This church actually voted against The Great Commission!

Think about the mindset of the church and what is the guiding principle for what the church does and should be doing. Question for you: Who is the owner of the church?
Your church board or Jesus Christ the one who declared in Matthew 16:18 that He would build His church. Bricks and mortar is not what matters people do.

Matthew 16:13 - 19 (NIV) 13 When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?” 14 They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” 15 “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?” 16 Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” 17 Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven. 18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. 19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”

See the following from a sermon entitled “Living the Resurrection Life” by Rocky Henriques

I was talking to a pastor friend the other day, who teaches a small seminary extension class. These are men and women who either are now or will be serving a church in some paid staff position. They were discussing in their class the issue of the church reaching out to people who are different from those in the church. My friend warned the class of a very sobering truth: that some of them would be fired from their churches if they actually did reach out to others, the way Jesus taught and commanded.
One of the students is a pastor. He told the class that some in his church were actually reaching out to others who were different—socially, ethnically, economically. And some of those people began to attend his church. But then some of the more influential church members began to be “concerned” because of these people who were attending “their” church. So the pastor said, “Well, folks, this is what The Great Commission says that we are to do.” He was saying to them, “This is our mission. This is our responsibility.” He received such opposition to the whole idea that he put The Great Commission to a vote in his church! Do we support it or not? And that sounds a little comical to us.
But then this pastor told his stunned classmates that the church actually voted against The Great Commission! Can you imagine? I heard my friend telling this and I just shook my head in disbelief. But then I realized something: there are churches who call themselves “Christian” all across our great land who have already voted against The Great Commission by their inactivity, by their apathy, by their nonchalant attitude toward anything spiritual. There are people who call themselves “Christian” around the world, starting right here in our own community, who have already voted against The Great Commission by their don’t-care attitude regarding our responsibilities for service in the Kingdom of God.
May God revive our hearts and empower us to obey Him in doing what He tells us to do. – by Rocky Henriques