I'd have to say the biggest challenge is reforming the rampant liberalism in the church. In most churches, the message has been watered down to the point of becoming an endless litany of trite platitudes. There is no power of the Spirit in vapid words.

And this has been going on for a long time. In a sermon delivered back in 1930, Martin Lloyd-Jones said, "Indeed, I am not at all sure but that one of the very chief causes of the decline of church membership and and church-going is the fact that the church, in an attempt to conciliate and please the masses, has so diluted and devitalised the gospel of Christ, and has rendered it so innocuous that it is no longer even being considered by a large number of people as a possible theory of life...The church is regarded as a sort of dispensary where drugs and soothing mixtures are distributed and in which everyone should be eased and comforted. And the one theme of the church must be 'the love of God.'"

Any wonder that Islam is making inroads into the western world?

Islam isn't the biggest challenge we face.

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Michael Masztal
H.S. Science Teacher at Community Christian School, Melbourne, FL
Member, Chapel By The Sea, ARP
Melbourne Beach, FL