The situation with Hillsong Church is beyond tragic………so very, very sinful activity! Repent!!
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God is bringing correction to His Church because, corruption cannot carry His Glory!!!
As I scan my emails, twitter feed, and news sources everyday, I see and report the falling of so many so called ‘Christian leaders.’ IT MAKES ME SICK! This is showing that Satan is winning many over to his side because many so Christians are not firmly grounded in JESUS! Many of these folks fall in love with sex, money and fame. It chases away so many people from the Bride of Christ! No wonder people don’t want to have anything to do with the Church. Who can ever forget Jerry Falwell Jr. having his picture taken with another lady with his pants unbuckled! Such shame! I call it like it is. The Falwell family over the years has done so such damage to the Bride of Christ. In all my years in reporting Christian news I have never seen so many Christian leaders falling into the bait of Satan, its like a crime sheet almost everyday! JESUS will have his say, I always say He is going to comeback and turn overt the tables in so many Churches. So much of the Church has fallen in love with MONEY! MONEY! BIG BUILDINGS, FANCY DANCY, LASTEST LIGHTING AND SOUND, SMOKE AND MIRRORS! The focus should be on JESUS, the Gospel, The Ten Commandments, The Great Commission and the widows and poor.
Does your Church have the Ten Commandments posted? Does your Pastor preach them? Does your Church preach The Great Commission? How many baptisims has your Church oversaw in the last year?
I am not here for a high school pep rally! I am not here to be popular! I am here because GOD CALLED ME! GOD has taught me right from wrong. He has taught me to show the world JESUS! JESUS! Let people see JESUS in you!
God has shown me how to share TOUGH LOVE with the world!
Pastors and congregants better stop supporting crazy, misbehaving, unethical, bad mouthed politicians! Your showing an unbelieving world just what it wants to see. You will never win many over to Jesus by supporting bad behavior.
Much of the Church has turned into the world!
Jerry Falwell Jr. sued by Liberty University for millions over sex, extortion scandal
Google ‘Church Scandals’ The Church is like our government, so very full of muck, both the Dems and GOP.
FGGAM Shares a Biblical Worldview Everyday:
“The Biblical worldview says there is a God—One who is personal, powerful and caring—who created the world and everything in it. It states unequivocally that man is created in God’s image, living in essence as God’s co-regent over creation. Mankind—born and unborn, rich and poor, able and disabled—has intrinsic worth. Almighty God is a sovereign God, ruler over nations, states, empires, and governments. He is to be worshiped and obeyed through the precepts and principles revealed in His infallible Word. He not only exists, but He is sovereign over all of history according to His wisdom and purposes, and He is intimately involved in every aspect of life.”
From this past week…….
Americans Are Leaving Church and Most Aren’t Coming Back, Trust in Organized Religion Plummets
This breaks my heart…..
THE CHRISTIAN POST REPORTS:
“Gallup has found that trust and confidence in organized religion have plummeted over the past two decades. In 2021, only 37% of the public reported having a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in religious institutions, a massive decline since 2001 when 60 percent reported feeling confident,”
Americans are leaving church and most aren’t coming back: report
These ugly things sure add fuel to the fire for people to leave organized religion, Too much of the American Church has become about being a star, like a movie star, big expensive buildings, big payrolls, fancy, dancy like the secular world, like Hollywood, smoke and mirrors, how do people like me, the common folk of America, relate to that? All this STUFF, is not the JESUS I see in the Bible. THERE ARE STILL MANY, MANY CHURCHES THAT ARE SOLID IN JESUS! I KNOW, I SEE IT! I PREACH AT MANY! Let us all AIM to be JESUS like! Let people see JESUS in you. While people roam the streets in America, no home, no food, fancy dancy will not help them. JESUS! JESUS!
Does your Church minister to the disabled? Too shut-ins?
When is the last time you have seen a homeless person in your Church? How about someone who is addicted to drugs or alcohol? Someone who has not bathed in weeks? Someone who has not had a good meal in a long time?
That is real ministry! Amen!
People should be able to see JESUS in us! Smith Wigglesworth said one time, “I want people to see JESUS in me, not Wigglesworth.” AMEN! PTL!
Hillsong Atlanta Pastor Sam Collier Announces Resignation, Cites Recent Scandals as Reason
Jerry Falwell Jr. Isn’t a Hypocrite
I could list more, the list gets longer as time goes on. I am sure you understand why my heart breaks for the Bride of Christ.
Dr. Jim Denison shared this today at FGGAM:
The only way to “find life and flourishing”
In Jesus the Great Philosopher: Rediscovering the Wisdom Needed for the Good Life, biblical scholar Jonathan T. Pennington identifies two characteristics of biblical ethics: imitative and agentic.
Biblical moral standards are imitative in that God’s ethical demands are rooted in his own nature. According to Pennington, “Humans will only find life and flourishing when they imitate their Creator, when they learn to inhabit the world in the ways that accord with God’s own nature, will, and coming kingdom.”
Biblical ethics are agentic in that “we as moral agents matter.” As Pennington notes, “Who we are as people is significant—our understanding, our emotions, our motives, and our desires are wrapped up in what is right and wrong.”
This imitative and agentic ethic is a kind of “virtue ethics” that “focuses not just on the external issues of right and wrong but on our interior person and our development to be a certain kind of people. In the Bible, this means becoming more like God himself.”
Here’s the problem: we need God’s help to become more like God. Humans, because we are fallen and sinful by nature, cannot transform ourselves into a holiness we do not possess. I once heard our attempts to be good enough for God likened to a group of tourists who decided to swim from California to Hawaii. The best swimmers got further than the others, but all drowned.
