Church attendance

I’m an old member of a Baptist church and I keep seeing articles in The Alabama Baptist about how to grow your church and keep attendance up.

I thought I needed to remind our pastors that they seem to be forgetting two things about the message that God is good — God is also righteous and just.

I haven’t heard a message about hell or totally focusing on Christ for sometime.

We keep telling people they are going to hell when in fact they are in hell and we want to get them to heaven through Christ who died for them.

We need to tell people there is more than just coming to church on Sunday and then forgetting about Him through the week.

We need to remember WDJD (what did Jesus do). Matthew, Mark and John all tell you.

We like to form our prayer groups and pray about the condition of the church but not about the people around us who need some aid. Instead of forming a prayer group why don’t we just talk to God all day long. It does me good.

Lets get back to the gospel of our grandfathers and Peter and Paul and let God do the rest.

James E. Sartain
Semmes, Ala.