Question 3: Worship
March 1st, 2004Now that you’ve examined if the church holds to scripture and that this shapes what they believe, the next thing to look at is how their beliefs tranform their lives. We are told that the “fruits of the Spirit” (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control–Galatians 5:22-23) are part of being a believer.
Do you see the fruits of the spirit in how people treat each other? Will non-believers come in and know they are christians by their love? Does the worship service point you to Christ and cause you to worship God, or does it instead glorify people or rituals? Is the music style an entertainment/concert? We are designed by God to be a people of worship. We will either worship our creator or the created. So the next question to ask is…