Crossroads Community Church of God

“Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, ‘I have put my words in your mouth. See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.’” (Jeremiah 1:9-10 NIV)

The Lord may have chosen Crossroads Community Church as the first church for assessment largely because the problem areas are mostly surface issues rather than core doctrinal areas of concern. The senior minister, Pastor JC Weeks, has charisma and anointing from God. Every sermon that I listened to from him was on the mark for communicating a word from the Lord. Aside from a few churchy phrases that could be misinterpreted, he consistently displayed good doctrinal stance. I can’t say that about very many pastors locally.

Today, God wanted me to talk about two areas for improvement that are good for all churches to assess. I can’t stress enough the importance of talking these over with God. Please, if I don’t get any other message across, please hear me in this. God wants to talk with each member, minister, and staff about His church. The responsibility is not solely on the senior minister. God expects all of us to bring our gifts, talents, and voice to improving the church. None of us should sit back and be entertained. God is watching.

The first area to seek God about is 1) THE SANCTITY OF THE SANCTUARY. Most churches are livestreaming services or recording worship. Having cameras in the sanctuary interferes with heart intimacy and cheapens the whole experience. Please talk with God about this. Ask Him if He wants cameras recording worshipers or if He would prefer a more intimate environment. This is a huge deal for God. Please don’t dismiss the subject because it doesn’t suit your own goals.  

The second area to discuss today is 2) CLEARLY DEFINED ROLES/STAFF. When visiting the church, I want to readily know who the women’s minister is. Who is the youth minister? Who is the children’s minister? For me, I want to connect with those people to know about the individual ministries. At Crossroads Community Church there were no scheduled new membership classes to discuss the church doctrines, and there were not clearly defined ministry roles. If you visit Park Avenue Baptist Church’s website, (@ https://www.parkavenue.org/staff) you will see clearly defined staff roles for every ministry. I would use their site as a roadmap for how to represent staff roles. (I’m not saying that Park Avenue Baptist Church has everything right, because they absolutely don’t have good doctrine about women in ministry, but they do have this area presented well.)  

Again, please pray with God about these areas for your own church. Study what I’m saying. Put yourself in the shoes of a new guest. Would you be willing to invest yourself in a church where you have limited vision of their doctrinal stance or ministry offerings?  

We will continue to look at Crossroads Community Church strengths and weaknesses in the days ahead. We will look at several important doctrines too. Please seek God on how you can invest in the Kingdom agenda.