Joyful

There are tons of churches and churchgoers everywhere, but it is obvious that God's power is not showing in this country. Why do you think that is?

Oo-ran'-ee-os Muse

Yes, churches and churchgoers there are many but who's churches are they? The Lord Jesus says that those who are HIS and love HIM will obey HIS commands. {Joh 14:15 "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. (NKJV)}
With sojourn I say that in these days there are few places that could be called HIS...
I say with lowliness and humility that I am a Salvation Army minister of HIS gospel and have been trained by Him to win souls and disciple them to obey the Lord by His Spirit, which is the grace of God. I have over 80 training sessions recorded in mp3 downloads from the my site that can take a newly saved soul and equip them for the work of the ministry. They are all free and disclose much on this subject.

Luk 17:26 And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:
Luk 17:27 They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
Luk 17:28 Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;
Luk 17:29 but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.
Luk 17:30 Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
Luk 17:31 "In that day, he who is on the housetop, and his goods are in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back.
Luk 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.
Luk 17:33 Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.
Luk 17:34 I tell you, in that night there will be two men in one bed: the one will be taken and the other will be left. (NKJV)

William Thomas Anderson
Oomuse.com/teachings.htm

elijah

As far as being lukewarm.....in revelations He says he would rather spit you out.

Joyful

Yes, according to the Bible it sure showing the signs in so many ways of last days. But why the churches don't seem to realy care about the reality of their congregation?

שׁמע ישׂראל

Looking at the state of the churches, and their antinomianism, it's really no surprise to me. I for one believe that when society strays from the Torah, society suffers from lack of guidance, far more so in the church where it is demonized. Yet Yeshua spoke of such lawlessness.

Scripture shows us that the false prophets will be preaching lawlessness, as it will multiply in the end and draw many to destruction. But such false prophets teaching such things will be dealt with, even as they plead to the one they transgressed against.

Yet again...
Yet moreso...


The plea is there for any who wish to accept it.


I, and others like myself, know full well why His power isn't fully manifested here among the "Churches". We see it everyday, in our modern Christian friends.

Shalom

Joyful

Yes, according to the Bible it sure showing the signs in so many ways of last days. But why the churches don't seem to realy care about the reality of their congregation?

steveh53

Because the Pastors and the parishoners in these luke warm Churches do not believe what is written in the Bible. That is the bottom line. Most Churches today are filled with people who only think about God on Sunday morning, and never pick up a Bible during the week. In fact most of them don't even bring a Bible to Church and the Pastors don't ask them to read the quoted passages along with him. I will bet that most of these so called Christians can't tell you what the sermon was about this past Sunday. I blame the Pastors for being more worried about the collection plate than the content of the service. The good news Joel Olsteen type of sermon might bring in the numbers but without a heaping helping of fire and brimstone, we tend to become complacement at best.

Steve

Joyful

There are many, many reasons why this corruptions of the churches.

I would like to address one by one:

(l) There are many many pastors who are relying on congregations' offering to them. Without their congregation, they cannot support themseves and their families. Therefore they have to wash down the Bible's teachings to "easy to listen" sermons to keep their congregation to their churches.

There is solution to this but the pastors don't want solution.

Struick

If Churches are cold, the next question would be: are they really Christian Churches or just social clubs run by hired men?

Joyful

The problem is that the churches don't ask questions about their churches. Both congregation and the leaders have silent agreement on this IMHO.