Church is Gay

Only 15% of US churches are reproducing. This is not a good thing. In fact it's kinda gay.

Hear my logic on this one:
Many churches spend a lot of time raising a ruckus about homosexuality.While, this blog post is not intended to frame my views for you on homosexuality, I will be throwing the term around rather losely, so if you are easily offended, now is a good time to quit reading this.This is meant as an object lesson on growth.

In many of these churches you will hear that being gay is unnatural, it's weird, that homosexuals can’t reproduce, and therefor being gay is just not right. Here is my point. For the most part, Church is gay. Well, 85% of Churches, statistically speaking, are gay. How are Churches gay you ask? Well, most Churches don't reproduce.  

Many Christians will rant about how wrong homosexuality is, but 85% of our churches are not reproducing them selves and that seems, according to a common argument, gay.

 How is this ok? Do we think it was Christs plan to save a few Christians and then have them only hang out with each other and make no attempted to love people that are different than them? How is that not gay? The Church is dying because we are not, as the kingdom of Christ, reproducing ourselves. Each church individually is gaining weight, but not reproducing! The church must stop carrying the attitude that they can be self-absorbed and only focus on existing churchs, or the church will continue to decline.

If a dude were to only hang out with other dudes, talk about how wrong women were, have house parties for only dude friends, and never interacted with the other sex, people might start to question their sexuality a bit. Why do we treat the Church and Christians differently in that line of thought? Why is it often ok for Christians to only hang with other Christians, talk about how horrible non-Christ followers are, have parties for only their "Christian" friends, and refuse hang out with people that are not already Christians? That just seems to be hypocritical a little bit. While it is not wrong to hang out with only Christians, its probably not what Christ had in mind when he died for all mankind. I think the news of Christ is to be lived, shared, and gifted. 

Have you noticed that churches often hang out with other churches and focus on their relationship with existing churches, rather than investing time and resources in new growth? This must stop. As a Big “C” Church, we must devote energy toward growing not just individually, but locationally as well. If the Church does not put a greater emphasis on growing itself, it will continue to die off. I'm not saying it's WRONG for a church to not plant new churches, nor am I saying it is WRONG for a Christian to hang out with other Christians. I AM saying that if things do not shift some of these habits, we will severely limit the potential and ability of  the gospel of Christ to be spread to people that need to hear it. 

Please note: I love my Church and I love my Christ following friends, but my heart aches for the millions that don't know the love of Christ and that are living far from God because they have never experienced life in Christ. I want them to have a brighter future. Please also note that I love your Church too. God's kingdom is way bigger than me or a church, it's a movement. This post is not meant to criticize, just to inspire us to reach higher. Whatever your church is called to do, do it well!

Thanks for your time.