ARE YOU NOT ABLE TO FIND A HEALTHY CHURCH? We get calls and emails every week with the same old story—people cannot find a healthy Church. Christians should be thankful if they have one lead by a faithful shepherd, but those are getting fewer and farther between. For those who don’t have a healthy Church, I encourage them to get rid of any convenience mentality. Even though we are living in the days of apostasy (it will get worse) and it won’t come easily, God is faithful to get us to a healthy Church but we need to do two things: First, the five-minute drives are over, so give that idea up. I used to drive ninety minutes one way, and some attending our Sunrise Bible Church are doing that now. So, what? Jesus went all the way to Calgary. In my spirit of bluntness these days, I challenge folks to realize they obviously know the importance of a healthy Church but still refuse to drive twenty minutes for it. My counsel goes like this: “With all due respect, you are admitting you presently go to services at an apostate Church, so you are part of the problem. Your attendance contributes time, treasure, talents, and another tongue to help that apostate Church continue on. Do you really want to do that?” Remember though, there is no perfect Church, including my own. And if you think there is, don’t go there because you’ll mess it up, just like I would. But if all true, born-again Christians—who know they're not at a healthy Church—would make an exodus this week, most of those Churches would go belly up. Then biblical Churches preaching the truth could do so much more with the increased numbers. So, that spirit of convenience and compromise that causes people to stay in apostate Churches has contributed to lack of attendance at the healthy Churches, which are harder to find these days. But you should know that Christ would not leave you high and dry. He will give you an opportunity to get to a biblically-based Church where you can grow in your relationship with Him—it may just take more faith and effort on your part.