A sermon entitled......"It's time to move". I sat through to the very end......am still waiting for the logical object of the sentence.....move to where?? Move, why?? It started out talking about the current troubles in the world,etc and I thought to myself - wow, it's actually going to be a sermon on the end-times and how to recognise the age we're in and some solid expository Bible teaching.

Boy, was I wrong.

Yet another motivational speech about how you should not be afraid to "go for it" even though the world seems to be fearful of financial crises. He wouldn't actually come out and say what the point of the message was, although a couple of comments revealed the thinking.

One comment was that the difference between wealthy and poor people is that poor people always keep changing their decisions, so they never manage to become wealthy. By implication, this was something his listeners should avoid as becoming wealthy was really important. Referred to wealth creation a couple of times. So, basically, poor people are losers and rich people are winners, right? Yep, Peter and John were losers because they had no silver or gold to give the lame man at the gate. And some cut-throat, ruthless shark like the bunch at Goldman Sachs is a winner, right?

R-i-iiiiiiight.

By that point I'd realised this was going to be yet another "get rich and don't be afraid to take risks" corporate motivational speech. Not sure why people need to go to church to get more of that....they surely get plenty of it in their workplaces.

Second comment was that "we" (meaning the church) could increase our members while other churches in the country were losing theirs (referencing a recent newspaper article).

Not once was there a presentation of the Gospel message, the fundamental doctrines of the faith, the need for serious and diligent scripture study, exhortation to be ready "in season and out of season", eschatological teaching, etc.

I could've gone to a Tony Robbins seminar and got this......this is what church is becoming....an extended corporate motivational club where nobody teaches the Bible, and we have a whole generation of biblically illiterate people who are unable to discern and will be unable to endure sound doctrine.

Maybe it is "time to move"...?? Me going to pray seriously about this.