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I definitely agree that tares are the issue. Wheat will work for the kidognm in one accord, or at least come to one accord eventually—misunderstandings are bound to happen on this side of eternity. Divisions with the pastor and within congregations usually come because of a lack of focus on the most importance thing, Jesus Christ.I’m very happy with my current church as the pastoral staff love getting behind their congregations’ ideas and running with them, offering suggestions and corrections along the way, empowering the people of God rather than ruling them. It’s very refreshing to have that kind of environment.
Think about it like this. The Church (big C), is the body of Christ, right? The Church gathering or comnmuity should reflect Christ in a way that is greater than any one person (body part) can. Jesus embodied that on his own, he was definitely attractional because people were attracted to him, they invited their friends to meet him (see Philip & Nathanael). He lived among the people AND he attracted them as crowds ..it was pretty much unavoidable because of who he was and what he had done.The Church, as the body of Christ, should be the same. We should live among people, and be attractive to them. When we gather, people should be attracted to that and should experience Christ in a powerful way. That gathering could be a small group or a worship service, or something else that’s where the cultural/method part comes in. I think it’s always both/and, the problem is people ASSUME an attractional church doesn’t personally invest in people and that’s just ridiculous. I don’t know of a single, healthy, attractional church that doesn’t have the majority of it’s new people coming from personal connections (also known as missional )I know this will hit hard, but I see a lot of people label healthy churches attractional because they’re effective and people are coming to Christ through them and sometimes there is jealousy or envy in play.If there are churches who teach their members NOT to invest in people’s lives, and NOT to share the gospel personally, and only expect unchurched people to show up without invites, then yes, that would be bad. I just don’t know of any. I guarantee if there are any, they won’t last long.I know of some who get labeled as such, but that’s by people who don’t attend there and really don’t know. They assume.