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Sep 15, 2024 · A common criticism leveled against congregations by visitors, new members, or even those who have become dissatisfied with their identification with a particular local church is the charge that it practices “cliquishness.” A clique is “a small, exclusive group of friends or associates” (American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language).
- Kyle Pope
Jun 22, 2015 · The Bible says, “People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart” (1 Samuel 16:7). It is disobedient for leaders or anyone who calls themselves followers...
- We Preach Christ, and Him Fragmented
- We Trust in The Works of Our Hands
- We Idolize – and Abuse – People
Grouped into our various cliques, we equate the Gospel with our group’s “distinctives.” We work to defend and promote our group and to vilify others (including other Christian groups similar to ours). We treat people not in our group, either as “prospects” that we recruit to join us – or as not like us, not suitable for us, maybe even hostile to us...
When the church is a conglomerate of cliques, that is not the churchJesus is building. Rather, it’s people who have identified with God, yet are trusting in the works of their hands. In both the Old Testament and the New, that’s something that brings a strong rebuke from the Lord. It’s something he always links with, and counts as, idolatry. Tragic...
Church cliques teach us to bow before narcissistic leaders, to see them as perfect, to receive what they say as the voice of God. Such cliques convince us that unquestioning loyalty to the systemand its leaders is in fact obeying God. They teach us to sacrifice everyone and everything in order to continue to belong. And so, a lot of people who may ...
The Bible says that He healed many, before eventually pushing away from the crowd. (That’s right, even Jesus got away to rest occasionally). While heading up the mountain to get away, Jesus does something interesting: And he went up on the mountain and called to him those whom he desired, and they came to him.
These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage. But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. They said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
Mar 11, 2024 · A clique is “a small, exclusive group of friends or associates” ( American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language ). The reason the charge of “cliquishness” is leveled at churches has to do with its treatment of all others.
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Psalm 90:1-10. Psalm 90 gives us probably the best biblical perspective of time. This psalm, the only one attributed to Moses, compares how man and God view time and life. His conclusion, of course, is that man and God look at time from entirely different perspectives.
