{"id":1896,"date":"2013-12-22T14:52:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T20:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:20:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:20:44","slug":"the-churches-response-to-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1896","title":{"rendered":"The Churches Response To Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. Churches are central to God&#8217;s plan for redemption. God&#8217;s plan for the church has not changed, nor will it change.<br \/>\n2. Conditions under within the Church must work are changing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I: Certainty of Change:<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. Not everything changes.<br \/>\n2. Man&#8217;s nature never changes, except by the grace of God.<br \/>\n3. Man dies and that does not change.<br \/>\n4. Man must meet God and give an account of things done in the flesh.<br \/>\n5. Change alters the less important. Seldom does change alter the basic human needs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>II: Church Changes In Structure:<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. The gospel message does not change, but our method of presentation must keep up with change.<br \/>\n<strong>a. <\/strong>Here we are to often hampered with tradition.<br \/>\n<strong>b. <\/strong>We have always done it this way.<br \/>\n2. A church must be true to its basic nature, but that nature must be expressed to every generation in terms it can understand.<br \/>\nThe churches of Acts breathed life into a dead person by using new methods:<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: We Must See &amp; Meet the Changes.<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. The 70&#8217;s will bring population changes that the church has not faced in 2,000 yrs.<br \/>\n2. The long weekend will challenge the church.<br \/>\n3. Race, slums, pageniem, morals, etc&#8230;<br \/>\n4. The church should not be frustrated, but challenged.<br \/>\n5. The greatest problem a church confronts is that of converting its faith into action!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Churches are central to God&#8217;s plan for redemption. God&#8217;s plan for the church has not changed, nor will it change. 2. Conditions under within the Church must work are changing. I: Certainty of Change: 1. Not everything changes. 2. Man&#8217;s nature never changes, except by the grace of God. 3. Man dies and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1897,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions\/1897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}