Cym98 wrote:
The Emergent church apostasy is why so many (including me) have become disillusioned with the very idea of church practice. But that is only part of the problem.....even the more traditional, conservative churches have become infested with materialism, market driven approaches (seeker sensitive) and the contemporary at the expense of the traditional in their drive to engage the young, whilst the older generation leave in droves, and no one really notices.


I would agree when the theme of worship is set aside or put on the back burner keeping luke warm in exchange for buying and selling truth it can challenge the idea of church practice. It's like history repeating itself .What you decribed above seems alot like the first century church where Christ threw out the money changers. When I start reflecting on some of the practices of today it make me wonder about the question in Luke 18.

Luke 18:8
I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? 

Proverbs 22 instructs us to buy truth and not sell it and contrast that to a strange woman in regard to a narrow pit as one that does the opposite .Are there any ideas that one could offer as to what that means to Christian today?