Church Plant Research Paper

Church Plant Paper

The most important call for any believer is to spread the Gospels message! God left his children here to carry out the great commission, but many things that can hinder His people from doing this. One things that can hinder the church from being lights in a lost and dying world is Idolatry. This is the number one tool that Satan uses on God's people, after all it’s the same trick he used on the Old Testament saints. Idolatry put a believer in a different state and mind, a different road, away from the road God wants His people to be. Allan Watts a famous philosopher say this about Idolatry "“Idolatry is not the use of images, but confusing them with what they represent, and in this respect mental images and lofty abstractions …show more content…
His people aren't left behind to gratify the flesh or that God sits up in Heaven looking for the next opportunity to make things cushy. No, the Lord left us here so that we acknowledge by our actions that He is God, that we acknowledge by our actions His will (not ours), and that we acknowledge by our actions His dreams (not ours)! Another device that Satan uses to hinder the church from planting and sowing seeds of the Gospel is legalism. Legalism is the emphasis on tons of rules or regulations that helps a person achieve salvation or spiritual growth. In other word, these legalistics force a lost person or saved person to follow the strict rules set by them to maintain power or control over the those weak in the faith. When Jesus came on scene in Jerusalem, Galilee, wherever, a lot of times he would combat the religious authorities teachings. Here is one example found in the scriptures" Then the Lord said to him, “You Pharisees are so careful to clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside you are filthy—full of greed and wickedness!". Legalism is a powerful tool satan uses, and just like Idolatry, its traps the individual mentally and spiritually. There is another tool Satan uses, and that is