Two weeks ago I asked for your help in identifying the key hindrances in the Western church. I did this to inform me with your insights as I work on my next book.
Your responses were many and amazing!
I have organized those responses into the three primary categories they seem to fall into. Below is a mini-version of my notes. You can download my full notes here.
Key Hindrances:
1. Our relationship with God
- Lack of intimacy with God
- Not listening
- We don’t know Him as He is
- We don’t know His word and/or we are lackadaisical about it
2. Our involvement in religious traditions and legalism
- Religious attitudes
- Man-made traditions
- Religion and pride
- Comfort-seeking in our church life
- Me-centered in our church life
- Consumer mentality as a Christian
3. Our followership (our walk as disciples)
- Lack of obedience to Jesus alone
- Lack of obedience to all of Jesus’ commands
- Not making disciples
- Not surrendered wholly
- No passion for the lost
- Compromise
Again, I only printed the first few responses and you can see the full list here.
Very, very helpful! More coming…
