Better or Bigger

I have been seeing a trend in churches that I believe displeases the Lord.  I have always read in the scripture where God and His principles makes better people.  Those “better” people make “better” families and then those “better” families make better churches.  Out of meeting the need to make better people, churches expand and make better programs so that lives can simply be better.  Now, we are in the age where making better people can take a back seat to making bigger churches.  Everyone wants the mega church with big screens and smoke during praise and worship.  It is nice, but is it making better people.  There are churches where you can get a title if you stand in the middle aisle too long.  It makes the church look better, but it does not produce better people.  Sometimes, I look at pastors and I can see their own kingdom dancing in their eyes.  God's Kingdom is placed on the back burner as they build and seed their own fields.  When I look at the people, especially the leadership, I see some seriously inferior people in places where there should be excellence.  I see sin in places where I should see forgiveness and a fruitful life.  I see people who are not the best people, but they are in the best places.  You can't build a house out of inferior materials.  When the storm comes, the house will be in Kansas and the people will be running for the ditches.  A well constructed church is not about how many turkeys you hand out, but how many lives are changed.  In the book of Revelations, he did not come to judge the church on how many times it had a building program or how many Christmas contadas it had.  The church was judged because of the condition of it's members who had lost their first love, suffered evil to be taught in the midst of a righteous God and were lukewarm when they should have been hot or cold.  We often hear that the church is not bricks and mortor, then we get enchanted by trying to be bigger.  Bigger is not better, it is bigger.  God deliver us from just getting bigger and then we then can get better.