A Church Quiz

Posted by Jonathan Brink
November 12, 2008

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Please let me know in the comments how you did.

1. I would rather go to a church that:

(A) Had great worship

(B) There was love.

2. I would rather go to a small group that:

A: Had cool people.

B: There was love.

3. I would rather participate in community that:

(A) Had lots of programs

(B) There was love.

4. I would rather attend a function that:

(A) Was hip and entertaining

(B) There was love.

5. I would rather be lead by:

(A) A really smart person.

(B) Someone who loved.

Sound off

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  • Michael
    My consumerism and materialistic nature (which God is breaking down) would say A for all.
    But the answer that is in more agreement with being fully dependent on God and no one else, would be B.

    I'd rather take the red pill.
  • John Gallagher
    Thanks Jonathan, that is an excellent way of putting it.

    :)
  • (B) priceless
  • Michael, thanks for being honest. I think the A's describe our natural tendencies.
  • Paul, LOL.
  • Like any examiner, you clearly stole Question 2 from the back of the text book as it uses colons instead of brackets...

    Also, this multi-choice quiz is clearly invalid seeing as it doesn't have the correct option - Answer C. Since C is always right.



    On a more serious note, this post makes its point pretty well.
  • Adam, that was funny.

    I was imagining a whole group of people asking, "Where's answer C?"
  • jmeunier
    Why can't the answer be C) Both A & B?

    I bet that smart pastor, with hip small groups, and entertaining worship is trying to be loving and create a place where love is and is encountered.

    He might fail. But I bet he is trying.
  • John, sure he can. But the quiz was to get us to think about what really matters.
  • God is teaching me B.
  • Pops
    I would say B for all with the exception possibly of #3.

    If the programmes were good and outward then I would go for A instead of B because surely A is motivated by B?

    Actually #5 is also debatable - someone could love me all the way into hell?
  • jmeunier
    Jonathan,

    I gathered that was the purpose of the quiz.

    What does "there was love" mean?
  • Pops, I would highly disagree that someone could love you all the way to hell. That's not love.
  • John, "there was love" means exactly that. Love was present in the room. The Holy Spirit was present in someone to be love to someone.
  • Pops
    Perhaps I have not been to clear - someone can be so friendly and loving and not wanting to offend you so that they never present you with the gospel.

    Too much friendship evangelism without the message of the gospel.

    Soup kitchens with no message etc.
  • Pops, sadly much of the church believes that love is simply friendship evangelism and its not. Love goes infinitely deeper than anything we can imagine but it won't control. The cross is the best example of love we can find yet how many of us think of that when we see the word love?
  • Where's the essay portion of the test? ;-)

    Spent a couple of sessions last Saturday listening to Scot McKnight (just created a second post about this on my own blog), on what it means to love God and love others -- so simple, yet so profoundly radical...
  • jmeunier
    Steve,

    Glad you posted your comment. I'll go look for those.

    My question before was genuine. What does it look like when we say, "love was in the room"?

    Jonathan suggests in a comment that "the cross" is what love looks like.

    Do I broaden that to say Jesus is what love looks like? When people are relating and acting in the ways that Jesus did, then we say "love" is in the room?

    I feel like "what love is" is obvious to some and not to others. I'm in the others group, perhaps. It is the same feeling I have when I hear young people talk about hip-hop. All the words have clear meaning to them, but I'm still trying to decifer what it means.
  • John, it is perfect to say Jesus is the personification of love. But tangibly people are still looking for what that looks like. What actions are inherent that we can say look like Jesus. Feeding the poor, healing, speaking truth in love, fighting for people's dignity, and dying for the sake of someone are examples of love. I just use the cross as an example to illustrate how far love goes because many think it's simply sticky sweet and its not.
  • Pops
    Should the Bible not be the definitive word on Love?

    Patient, Kind, does not envy, does not boast, is not arrogant, is not rude. Does not insist on it's own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.

    Along side that put the Fruits of Galatians 3: 22, 23. Colossians 3: 12 - 17, 2 Peter 1: 5 - 8.

    If we are allowing Jesus to live these things through us and we are allowing Him to continue His purpose in Luke 4: 18, 19 then where would we be?
  • My answer to all of these would probably be A if I'm truly honest about what I'd rather have. But what does this say about love in my life. Am I more interested in serving myself or serving others? If option B is ever going to happen, I must engage in making it happen.
  • lizdyer
    Jonathan, My family and I moved from one city to another a little over a year ago and our experience is that it is easy to find a church with great worship, cool people, lots of programs that is hip and entertaining and led by smart people. It is a lot harder to find a church where there is love going on in a significant way. My recent experience confirms my answer to every question is B.
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