I think we have all heard enough of your canned applications for living a Christian life. Now we need leaders who know how to take the high ground and be steadfast against the amorality and heresies of our day that are perverting our nation and our churches.
You have no idea how many Christians tell me that they are totally fed up with churches and do not wish to attend them. Frankly, I find that I can not even defend the Western concept of church. How did the Church of God become a Sunday ritual or a weekly entertainment service?
The Church is the Body of Christ on earth. We are God’s representatives and not a service or a building! I think all Western church leaders should be required to spend one month in a third world Christian church, preferably one under persecution, and then we might see biblical Christianity being taught and enacted in the West. Unless God chastises our churches and our nation and people repent revival is not going to happen in America on any national scale. You can take that to the bank.
Why do the churches make spiritual elders out of kids whose only achievement is to graduate from Bible college? What leadership abilities and moral lifestyle does that display? They then get to be leader of a congregation, spend a few years and job shop for more money or prestige somewhere else. Or many are so immature that they get caught up into sin. So then the local churches get to search again for another outsider that will very likely be their clone. Is that the instruction we received from Paul about how to select elders in our churches? Hello?
Then we wonder why we find that we have used car salesmen instead of leaders in our pulpits. Yeah, and don’t expect these people to put their neck on the line for the flock when they are outsiders and have never bonded with them, and don’t expect unproven kids to lead spiritually when they are still soiling their own diapers. Then we wonder why young pastors are emerging into heretical movements. They should not have been put in the positions of an elder in the first place! Contrary to the thinking of Western Churchianity a degree from ORU or SW Bible College by itself does not make people qualified to be an elder of a local body. Find someone who meets the qualifications of an elder in your church and then send him to Bible college for additional formal training, not vice versa.
Dave Daubenmire — Sheep Without Shepherds
After the event the reaction was the same as everywhere we go.
“My goodness,” the attendees say. “Where are our pastors? Why aren’t they telling us this stuff? We have to do something. There are more Christians than there are any other faith.”
And what is it we are telling them when we hold a seminar?
• Abortion is Murder.
• Homosexuality and divorce are sin.
• Our schools have become Secular-Humanist factories.
• Our rights are God-given, not government-granted.
• God is King…..your government is not.
• Judgment begins in the house of God.
• It is our job to fight for Truth.
• American Christianity has lost His Salty Savor.The pastors never come. The sheep innately know something is terribly wrong but can’t put a finger on the problem. We expose the Devil’s game-plan and their eyes become opened, but they have no where to turn. “I wish my pastor was here.”
But the shepherds won’t come. They are afraid of what they might hear. Christianity is an army without generals.
People in the pews don’t want to hear the hard reality that they are all sinners and have fallen short of the glory of God. They want someone that will tell them that they are doing ok and that the Father will provide them with all that they need, just keep putting your seed faith in the plate every Sunday. The church in the United States has no idea of the coming persecution, what makes us think we are going to miss the tribulation that is going to separate the true sheep from the goats. Look at what is happening in China and Burma, there are Christians there, but you may never hear how they are doing. Most people think, here in the U.S., that we are going to miss the tribulation, that Jesus is going to return and take us up into Heaven. We have not been through trials and tribulations unto death. Most people have not experienced how God deals with us when we are not doing what He had planned for us. That sometimes God will put you flat on your back with an illness that puts you within an inch of death, or maybe He decimates your finances to the point that you file bankruptcy and you are starting all over again, paying everything in cash and totally dependent on God for your income. God will provide, but not in the way most in the churches today think. Look at the lilies of the field and their beauty, so why worry about what you wear or what you shall eat.
We also do not understand the statement that Jesus made when He said, if the world hates you it is because it hated Me first. We have to be in this world, but we can not partake of it’s pleasures. Satan is working overtime in deceiving many to think that just because they call themselves Christian that everything should go well. There is going to be a great falling away from the Truth.
Most will not read the article by Coach Dave. They will put their head in the sand and say “but America is blessed and nothing bad can happen because God won’t allow it”. The truth He will and it is happening now.