and why are christians still gravitating to "nice" and "safe" neighborhoods? What is being taught in the meeting-houses of today? Obviously it is soaked in greed (niceness) and fear (safeness).

let's repent.

any christian discipled to OBEY all that he has commanded us is going to manifest a hearty desire to get in there and share the gospel in the tough places... most of the Cincinnati churchgoers think it's beyond good enough to visit a tough place a couple of days a year...

let's repent. Starting with pastors who model and teach to this. If your leadership isn't making a disciple of you--one who obeys all that Jesus commanded us--you need to examine your motives and get real with the Lord... are you into that?

and you pastor-folks... doesn't it make you fearful that the single greatest enemy to the kingdom of god (which is impossible to impede) has been institutional/organized/professional religion-people? Don't you tremble at the thought of facing a stricter judgment, having made man-pleasers and line-toe-ers of the people that Jesus called to deny self and take up the cross?

We are to equip our people to be holy and surrendered to Christ, even unto death. What? To resist sin and to serve to the extreme. Some of us are satisfied with "turn-outs" to "events" that do no more than advertise our meeting days... wow...