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Americans Lost Passion for the Gospel
Americans Lost Passion for the Gospel
In response to:
http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2018/june/francis-chan-calls-out-embarrassing-american-christians-whove-lost-their-passion-for-the-gospel
Francis Chan has called out the Western Churches, he says that American Church has gotten “goofy”.
He says that Christianity in America and church has people that show up depending on the band, a lightshow, or speaker.
We have moved away from sound Biblical teaching and moved to a showmanship mentality.
It’s not about the Biblical accuracy of the speaker but how relevant his presentation is to the people’s lives.
We’ve moved away from teaching Godly living to spectacular light show and production numbers.
The church service has become about the production.
It’s more about a good show than the Good News;
It’s about a moving production than moving us to repentance;
It’s about producing a good feeling than producing Good Fruit
Do you remember the WWJD (what would Jesus do) wristbands?
Those were given away by churches by the thousands.
You could purchase them and it became the fashion wear of the Christian.
It was to remind people to think before acting.
Look towards what their Savior would do and how their decisions could affect them or others.
I think a lot of people really wore them as a badge of honor.
Something like jewelry to set us apart, to show how great we are.
Instead of reminding us to think like Jesus, we think about how good of a friend we are to Jesus.
I have heard many speakers and preachers ask a question.
What would you do if Jesus was standing before you?
How would you act?
When Francis Chan called out the church and how it is acting, he spoke about John.
Chan told of John preaching in the wilderness, warning others about the coming of Heaven.
How he (john) is not worthy to tie His sandals.
Then about Jesus standing before John telling him to baptize Me.
John’s answer is telling on how he respected and honored Jesus.
John tried to prevent this by saying I need to be baptized by you but you come to me.
Jesus says what you say may be true but let this be so for now for it is fitting.
https://www.challies.com/articles/how-god-speaks-to-us-today/
This is not how we the Church react today.
We are more persuaded to think that we are friends with Jesus.
How special we are to be “in the fold” or “family of God”.
We don’t see that our actions, our life means absolutely nothing.
In fact all that we do is grieve the His Spirit every day.
gives a great overview of how we fall short.
is another.
But then again is that really our fault.
When we sit in a church that preaches feel good sermons, instead of Biblical awareness, how are we going to think?
How do we respect Jesus, God and the Holy Spirit if we are not learning about them from God’s word but getting only a paraphrased version.
Be careful when picking a Church
Many churches today do not wait on God.
You can look at their vision and mission statement and many times you see something along the lines of the church being relevant, up to date, culturally important.
Many times you never see scripturally accurate, Biblically sound, Spirit filled or Spirit lead.
Instead of waiting on God to perform the growth, we have meetings about how to draw more people.
How to entertain and retain the ones we have.
Most of these conversations are never about scripture but production and showmanship.
But that is what the people want.
The vision of the church is about hype, excitement, inclusion and disillusion.
I have heard a few pastors that say when they felt the call to preach, they told God ok but I am going to do this my way.
That they could not preach the way their daddy does.
But preaching without the word of God is success without Christ, success without sacrifice.
When I hear a comment from a pastor like this I think of Jesus in the wilderness.
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Now what is being offered here to Jesus is the kingdom without the work, without the pain and without the sacrifice.
The shortcut to success without putting in the work.
How many of our Churches have done this through contemporary services?
Responding to the wants of the people instead of the direction of God.
Seeking their desire and admiration instead of caring for their needs, reviving their spirit and leading to a place of repentance and repair which only comes from God.
There is not shortcut to God.
Jesus says that I am the way, the truth and no man enters except through me.
We have to get to know God, to know Jesus to have a relationship with Him.
Social media allows for you to have many friends, acquaintances and followers.
But that doesn’t really mean you have relationships with these people.
Do you really know them, the true them or just what is in their timeline?
There is no relationship without getting to know the people.
Understanding what makes them tick, what their real interest are and what drives them.
Either we don’t want to take the time to know someone or we have a twisted view of what a relationship is.
I think this is why porn is such a destructive tool of satan against families and relationships.
It gives and teaches a distorted view of a relationship, love and commitment.
It builds a relationship on shifting sand, when one one thing is no longer exciting then we can easily jump on to something else.
Our Churches have become similar in ways.
We do church our way.
Picking a church is very much like ordering from a smorgasbord.
Most people have seen those home DIY programs where you pick from three homes to find your fit.
Is it contemporary or traditional flare; small group, home groups or no groups.
Wooden or metal podiums, bench or pew seats, or individual chairs.
Choir, orchestra, or worship band.
Does the speaker wear jeans or slacks, holes or no holes, is the shirt tucked or untucked, blazer or not.
Choice is not a bad thing.
People do worship in their own way and should as long as it is honoring to God.
However when you look at the choices above, and many of those are what people use to choose their church, you don’t see anything about Biblical teaching.
You see more about production than about preaching the word.
But don’t worry, we are in good company.
And more importantly, we serve a loving and forgiving God.
Revelation chapter 2 and 3 tell of the plight of the Church and where we stand today.
It gives us great insight on how to change and truly serve God and His people.
We need to repent and turn from our ways, strengthen what remains, encourage our brothers and sisters, be faithful, be zealous and the the works that we did first.
Those are God’s words to the church, harsh, hard but truth.
God is patient and does not want any to perish.
Drowning in small sin
In Response to:
https://www.theaquilareport.com/the-utter-horror-of-the-smallest-sins/
I think that many or most has heard the saying that there is no big or little sin, just sin.
There are those that would argue that there is a difference in sin.
Some claim that Jesus taught this difference in the Sermon on the Mount.
That there is a difference in the act of adultery and just thinking about it.
That murder is killing someone but it is not a s bad to just hate someone.
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