It is blatantly obvious that Christianity in this current generation clearly presents another gospel or an aberrant, or should I say abhorrent gospel. The weakness among Christians in the body of Christ is clear evidence that the message of the gospel has been watered down or changed so that the power to bring about strong conviction of sin and a need for repentance is gone from the minds of most church goers.
We have created a gospel that makes salvation easy as falling off a log. God’s love is over-emphasized, and God’s wrath is completely ignored by most who preach and teach in the churches of America and in many places around the world.
It is far past time that Christians repent of this perverted presentation of the gospel and begin to seek God to repair the breach between weak ineffective preaching and the preaching that brings genuine coversion to men and teaches them to remain committed to the cause of the Christ who gave his all for them!
I believe before this can be accomplished we must return to the concepts that cause us to see God as he really is rather than as we would like him to be. Preaching and teaching must come that returns us to the once lofty concepts that past generations have held of God such as his Perfection, Holiness, Power and Majesty. We must begin to speak of God’s wrath and judgment as realities that all must face who reject salvation through Christ!
Without this the church will continue to sink to new lows and preaching will continue to be more of a laughing stock than a means of reaching the lost for Christ. It will lead to false salvation promises that leave men believing themselves to be safe in the arms of Jesus but not challenging them to commitment, purity and holiness before God. Christians need to learn to pray and also to be silent in God’s presence so that he might speak to them. We are in the instant generation and we treat God much like a fast food restaurant where we drop our order expecting instant answers instead of learning to wait and to hear what he would say to us.
If we refuse to turn back to what is truth and continue believing this fable that is currently being passed off as a saving gospel message then we will be facing God one day for our disobedience and our indifference and despicable insensitivity to him, his son and all those he has sent us to reach with the one true gospel. We must repent now! The World is waiting!
Filed under: A Call From Mediocrity to Action
