[Scott]

It is hard to find a church that keeps us on our toes. People today want a church that makes them feel warm and fuzzy which will end up being waterdowned truth or non truth. So to become a popular church the pastors start making things easy for people and making them feel comforatable. Jesus spoke of hope and faith and grace, we should take confort in those things, but his messages were never comfortable, they keep you challanged and grounded. So if you find a church that convicts and moves your heart to change and helps you build your relationship with Jesus then you are in the right place. The tough thing to remember is the churches we are in maybe working for the person next to us and it may be helping there relationship with Jesus even though it may not work for us. I agree we need to find the church that helps us, not stumbles us.

We need spirtual prunning and God often times uses the Chuch to do this, so we need the word of God, the worship and the fellowship time with each other to help with this prunning process, and sometimes this prunning is happening to self or its happening to others but we need each other including the pastors/preachers/ministry.

Thanks for sharing good stuff.