Have you noticed the yellow sign in residential areas warning, "CHILDREN AT PLAY"? I sometimes believe it would be appropriate to place one of those signs at the parking lot entrances of some churches! Why are so many of our churches so stunted in maturity? Why are so many of us "childish" instead of "child-like"? Why has the Spirit given discernment vanished in some fellowships? Why all the carnality evidenced by dissention and disunity? While there are many causes, I believe a primary reason is DIET! We are missing the vitamins and protein found only in the meat of the Word. Just as certain as food selection and cooking techniques insure nutritious meals, I am convinced that expository preaching and teaching of the Word and the application of it would cure much of what ails the church! James 2:22 reminds us to live-out the Word, yet it is also essential to the personal growth of the individual as well as the fellowship for the Word of God to be "rightly divided"(2 Timothy 2:15) and given application ( Nehemiah 8:8) by the preaching and teaching of the Word. Paul warned Timothy of a coming out-break of Infection within the Body of Christ; It is the Infection of Defection prophesied to come in the Last Days before the return of Jesus for His church (2 Timothy 4:1-4). Folks, it has happening and the outbreak is reaching epidemic proportions in America as well as Europe. While there are steeples that fill the sky and church buildings that litter the landscape, there is a shocking absence of uncompromised preaching in the pulpit. The pulpit has been turned into a concession stand which offers no more that the "junk food" in some places. The message is consumer driven instead of Spirit driven in order to keep the crowd coming and the money flowing!! Sermons have replaced messages; Stories have replaced studies. Ignored are Scriptures concerning hell, judgement, sin, sins and the only remedy, the Cross of Christ. By-passed are Scriptures dealing anything deemed "politically incorrect and insensitive". We are becoming a biblically illiterate church in America! Some Christians no longer know what they believe or why they believe it; They don't know how behave either! We you join me in prayer for pastors and preachers have a spiritual awakening that cause fire to return to the preaching and light to the teaching
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May 2021
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