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There should be many church closures if you believe the Bible itself. Jesus starts the church based on faith in how His life and death earns our forgiveness for

There should be many church closures if you believe the Bible itself. Jesus starts the church based on faith in how His life and death earns our forgiveness for us, resulting in eternal life (see GetHisWord.com). His church is to prioritize the truth, reflect Christ’s character in every area of life, have strong fellowship with each other (which is fun!), share the Gospel, and help those in need. God’s Word (and China today) shows such churches multiplying even as believers are jailed for sharing Christ. Jesus and the Apostles also promised that people would turn away to false religions and versions of Christianity. Even in NT, we see the denying the divinity of Christ, adopting parts of worldly culture to appeal to outsiders, not loving each other, preaching focused on health + wealth, etc. God’s Word said in the last days that that would be extremely common with record amounts of people being godless, in churches with non-Biblical teaching, and following false prophets who work false miracles (eg TV preachers). Jesus also says in Revelation 2-3 that He’ll shut down many churches like that. All of that is happening. So, the correct thing is to return to the real Gospel, teaching built on God’s Word, churches focused on living it, and love and accountability among believers. More non-believers will believe it when they see it. Also, more prayer… every church praying for the nation as we were commanded to… so we see more great moves of God. Prior revivals had thousands of souls changed and lives changed. In Wales, crime effectively stopped for a while to the point the police were all bored. Imagine that.

tsegratis 3y ago
I believe you hit the nail on the head And your bio reflects my personal experience; it is something so good and so awesome; it is out-of-this-world, and so, out of describable, out of computable, beyond > He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. john1 It cannot. As a straw cannot receive an ocean @dang I would say far from offtopic, this is the most ontopic comment...
- nickpsecurity 3y ago
  Indeed. Receiving eternal life instead of wrath is already awesome. Then, we see how Christ transforms people and works in their lives. I’ll give fresh examples. I was out door to door today. God put several of them right in front of me as I was about to knock. All good conversations. Several had struggling families, people who went trans & Satanist, etc. They were greatly encouraged by God’s Word, one to tears. Another had just asked for God to send her an answer about where to go and I knocked on her door with that answer. A number had left churches due to the worldliness I referenced in my comment, too. Outside of that, we’ve seen amazing things happen. People close to Christ were about the only folks with peace and joy working retail during COVID. My prayer group has seen two people supernaturally healed with doctors baffled. One still has the neurological damage but no symptoms. Hardcore folks in our local prisons are begging for more of the Word with some transforming. One evangelist I met was doing drive by shootings in his past. It’s just amazing watching Christ work miracles and change lives every day while the news focuses on alternative philosophies doing record damage. The media needs to report, not suppress, this stuff. Then, we’ll see real change happen.
  - talldayo 3y ago
    > The media needs to report, not suppress, this stuff. If media discards secularism, news becomes worthless. No organization that spans the trust of religious and non-religious audiences would acquiesce to the promotion of an arbitrary religion - I doubt you'd support what you're asking for if it treated Muslim revelations with equal weight. Regardless, showing people at mass on TV will not solve food inequity or goodwill towards mankind (ask me how I know; I grew up in Detroit). Your heart is in the right place, but compared to the "struggling families" you've described, you might be the least functional of them all. You require the illusory promise of salvation to persist; denying it for you is almost like killing your own ego. You flip-flop between counterintuitive stances based on what the bible or the ecclesiastics say is right. Perhaps your own notion of morality and logic is stunted, because you're dependent on the word of others to interpret reality for you. In a world full of realized problems and pragmatic failures of the human condition, faith is the least realistic framework for actually fixing our world. Convincing people to reject personal willpower and self-righteousness is how you kill the individual and create a mentally-neutered sycophant.
    - tsegratis 3y ago
      Thankyou @talldayo, it is lovely to hear from you > promotion of an arbitrary religion Truth is in short supply. I think in secularism, and the religions as you described, people push their own advantage, rather than an independent truth. But the idea that our ultimate goal is truth -- i.e. truth is God, God is truth: This is the only truly trustable source; since anyone who places something higher than truth, such as life, will sacrifice truth to get that. So considering God, to be truth can be the only fully trustworthy position This is quite different to your conceptualization > you might be the least functional of them all "If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied" 1cor15. So Yes :) > you're dependent on the word of others to interpret reality for you I really really appreciate your feedback!! However I would attest to many many personal revelations and observed miracles to the point i would consider myself insane not to believe. i.e. It is very much personal choice I appreciate your other comments too, but my reply is already long

tsegratis 3y ago

I believe you hit the nail on the head And your bio reflects my personal experience; it is something so good and so awesome; it is out-of-this-world, and so, out of describable, out of computable, beyond > He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. john1 It cannot. As a straw cannot receive an ocean @dang I would say far from offtopic, this is the most ontopic comment...

nickpsecurity 3y ago
Indeed. Receiving eternal life instead of wrath is already awesome. Then, we see how Christ transforms people and works in their lives. I’ll give fresh examples. I was out door to door today. God put several of them right in front of me as I was about to knock. All good conversations. Several had struggling families, people who went trans & Satanist, etc. They were greatly encouraged by God’s Word, one to tears. Another had just asked for God to send her an answer about where to go and I knocked on her door with that answer. A number had left churches due to the worldliness I referenced in my comment, too. Outside of that, we’ve seen amazing things happen. People close to Christ were about the only folks with peace and joy working retail during COVID. My prayer group has seen two people supernaturally healed with doctors baffled. One still has the neurological damage but no symptoms. Hardcore folks in our local prisons are begging for more of the Word with some transforming. One evangelist I met was doing drive by shootings in his past. It’s just amazing watching Christ work miracles and change lives every day while the news focuses on alternative philosophies doing record damage. The media needs to report, not suppress, this stuff. Then, we’ll see real change happen.
- talldayo 3y ago
  > The media needs to report, not suppress, this stuff. If media discards secularism, news becomes worthless. No organization that spans the trust of religious and non-religious audiences would acquiesce to the promotion of an arbitrary religion - I doubt you'd support what you're asking for if it treated Muslim revelations with equal weight. Regardless, showing people at mass on TV will not solve food inequity or goodwill towards mankind (ask me how I know; I grew up in Detroit). Your heart is in the right place, but compared to the "struggling families" you've described, you might be the least functional of them all. You require the illusory promise of salvation to persist; denying it for you is almost like killing your own ego. You flip-flop between counterintuitive stances based on what the bible or the ecclesiastics say is right. Perhaps your own notion of morality and logic is stunted, because you're dependent on the word of others to interpret reality for you. In a world full of realized problems and pragmatic failures of the human condition, faith is the least realistic framework for actually fixing our world. Convincing people to reject personal willpower and self-righteousness is how you kill the individual and create a mentally-neutered sycophant.
  - tsegratis 3y ago
    Thankyou @talldayo, it is lovely to hear from you > promotion of an arbitrary religion Truth is in short supply. I think in secularism, and the religions as you described, people push their own advantage, rather than an independent truth. But the idea that our ultimate goal is truth -- i.e. truth is God, God is truth: This is the only truly trustable source; since anyone who places something higher than truth, such as life, will sacrifice truth to get that. So considering God, to be truth can be the only fully trustworthy position This is quite different to your conceptualization > you might be the least functional of them all "If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied" 1cor15. So Yes :) > you're dependent on the word of others to interpret reality for you I really really appreciate your feedback!! However I would attest to many many personal revelations and observed miracles to the point i would consider myself insane not to believe. i.e. It is very much personal choice I appreciate your other comments too, but my reply is already long