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    Satan tries to destroy churches in 7 key ways: 1) Causing conflict between church members, 2) Burning out volunteers and staff through overwork and lack of appreciation, 3) Spreading rumors that divide the congregation, 4) Distracting churchgoers with excessive busywork that lacks purpose, 5) Spreading lies and false doctrine, 6) Causing scandals, and 7) Disrupting marriages and families, especially those of church leaders. The ultimate goal is to divide, distract, and weaken the church body through internal strife.

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    Satan tries to destroy churches in 7 key ways: 1) Causing conflict between church members, 2) Burning out volunteers and staff through overwork and lack of appreciation, 3) Spreading rumors that divide the congregation, 4) Distracting churchgoers with excessive busywork that lacks purpose, 5) Spreading lies and false doctrine, 6) Causing scandals, and 7) Disrupting marriages and families, especially those of church leaders. The ultimate goal is to divide, distract, and weaken the church body through internal strife.

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    7 WAYS SATAN TRIES TO DESTROY THE CHURCH Be serious! Be alert!

    Your adversary the Devil is prowling around like a roaring lion, looking for anyone he can devour. 1 Peter 5:8 Im not a pastor who is constantly looking for Satan behind everything that goes wrong. I concentrate my attention on Jesus and encouraging others to follow Jesus and not to focus on the defeated one. Yet, Im fully aware that Satan loves to destroyor attempt to destroya church. Obviously Satan is a limited being and Gods church is secure. The gates of hell shall never overcome what God started, but Satan certainly loves to disrupt what Gods church is doing. Here are 7 way Satan tries to destroy a church: 1. Church conflict (Judges 12:1 - 3) Satan loves business meetings that get out of hand or when two church members have disagreements outside of church. He loves when church members argue about trivial things, such as colors of the carpet or big things, such as whether to add another service. Doesnt matter to him. Show him a good argument potential and hes willing to stir the fire. 2. Burnout (Deuteronomy 25:17 19) Satan loves to burn out a church volunteer, staff member, or pastor. If he can make them feel they are no longer needed, their work is not appreciated, or that they no longer have anything to offerhe feels hes winning part of the battle. 3. Rumours (Numbers 12:1 2) Satan is the stirrer of dissension. He likes to plant little seeds of a juicy story, about someone in the church or communitysometimes even the pastor or staffand watch them quickly spread through a church congregation or community. The version, of course, usually grows to a larger portion than reality. Satan likes that too. 4. Busyness (Psalm 39:6) Satan loves to distract church goers with a plethora of activity that produces little results in Kingdom-building. 5. Lies (Genesis 3:1 6) Satan attempts to interject what he calls a half-truth; just a hint of false doctrine and then watch it disrupt or divide a body. Of course, we all know that half-truth is really just a cleaned up version of a bold face lie, but Satan is clever enough to disguise a lie in a way where false teachers gain entry and do damage before being discovered. 6. Scandal (Hosea 9:10) Satan loves a good, juicy, gossipy news headline in the local paper. If it will split, divide or destroy a church bodyeven better. If it will destroy someones Kingdom calling or workhell take that too. 7. Marriage and family disruptions (Ephesians 5:22 33) Satan loves to destroy any relationship, but he also goes after key leaders marriages; even the pastors marriage. He likes to encourage prodigal children. He wants to cause families to fight within the church and fight with the church. Satan knows if he can destroy a home, he has a better chance of destroying a church.

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