Posted on 05/23/2024 9:05:27 AM PDT by fwdude
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — George Barna, a leading expert in church and worldview trends, has weighed in on some of the biggest issues facing the Church — including the steady decrease in a biblical worldview and dwindling concern for spiritual formation — at a time of "Christian invisibility in our culture."
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“People have become more selfish, churches have become less influential, pastors have become less Bible-centric,” Barna, who now serves as the director of research at the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University, said.
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I tend to believe these trends, which are absolutely chilling if you are a biblical Christian. The number of pastors and other Christian leaders which have a worldly view of Christianity is horrific.
“And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. But he who endures to the end shall be saved” (Matthew 24:12-13).
Lawlessness is certainly abounding.
Amen. Completely agree.
[absolutely chilling if you are a biblical Christian]
Leftists took over a significant operation (unnamed) of a certain denomination. I don’t want to name the denomination because it would not be fair to their mostly-conservative members.
I had no idea what I was walking into.
I think I know the name of the Denom. I was a lifelong member of it until the last 10 years.
[except there come a falling away first]
(For me, “that Day” is the Day of the Lord - YMMV)
2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 King James Version (KJV)
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that Day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that Man of Sin be revealed, the Son of Perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
All of this makes post-millennialism a head scratcher for me.
They could not figure out why conservative churches were not purchasing their liberal junk.
Quote something from the Bible and there were a few that were almost apoplectic. And animated.
Too many Christians have bought into liberal and leftist lies.
That’s the real problem.
Let’s start with how the left convinced Christians that evangelism is a sin and that being an evangelical Christian is right up there with being a Klansman.
Then they got most Christians to buy into the birth control and abortion culture.
They made us accept female pastors who are 99% leftist lesbian feminists...even when they have a husband and children.
They got us to stop talking about politics.
They got us to let them have their way in the schools.
They got us to accept a feminized pacifist form of Christianity that is purely heretical.
We need to insist on having actual MEN in the pulpit. The kind who will go out to a battlefield and tell the troops to “Give ‘em Watts!”.
yep
If Paul were alive America’s churches would have received a slew of letters from him already. We are reaching to point in Revelation about the church no longer being effective and then being removed and the beginning of the end game...
One of the main ones being making Jesus into a feminized, sugar-coated, "loving" pushover, malleable to their bases desires. Even many Evangelical have bought into this characterization.
One of the common biblical depictions of Jesus is of a Lion. Another is of an unswayable Judge. He has a sword for a tongue.
They forget the actions of Jesus before he was glorified, beating people, turning over tables, name-calling when it was appropriate (often) and even condoning destruction ("shake the dust of your feet..."). Nope, not the popular "Jesus" taught in most churches.
I think the play-out of the end time scene will progress in an exponential acceleration pretty soon. What used to take 10 years to develop will now take 10 weeks, and soon, 10 days.
I don’t know about all this. My former United[sic] Methodist Church brethren have done their part to be very visible lately.
Exactly! The question of “What Would Jesus Do?” includes the options of overturning tables, chasing people with whips, causing fruitless trees to wither and die, castigating hypocritical religious and political leaders, and abandoning the unsaved when they won’t repent.
Not exactly the faggoty castrated Jesus the leftist scum promote, is He?
Repentance is in order I guess the mirror is a first step but I think much more follows the look in the mirror.
All have sinned but there is hope.
I believe them too. Parts of my Church think they are a social-welfare organization, sort of a Christian supplement to the vast government welfare state. Like the state - they need to "popular" too, particularly among people who could not care less about Christianity. I understand the need for evangelization, but IMHO, such efforts turn into political correctness, and run in parallel with our times, not against them.
Sadly, humans find their identity in everything but Christ. We are increasingly in times of maximum self-delusion and darkness is upon us to the point where many no longer know up from down.
[We are reaching to point in Revelation about the church no longer being effective and then being removed and the beginning of the end game...]
I think that’s correct. And yes, things seem to be moving ever-so-rapidly on certain fronts.
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