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Original post @ https://kingdompastor.wordpress.com/2024/03/13/like-the-pot-calling-the-kettle-black/

LIKE THE POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK!

Posted on March 13, 2024 by Pastor Randy

“And why worry about a speck in your friend’s eye when you have a log in your own?

Matthew chapter 7, verse 3 (New Living Translation)

I’m back to being a Noticer. This means not only am I looking, but I’m listening as well. Right out of the box, let me say I’m not promoting one over the other as being the best. I’m only Noticing–and reflecting on what I’ve been noticing for quite some time. It’s not a new phenomenon. It’s been around a while. So, buckle your seat belts and avoid noticing the wrong thing.

It’s the church–specifically, local churches. I’m NOT talking about styles of worship. People of certain age, meaning in the vicinity of my age, have and continue to complain about contemporary worship! I once heard a retired fellow preacher once say, “It’s 7-11 songs. 7 words repeated 11 times!” But again, I’m not debating styles of worship. The complaint they have is this: The loud music, the lights, the hype. They don’t want church! They want to be entertained!

And that, my friends, is the pot calling the kettle black! Long before this thing called contemporary worship came into existence, many Tenured Pew Sitters insisted they wanted the church to look like and be like they wanted. If the preacher didn’t preach like they wanted–get another one. Changing the order of worship or trying a new hymn was enough to heat up the tar and grab that bag of feathers. They wanted the church to be designed for them–what they liked. What made them feel good. And anything classified as church had to happen inside their building, and under their control!

One generation of church folks accusing another generation of being consumers of what the church does is the classic meaning of the pot calling the kettle black! WE, the folks who attend any church (regardless of the style of worship), who insist that they are the consumers–thus church should be what appeals to them–have completely missed the point of being the local church.

We are not the consumers of what the church produces. Folks, we are the producers! That is why we were first known as Followers Of The Way. Following means WE are doing something–not consuming something! That’s why we became known as the Body of Christ! Living bodies are for production.

You can be entertained with the ancient’ hymns, southern gospel songs, or contemporary music. Satan doesn’t care what style of music we sing. He doesn’t care if we have brightly polished brass crosses and candlesticks complete with a 100-year-old pulpit, or a fancy light show with big screens complete with an acrylic podium. All he cares about is that we see ourselves as consumers.

Let’s stop being consumers of church. Let us become what we are redeemed, saved, and restored to be–The Salt and The Light. The thing about Salt and Light is that they don’t consume–they produce!

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