Great people in every church by Joyce Meyer

Joyce Meyer will tell you the absolute truth: I’m very concerned about the church and when I say “the church,” we are the church so I’m talking about the church in general, not a specific church. There are great churches. There are great people in every church. There are phony people in every church. I’m sure there’s good in every church and there’s probably bad in every church. We get into all this denominational thing and we’re all fighting about who’s right and my feeling is that nobody’s 100% right. I think we all do the best we can and we’d better start learning how to get along because one thing’s for sure – if the different churches are fighting, how are we supposed to impress the world with that? But I’m concerned and I hope that I can get you a little bit concerned today that the church is not having a very good influence on the world. I believe that God’s reputation needs to be better than what it is.

Joyce Meyer Online – In one way we can think: God is able to take care of his own reputation. Well, you know what? We are representing God and people don’t see God; they see us. We are his representatives. If I send one of my children to do something, which our oldest son David represents us in all the foreign fields and he’s been effective in opening foreign offices for us in Australia, Africa, Russia, England, Canada, and different places including the middle east. We have an office in the Middle East and I’ve never been there. What they think of this ministry has a lot to do with what they think of him. Amen? Amen.: It’s the same way with God’s reputation here on the earth today: He’s not here for people to see; they’re looking at us. We are his representatives. We represent God. We have such a problem in our western culture with selfishness and self-centeredness. We don’t care enough about the lost. We need to care more about whether people are going to heaven or whether they’re going to hell. We need to wake up and smell the roses and realize that after we’re saved and our place in heaven is secure, if God didn’t have any purpose for us, he would just get us out of here.

Joyce Meyer Ministries – Yes, God wants us to enjoy our life and he wants us to prosper, to have nice things, and to succeed, but more than anything, God wants representatives on the earth – come on now! – That are representing him in an excellent manner; I mean not even in just an okay manner, but I mean in an excellent manner.