If a church has too many attractive man-made points outside that draw your or unbelievers' curiosity, be very careful as they might miss out the most important God-made points that His church must use to teach its people and to change their lives. When God's word is preached without compromise, it is sharper than any two-edge sword and pierces the hearts of men (Hebrew 4:12). But, because the nature of mankind does not like to be accused as a sinner, a church may dull the edges of Word of God and be a place to entertain people.

The top priority of a church is to preach the soul-saving gospel to all condemned people and to help them to escape the permanent punishment of hell and become a child of God. A church must guide people to the Plan of Salvation which is freely given by God and recorded in the Bible clearly. But when a church does directly correct them to repent, since not very many people will understand that such correction is for their own good, these same people will turn to other easy-going churches.

This is why easy-going churches skip the most vital first step where you can become a child of God through being born again and teach people to start from the next steps, which means some churches are teaching people to carryout the duties of Christian when they are not yet Christians. In other words, children of Satan are deceived by false teachers or led by the blind to do the duties of Children of God. As long as these innocent people are not eager to find out the truth from the Bible themselves, they will have false peace in their heart and after being faithful church members for many years, they will find themselves in the hell – but too late to change that destiny.

Consequently, when you need to locate a sound church in order to entrust your own soul, then do not look at the outside factors like the structure (building), pastor, music, popularity, etc. but carefully observe the inside factors, like, what they teach and how they practice what they teach.

Here are some very simple but important Bible Doctrines which can be used as guidance when you are seeking a true church:

1. If church teaches that all people are God's children as God is love, then, this church is already teaching wrong doctrine as the Bible clearly says, No one is righteous (Romans 3:10) and All are sinners (Romans 3:23). How can God have the unrighteous as His sons? — This is a wrong church.

2. If church encourages all visitors to fill in the application for membership to that church without going through the steps of Hearing the Gospel of Salvation, Repentance, Acceptance of Jesus as Savior, Confession of Faith and following Baptism by Immersion, then, add that person to the church as a member (which is the order shown in the New Testament), then, that church is only eager to increase the number of members of its congregation than seek the salvation of their souls from eternal judgement.

3. If church is changing its worship service with contemporary music, instruments, procedures, which will entertain people more than to be pleasing to God, then it is possible that the general ministry of that church has placed more of an emphasis on man than on God.

4. If a church is trying to appeal to the emotion of the people rather than to the reason for the existence for the congregation, this church may not be able to help you find Biblical truth because they will keep speaking to your ears than training you to study the Bible yourselves. At the end you may build up a zeal to work for God but you will be out of the truth and knowledge of God (Romans 10:2) and you will find out that your faithfulness was in vain and gnash your teeth in the darkness (Matt. 8:12).

Some important tips for a newly born again spiritual infant to find a sound church are:

• If you were able to find Jesus as your personal Savior with the help of a certain church or one of its member, most likely that church should be safer for you to be trained and to grow up spiritually with because that church already has shown a concern over your soul and did something for you.

• If such a church or person is not in your local area, you should invest some time to look for a church in your town with patience until you are able to find right one for you.

• In any case, when you are visiting a church, make sure that you get the printed Articles of Faith of that church and observe if they are teaching as such. If you cannot find out yourself whether those Articles of Faith are Biblically sound or not, you can take it to a reliable Christian you know and ask for advise.

• A church should be able to give the impression of a tough training institute where sinful natures are changed and sharpened to become a matured Christian, and always emphasizes the winning of dying souls to Jesus Christ.