The Church is Full of Babies!

Hey everyone! As you may know, my name is Tracy McCann, and starting next week, I will be a freshman at Crowley's Ridge College in Paragould, Arkansas. I will be a bible major. I have been in the ministry for 5 years now, that would be since I was 12 years old, when I delivered my first sermon about Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to the Redfield Church of Christ congregation. I wanted to create a blog to keep in touch with those I will be missing (and hopefully missing me) while I'm away at school. I pray that my thoughts stay pure and holy, and that the Spirit gives me the words to say online, so God bless you all. 

I am naming my whole blog from the title of my first post, "The Church is Full of Babies!". I get my wording from the New Testament in 1 Corinthians 3:2 also Hebrews 5:12. I'm gonna focus on the Hebrews scripture. Look at verses 11 through 14 for the appropriate context. In this time, it's not that they didn't understand, it's that they didn't WANT to understand. Tell me that, church. If you don't want to understand God, why would you follow Him? Why would you follow something you don't want to work for? Our problem today in the church is we follow that feel-good gospel and rob Jesus of his miracles, while we neglect him when we feeling good. In the 1 Corinthians scripture, they are being called babies because of their division. HOW CAN THE CHURCH OF CHRIST READ VERSES ABOUT UNITY AMD STILL DENY THEM? Talk about some babies. Let me tell you, I drew a circle around my church building on a map, and each side of the circle marks a point 30 minutes away from our church, Southside Church of Christ. OVER 40 CHURCH OF CHRIST CONGREGATIONS, just in that circle.  Talk about division, and talk about some babies. We can't even get together because we're too busy crying about what we don't like about them down the road. "We don't like them because they keep their building warm enough" "We don't like them because their preacher preaches 45 minutes" If you would stop worrying about your own agenda, and what your brother or sister may be doing, you may be able to eat solid food, but you're too busy whining about a part of the church that doesn't need work. Whine about yourself. You could be learning about the bible while you're busy whining about your brother taking too long to pass the communion tray. 

To put this into a conclusion instead of nagging, where's God in your church? Does He make all your decisions? Do you have a leadership that doesn't listen to God? If not, you might as well set fire to your building and go somewhere else, because God won't put up with that. He didn't with the Israelites, and he SURE ain't gonna put up with your stuff. If your church of Christ is really a church of Self, can you really call yourself a Christian? God wants to give you meat and potatoes, but we must grow past some enfamil. Not every congregation is meant to be in one building, but at least fellowship with other congregations. That's what the Lord says, not me. God bless you, and I hope you found encouragement or the courage to ask for unity in your church. I'll continue this blog post on Friday.