Churches Exist for Ulterior Motives? Part 1 (TMF:782)

Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Peace to Live By: Churches Exist for Ulterior Motives? Part 1 (TMF:782) - Daniel Litton
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       Contention one: Churches actually exist as organizations with ulterior motives. Some say, “I will not listen to any preacher who is asking for money.” A good church is one that exists for the purpose of presenting the Bible as God’s true Word to live by, and also wants to multiply more and more followers of Christ—to be disciple-makers. To overgeneralize and say that all churches are fraudulent and exist for ulterior motives just doesn’t make good, logical sense. It could be true, and surely is, that some churches of the great amount which are out there do exist just to make money or for perhaps another political reason. In fact, the Apostle Paul told the Philippians some 2,000 years ago: “Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will. The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel. The former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely but thinking to afflict me in my imprisonment. What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice” (Philippians 1:15-18, ESV).