Evangelical Christianity Is Fighting For Its Life.

"It seems to me that if any one problem outstrips all of the others in the church today, it is the utter lack of spiritual discernment (which is the ability to discern truth from error regarding God and the things of God.) The church today has boudles credulity (..they'll believer virtually anything). And the result is, the modern Christian church is filled with bad decisions, faulty reasoning, superficial understanding, shallow knowledge and widespread ignorance. Collectively, those things have added more anguish to the church throughout her history, than all of the persecutions combined. Jesus said that wolves would come in sheep's clothing." The Apostle Paul said "grievous wolves will enter in, not sparing the flock." Paul wrote to Timothy and said as time goes on "evil men will get worse and worse, and deceptions will increase." Paul again said, "There will be doctrines of demons that will lead people astray." To put it mildly, there is a world of chaos and confusion in the church today. We cannot, therefore, believe for a moment that everyone who claims to be "in Christ" and claims to "speak on behalf of Christ" is speaking the truth distinguishing between truth and error has become vital to the 21st century Christian. Yet, despite that, there is a greater than ever lack of discernment in the church today. And it is showing up in all kinds of different ways. The undiscerning contemporary church, for example, has often rejected Darwin and Huxley and accepted Freud. It has often rejected doctrine and favored the embraced so-called "unity in our relationships" ...as if that were the priority. It has become fascinated with entertainment adn bored with exposition. it has been enamored with feelings, and undervalued clear thinking. As a result, evangelical Christianity ...and listen to this... is fighting for its very life. I'll say it again. As a result, evangelical Christianity is fighting for its very life. And our time cries out for people with discernment... with the ability to tell the false from the true."

- John MacArthur

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Education

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• emerging
• church
• evangelical

[unclewalt56]

The Protestant evangelical notion that a man can live an honorable, good, and loving life... and still spend eternity in the torments of the lake of fire if he never "accepts Jesus as his savior" (even if he never heard the name Jesus), while an evil man like Hitler can say the words "Jesus come into my heart" on his death bed and spend eternity walking the streets of gold - is as repulsive & downright evil a doctrine as there can be, because it makes God out to be pathologically unrighteous.

[MrChrisHermes]

GOOD. It is DEAD. ISLAM is dead. The one GOD TYRANT is over. These fake religions of CONTROL have tried to keep man from the truth, and now have been exposed as disgusting self serving fascists-THERE IS NO GOD BUT MAN.

[gug1970]

It will likely go the way of all other superstitions.

[dallaskenn]

@MrChrisHermes Amen to that!

[dallaskenn]

Yeah, sure it is. Oh Boo Hoo.

[stevenweir76]

This isn't a revolution against Christianity, it is an evolution of thoughts of ideas which are now saying what was believed needn't necessarily be true. I am worth it to seek the truth for myself. And we are. Humanity can do better than myths from thousands of years ago. We now have knowledge to shape our future for the better. If we are unafraid and if we are honest. Oppression of ideas won't work, oppression of people won't work. You're only delaying the inevitable.

[Furoar]

There's been a horrible misunderstanding! Christians speak a different dialect of English! There could even be varieties of dialect based on denomination! The dialects have clear differences in the terms that may include and are not limited to: knowledge, truth, reality, information, fact, evidence, and proof. In advocation of freedom, we should not force our language onto them outside venues requiring a stringent policy, and we can give job opportunities for Christian - English translators!

[jimboedwardlee]

The Christian church has one option -Change or Die.

[marcohorowitz8]

Christians no longer have the dictatorial power they once had. The age of REASON has finally arrived, unbelievers and Atheists are on the rise. Evangelical Christians know it and are scared that the cards are turning!!!

[farcrypoop]

LOL apparently THE biggest issue with the church today is that it has found out how to wrongly be wrong....hilarious.

[MrChrisHermes]

Christianity-a death fetish cult where SM freaks torment kids and get off on a guy suffering nailed to a cross-FOR THEM. Degenerate. As bad as ISLAM and its martyr perversion-this old testament shit has had its day-time to grow up folks-stop crawling to myths and embrace your potential-this slavery crap leads nowhere but to a crippled retarded world of fear and child abuse.