Churches that don't know God - Part II

We live in a World with a church that continues to backslide. We now have approx 41,000 different denominations of Christianity in the World yet somehow they all believe in the same “God”. How can such a thing be?

Where does this problem begin?

Well there are many reasons. I'd have to say that the most common one is the fact that the people in the church don't follow the teachings of Jesus, but rather follow the teachings of the preacher. Now, I'd like to clarify that not teachings of all preachers are bad, but there are many false preachers who are out there preaching another Gospel.

Now – we can stay here all day on how this is the preachers fault, but this is also the fault of the people who sit in the pews. The church is not just a preacher, but it is also the people who sit in the pews week after week.

So – the problem is the fact that the people in the pews think that their only duty as a Christian is to go to Church on Sunday, and perhaps pray before they go to bed. Unfortunately, that isn't the only duty as a Christian. We as Christians are also supposed to keep one another accountable. This means that if the preacher is delivering a message that isn't the teachings of Jesus, then the people in the pews should be confronting the preacher in private and explaining this and rebuking the preacher. Unfortunately – a majority of Christians don't read their Bibles, so they don't know what the Bible actually teaches, other than what they hear from the preacher on Sunday.

So the result is we have a preacher preaching a message that allows himself to be glorified, when it's God who is to be glorified, so the people praise the preacher rather than praising God. So long as the people in the church are praising the preacher, the preacher continues to preach a message that is the teachings of the preacher, rather than the teachings of Jesus.

Galatians 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

So – the preacher that preaches a message different from the Gospel of Christ is accursed – unfortunately those who support the preacher, start living out that “gospel” and start teaching people their “gospel” and therefore they too become accursed.

The people within the “church” are becoming accursed because they lack the truth of the Gospel in their teachings and therefore if the truth is not in the message the message lacks Jesus; and if the message lacks Jesus, the message lacks God – for there is a separation between God and men, and that separation can only be restored through Jesus Christ.

We need the God of the Bible to come up and revive the people in these churches. We need the God of the Bible to revive these dead churches! There is a lack of God and that issue needs to be addressed.

I Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.