a reason why people will end up coming to church because god will use that to prick someone's heart ultimately though it's him one plant one waters but it's god that gives the increase but let's get away from saying why someone comes to church or doesn't come to church if it's not scriptural the reason why they don't come is because they don't want to come and why don't they want to come because they have not embraced the gospel god will use us to help them but ultimately it's him amen