The Church that Fights Together Stays Together

The title of this article may seem strange until you read it closely. You may have thought it meant that a good church fuss is needed to keep a congregation unified. Certainly, the title could come across that way.

The title, instead, comes from a different point of view. There are too many congregations of the Lord’s people who are not fighting Satan and sin together in big enough ways. They don’t have huge goals for which they are striving in the Lord. They are just able to sit back and wallow in the status quo.

And when that is the way things are, they will start to bicker with one another.

Consider soldiers. When they are in the barracks, they pick at one another, and sometimes even get into fights. Some of it may be in good fun, but often some serious fusses can break out.

However, those same soldiers, when they are in the heat of battle, will stand completely united and will fight for one another as if their fellow soldier were a member of the family.

What changed? There was a goal that was bigger than themselves and worth fighting for!

Churches need to set goals for members that are bigger than the status quo and that are worth fighting for. There is no way to exhaust the list, but consider the following as some goals that may seem too audacious, but are worth our best effort:

• Working to end drug use in the local schools
• Mentoring and helping teenage and poor mothers throughout the community
• Raising the money for a huge building project; one larger than the congregation has even considered
• Adding staff when the church budget is already stretched
• Getting commitments from 25% (or more) of the congregation to take a mission trip within 3 years

All it takes is someone willing to cast the vision where the people will catch it, and a lot of faith.

If your congregation is bickering, give them work to do! Just make sure it is work that is bigger than anything they’ve ever tried before. Watch them go from feuding to fending for their brothers and sisters.

Get in the fight together, and unity will be the byproduct.

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