Truth!
[[“The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.” (John 3:8) In John 3:8, Jesus relates the moving of the wind to the moving of the spirit. ]]
Yup. Not gonna name demonization, but folks wonder why so and so would attend a church that is not very biblical, and why they don’t just get out and into such and such a denomination, but as I learned once, the spirit listed where it will, and people in churches that don’t even preach salvation do from time to time genuinely find Christ as their savior. Folks attending the nearly godless churches could be out partying, shirking family life, etc, but they are at least going to church on Sundays with their families, and are not totally averse to God and his word, and have a better chance of ‘stumbling on the truth by reading his word on their own even if their church rarely preaches it, or preaches it in Error.
I guess the bottom line was that I shouldn’t criticise folks for being In what I consider ‘inferior churches’, because I do NOT KNOW where the spirit will list. He can even grab hold of someone who just perhaps never even really seriously considers God, but who happens to walk past an outdoor revival meeting, and stir them to walk in and ‘see what all the fuss is about for themselves. We just don’t know where and when the spirit will work. God evenworks in the lives of ‘hopelessly addicted folks, by perhaps leading them to find a hospel tract on the ground, or buliten bord or whatever. God’s ways are not our ways
Of course we should try to encourage folks in churches that don’t preach salvation or the gospel for that matter, to try to find another solid God feari g church, but we shouldn’t get angry if they don’t listen, or try to browbeat them to ‘wise up’ or whatever, because God may need that person in that church for a reason, perhaps to help lead others who wouldn’t hear the gospel from the ‘preacher’ to Christ at some point. Maybe even the ‘preacher’ will come to know christ through the testimony of the saved person In The church- Again, God’s ways are not our own.