Many churches try to offer things that not all churches offer ...such as activities and events. It is good, especially for youth, to have some fond memory of church, or something they remember as fun and interesting.

But, it is not good to offer compromise ...as in compromising the truth, at the expense of keeping the membership from going through seasons of famine.

If we need to compromise the truth to make something interesting, then are we sort of saying that believers don't know how to have fun?  Or perhaps we need to consider whether we have forgotten.

Yet, we should also keep in mind that this refusal to compromise the truth, should not prevent us from ministering in various loving fashions ...to those who make up the population of our communities.  We seem to differentiate too much between the unbeliever in our neighborhood, and those unbelievers that our churches sponsor missionaries through.  Anyone who is a non-believer has an equal disadvantage.  So, why do we appear harder, at times, on those who live within our own culture?  

We often give much grace and understanding to all those lost souls who live overseas, who desperately need to accept Jesus into their lives ...who do not daily create a stir in our own neighborhoods.