Two Thirds of the People in Your Church Are Going to Hell, and You Might be One of Them.
In 2012 a Gallup poll echoed the findings of a 2010 census poll that showed that 77% of the US population is Christian, but I believe that both of those polls are wrong.
A more thorough poll earlier this year conducted by the American Culture & Faith Institute determined that 67% of self-professing, Bible believing Christians, who sit in church every Sunday do not believe that Jesus is the only way to salvation.
Therefore, 67% or 2/3 of the people in your church, are going to hell.
But wait a minute, those people believe in Jesus for their own salvation, just not for everyone else. So, they are good, right?
No, they are not!
In order to receive salvation through Jesus, you have to believe, not in your head, but in your heart, that He is the only way…He told us He was the only way in John 14:6.
So, either you believe that Jesus is the only way or you believe that He was lying. If He was lying then He was a sinner, and if He was a sinner then He was not worthy of dying for your sins. If He did not die for your sins then you can kiss heaven goodbye because at that point you are depending on yourself and you are definitely not good enough, none of us are. If you think you are because you are a pretty good person, then you really don’t understand what it means to be a Christian.
Sitting in church every Sunday will not ensure your salvation.
Teaching Sunday school will not ensure your salvation.
Volunteering to be an usher will not ensure your salvation.
Being a pastor will not ensure your salvation.
Writing a clever blog will not ensure your salvation.
Only complete trust in Jesus can ensure your salvation.
Jesus said, I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Seek Jesus, and only Jesus.
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Lord, Lord…you never knew me.
Lord, Lord…you never knew me.
To me, there are no more frightening verses in the Bible than Matthew 7:21-27.
The thought of thinking you were living a good life and doing the church thing only to find out that you were never actually saved, is terrifying.
Today, I believe, we are seeing an up swell in people who will fit this category. The person who sat in church every Sunday, but never really believed, never really trusted in God. People who have decided that they know better than the word of God.
Matthew 7 makes it very clear that it will not turn out well for these people. And it makes me sad.
This article from Faith Family America perfectly shows people who are sprinting towards this reality.
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Christians, please stop telling your children Bible stories.
When most of us were children we heard in school the story about how a young George Washington after receiving a hatchet from his father cut down a cherry tree. When confronted about who cut down the tree the young Washington declared that he could not tell a lie and admitted to the act, which only made his father proud of him because of his honesty.
When we got older we found out that this well-known story was, in fact, a lie, which, ironically, contradicts the moral of the story.
We tell children stories to entertain them, we tell stories to get them to go to sleep, or we tell them stories to teach them a moral lesson, and then, when they tell us a lie, we ask them if they are telling us a story.
The word story for a kid generally has the meaning of something that is not true…something that is made up. It can be difficult for young minds to know the difference.
So, we Christians, need to stop telling our children, who we want to grow up to be Bible believing adults, Bible stories.
We want them to know that everything we are telling them about the Bible is true and not associate biblical truth with made up stories of their youth.
In Sunday school, we regale them with the sensational story of Noah and his big zoo boat and then when they get older neglect to explain to them how that is the most likely story of how the Grand Canyon was formed and probably what killed the dinosaurs.
At Easter, we allow stories of the Easter bunny to dominate the narrative because the story of Jesus dying on the cross is too difficult to explain to such young ears.
At Christmas, we include stories about Santa Claus because secular society has adopted that aspect of Christmas and at least we can get some semblance of acceptance on a national level, but of course we get angry when those same people, who deny Christ the other 364 days a year, refuse to say Merry Christmas rather than Happy Holidays.
The story of Noah is a wonderful story about a man who showed almost unequalled trust in God in the face of ridicule and hardship, and it is a great example of how we should trust God, but there is also a historical element to it, and actually a geological element to it that we completely ignore, which, in the end, makes it appear to be nothing more than allegory.
It becomes just a nice children’s story that is fun for the kids when you pull out the felt board in Sunday School.
As adults both young and old, we ignore this story, because it’s maybe too much for us to believe. We often take a small God approach to these aspects of the Bible, because it’s just too difficult to explain.
We must find a way to differentiate between the fairy tales that children hear and the Bible stories that they are taught in church.
Now, I’m not saying that we need to pull out a copy of The Passion of the Christ at Easter and force a bunch of 6-year-old kids to sit through the torture scene, but we need to make it real, we need for it to be seen as history and not just another story, or even worse make it about something else like a giant bunny that delivers, and sometimes hides, eggs and candy.
This means that we must deal with the difficult questions about the Bible, we can’t just glaze over it.
The answers are there, but we must be willing to go find them and make sure that our children don’t think that the Bible stories they heard as a kid were not just an attempt to teach them a moral through a fantastic story.
So, Christians, please stop telling your children Bible stories, tell them Bible history.
PersistFaithfully...Getting Through Wednesday
Depending on who you believe, some researchers say that Wednesday is the most difficult day of the week. So here we are, Wednesday, hump day, the middle of most of our working week, and possibly your most difficult day and a good time to remember how important it is to persist faithfully in your Christian walk.
It is possible that the effects of Monday and Tuesday have made the boost you received on Sunday feel like a distant memory at this point in your week.
Traditionally, Wednesday is a time that many churches return for a service, a rejuvenation, to make it through the remainder of the week.
If your church, as with many others, no longer provides a Wednesday night service this is a great time to spend time with other believers so that you can become iron sharpened.
“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.
Proverbs 27:17”
This is a perfect time to spend time in a small group, a men’s or women’s group, with your spouse, or maybe with just God alone.
It is easy to fall prey to the temptations of this world, and even easier if you allow yourself to be pushed further and further away from that Sunday feeling.
“Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged,
for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.
Joshua 1:9”