Wealth Of The Nations

You don’t “visit” the church.

You become “part of” the church. The public’s perception of the church doesn’t really matter. There will always be those that disagree with the church and try to create false perceptions.

Even if the church was percieved correctly, you assume that people would convert?

The problem is not perception of the church–the problem is the resistant heart of an individual to humbly accept the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Which is swayed, convicted, pursuaded, not by man, but by the Holy Spirit. Anything else is highly humanistic and worldly wisdom.

To assume correct preception is to assume perfection. The church is not perfect, nor should be market it that way. We are not “new and improved”!

Most outsiders perceptions are probably in effect true, but simply don’t matter in the great picture.

We are called more to just influence the world, we are called to transform.