Is the church being guided more by God or Satan?

[RedTent]

With my advanced age, I am privileged to have watched the church a long time before most of you were born. I can tell you that every year more people openly allowing sinful living in their life are accepted in our churches as very normal.

To very elderly people who have seen other attitudes, we have to adjust to this new world. It is new to us to have to lock our possessions as we do, to have places in our cities we dare not go, to not let our children play anywhere freely but need organizations and supervision always. Each of us was brought gradually to accepting our movies and TV shows---if it had been done all at once there would be lots of sales for smelling salts.

People don’t say one day that they will follow demons instead of God. They say they follow only God, except for “this one little thing”. That is like a crack in the door for demon influence to enter, it is by one thing at a time. That is why scripture says: Mar_12:30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.

Our churches are growing in another way, too. They are accepting the OT as scripture that they really learn about Christ through. For instance Passover. They knew about blood on the doorposts, and death passing over. They knew it related to Christ and those weird Jews celebrated it without knowing Christ was that lamb. Head knowledge. To celebrate it, we had Easter and no one I knew had any idea or even thought about why we used Easter and Jews used Passover, and we knew Christ and they didn’t. Didn’t care, in fact. Now, many have grown closer to God, understand all of scripture better and relate it to our lives. We can spot empty rituals, and meaningful worship. We are growing.

We are growing in both understanding and acceptance of the ways of the Lord and the ways of the devil.

 

[Osiyo]

We have in the day that we live in allot of revisionism going on, but it’s not coming for the Church Conferences, or Government, it’s coming from the Church. We are revising what a Church is today, the Bible says and they continued, this early Church they continued steadfastly in the Apostles Doctrine, and in fellowship and in the breaking of bread and in prayer. Now we have revised that and said, if you can get people for one hour on Sunday morning in a building, that’s the Church, that’s not the Church. We can use every device we want to get people for one hour, and keep it early, and keep it moving, and keep it going, because people have important things to do that day. That’s not the story of the Christian Church, that might be the story of our Church, but that’s not the Church Jesus built. In the history of revivals down through the ages have taught us that whenever things have grown craze, commercial, secular and hard and worldly, God sends a revival. And what’s always the sign of a revival? Behold, they pray, the Church begins to pray. Moody goes somewhere in England, and they begin to pray. Finney goes to upstate New York, and they begin to pray. The great awaking happens in America, and they begin to pray, who was the fancy preacher? Nobody, they prayed. Where was the great music, awe they made great psalms, but that was not the great thing about it, they prayed. Prayer preceded it, prayer kept it going, and the minute prayer ended, the Spirit of God lifted and we got back into tough times for the Church of Jesus Christ.

The greatest thing anybody can learn in this world is how to pray. How to call on God so that God intervenes in a situation. They continued steadfastly in the Apostles Doctrine, and in fellowship and in the breaking of bread and in prayer, and that is the Church. Be blessed and why not?

 

[oldthennew]

prayer is the most intimate exchange that we can have with
our Father, once we learn and are comfortable with eachother,
the mountains move!

oldthennew