1. What's wrong with church?

2. -The pew research center
Between 2007 and 2014, the number of "religiously unaffiliated" people has risen by nearly 7%, while the number of church goers has gone down by over 2%
-The pew research center

3. Judgement

4. Hypocrisy

5. Unfriendly

6. Exclusive

7. What church truly is
Ecclesia - A people called out; a body of faithful people
"Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's spirit dwells in your midst?" (1 Corinthians 3:16)
"So in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us..." (Romans 12:5-6)

8. What's driving people away from God?

9. John 8:1-11

10. the crowd
They just had to witness everything that went down
Persuaded

11. The Pharisees Trouble seeking tattle-tales Judgmental Know-it-all's
Persistent

12. The woman
Sinful; caught "red-handed"
Humiliated
Targeted
Convicted

13. Jesus
Patient
Just
Humble
Loving

14. Are we being Pharisees, or Jesus?

15. The body of Christ
"By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."(John 13:35)
Love IS NOT condemning, nor condoning.
Love DOES NOT prompt people to stay in their sin, but to move forward. That is why we are followers of Christ

17. “In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.”
2 Timothy 4:1-5

18. The love of Christ transforms