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LOST CHURCH MEMBERS!
TEXT: Titus 1:16
THESIS: To wake up & shake up those who have professed faith, w/out truly being saved.
INTRO.:
A. Our text is shocking! It speaks of those who “profess to know God, but in works deny Him...” Does this describe YOU? It surely describes (Your Church Name here) - LOST CHURCH MEMBERS!”
B. B.R. Lakin used to say that 75% of those attending Bible-believing churches were lost. Dr. A.W. Tozer said: “Among evangelical churches probably no more than one out of ten know anything experientially about the new birth.” Dr. A.W. Criswell said that he would be surprised to meet 25% of his members in heaven. Dr. Bob Gray estimated that 75% of those he baptized were not saved! One evangelist, Carl Woodbury, declared that 40 – 50% of professing Christians are lost. Dr. Monroe Parker stated: “If we could get half the church members saved, we would see a great revival.” Pastor Carl LoTurco says that one major problem is that as pastors we are attempting to disciple unsaved church members – an impossibility! Another author wrote: “The greatest field for evangelism today, and in the days ahead, is among church members.” Someone declared the Church is like the Titanic: “large, elegant & sinking fast.”
TRANS.: The question is: What’s wrong? The answer is that we have emphasized “decisions” over the new birth, numbers over
salvation, & filled pews over changed lives. What a horrible thing to sit in a fundamental, Bible-believing church for years & die & wake
up in hell! We need to reexamine what the Bible teaches about legitimate salvation. What is it? and Do we have it? Or are YOU one
of the many LOST CHURCH MEMBERS!?”
TEXT: Titus 1:16
THESIS: To wake up & shake up those who have professed faith, w/out truly being saved.
INTRO.:
A. Our text is shocking! It speaks of those who “profess to know God, but in works deny Him...” Does this describe YOU? It surely describes (Your Church Name here) - LOST CHURCH MEMBERS!”
B. B.R. Lakin used to say that 75% of those attending Bible-believing churches were lost. Dr. A.W. Tozer said: “Among evangelical churches probably no more than one out of ten know anything experientially about the new birth.” Dr. A.W. Criswell said that he would be surprised to meet 25% of his members in heaven. Dr. Bob Gray estimated that 75% of those he baptized were not saved! One evangelist, Carl Woodbury, declared that 40 – 50% of professing Christians are lost. Dr. Monroe Parker stated: “If we could get half the church members saved, we would see a great revival.” Pastor Carl LoTurco says that one major problem is that as pastors we are attempting to disciple unsaved church members – an impossibility! Another author wrote: “The greatest field for evangelism today, and in the days ahead, is among church members.” Someone declared the Church is like the Titanic: “large, elegant & sinking fast.”
TRANS.: The question is: What’s wrong? The answer is that we have emphasized “decisions” over the new birth, numbers over
salvation, & filled pews over changed lives. What a horrible thing to sit in a fundamental, Bible-believing church for years & die & wake
up in hell! We need to reexamine what the Bible teaches about legitimate salvation. What is it? and Do we have it? Or are YOU one
of the many LOST CHURCH MEMBERS!?”