36,000 Non-Churches to Close October 12----That's GOOD News

36,000 churches to close next Sunday

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Oct. 6 /Christian Newswire/ -- As the worsening economy continues to make life difficult for families across the country, churches are putting their faith into action this Sunday, October 12th by doing something radical. This year, more than 300 churches nationwide will close their doors to help serve their neighbors in need. Some 36,000 Americans are now involved in this growing movement.

Three leading Christian organizations, World Vision, Outreach and Zondervan, are behind Faith in Action.

1.) Church is for believer's only and is mandated for believers to actively be committed to it. See Matt. 18, Acts, Heb. 10 & 13, 1Corinthians14, Ephesians 4:10-21,, 1 &2 Timothy and Titus, as well as the various letters to the local churches. The purpose of being in a local church is for the building up of each believers to a mature man in Christ, to be equipped to minister to others, for accountability, and to be solid in the faith so as to not be tossed by every wind of doctrine--for the glory of Jesus Christ.

2.) Social programs will not solve the most dire need of each living human: the preaching of the gospel. This must be preached with words, not lived by silence:

Rom 10:14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?

Rom 10:17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

3.) Many "churches" are nothing more than social clubs and as such, ought to be shut permenantly. We can do much better without these fake churches that perpetrate puddle-deep theology and socialistic politics merging with inter-faith garbage in the name of Jesus Christ.