Threat

The greatest threat to the power of today's church to transform lives is today's church. The church is called to Be holy as He is holy. To meet the needs of the poor, the orphan, and the widow. To speak the truth in love. To live in harmony with one another. To confront sin in the body. To practice hospitality to strangers. To treat the alien in the same way you who are an alien in this world desires to be treated, To love sacrificially God's fellow sheep, To comfort the hurting, To preach the gospel to the lost. To give double honor--from our wallets--to those who have been called as ministers in the church. To be unspotted by the world. To as much as possible live in peace with all men. To remember that no Scripture is of any private interpretation--God says what He means.

And if you believe that the threat applies to everyone else's church and not your own--pride goes before a fall. The angel of light is in the building. Soon he will reveal himself as the devouring lion.
Be diligent to show yourself approved unto God, a servant that doesn't shame His Lord, one who rightly divides the Word of God.