Those people do not want Christ. They do not want The Truth
People have not changed in 2008 years. They want to hear what makes them “feel good”. They want “spirit-y experiences” not truth.
That is why the phonies like Bentley,Osteen, Copeland, Hihn, Charisma, et al are so popular. Heck today’s pop-preachers can say ANYTHING mixed with bits of scripture and as long as it makes folks FEEL good they do not exmamine the message.
They are literally blinded to truth.Plus of course folks buy the books and send donations and attend “revivals” etc $$$
And boy do the pop-preachers and their followers get steamed if you tear at the seams of their message. They ALWAYS accuse their critics of being from Satan.
bentley: “...I want to be part of a movement.”
Mr. Bentley you are part of a movement... ;/
They have itchy ears. So very sad.
Interesting... I just made an effort to get through someone’s posting of an entire sermon (well close to 50 minutes) of Todd’s, which was entitled “authentic gospel.”
IN it he did not explain the gospel. He explained what he thought the fruits of the gospel should be. And then he explained why he shouldn’t have to preach it — because everyone else is.
HUH?
I can count on one hand the number of churches that are preaching the gospel in my town (and frankly, I can do it without using any fingers!). I have to drive 25 miles to find one small pocket of believers who haven’t fallen for :
seeker sensitive, pragmatism, contemplative spirituality, word faith, prosperity gospel, the shepherding movement, super-separatist...
ALL of those are CORRUPTIONS of the gospel and I myself was very confused (having attended church all my life and only hearing the gospel in my HOME and in my VERY SMALL church during my teens... and now that I’m 38 I’ve been listening to real gospel preaching for about three years again... because I was in a church that preached AROUND the gospel for so long I didn’t know what was missing until I heard it again! (John Macarthur’s ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL - great book!) And what POWER of GOD there is in that simple ‘foolish’ message — the very power of God that these people deny, all the while that they are saying we are the ones “denying the power thereof.”