'Pastor Inc.' takes over the American church
Prophecy Sign: Growing apostasy within the Church
'Pastor Inc.' takes over the American church
So what does you Church believe in? What does your pastor preach from the pulpit? Is it all about being best buddies with Jesus and how he will make your life wonderful and materially blessed. Does your church make causes such as world peace and poverty eradication more important that being saved from sin? Does your church welcome with open arms those people from the Homosexual/Transgender community without asking them to change their ways? If you have answered yes to all of the above, then we suggest you find another church that preaches Christ crucified once for all, (Hebrews 10:10). Otherwise, your church is just another member of the growing apostate religion that calls itself Christian, (it is nothing of the sort).
For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 2 Timothy 4:3 NIV
For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 2 Timothy 4:3 NIV
'Pastor Inc.' takes over the American church
Trueman started this way: “This month, I thought I would use
this column to indulge in a little thought experiment. What, I wonder, if the
conservative evangelical church world came to be dominated by a symbiotic
network of high profile and charismatic leaders (think more Weber than Wimber),
media organizations and big conferences? What if leadership, doctrine and
policy were no longer rooted in the primacy of biblical polity and the local
church? What if, in other words, all of this became a function of an
Evangelical Industrial Complex?”
What we have now in Christian publishing (as Carl Trueman so
eloquently put it) is an Evangelical Industrial Complex, of which the general
public knows very little. The leaders perpetuate their own marketing machines
and control the message. That’s why you will see the Evangelical community in America
Are religious progressives poised to outnumber faithful
conservatives? This new study might surprise you.
Will religious progressives soon overtake conservatives in
size and scope? Traditionally, the proportion of the faithful with
right-of-center views has been much larger than its leftist counterpart,
however a new study from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and the
left-leaning Brookings Institute shows that there could be growth among
religious progressives in years to come. The results found that,
currently, 28 percent of Americans are religious conservatives, 19 percent are
religious progressives and 38 percent are religious moderates. Additionally, as
has been consistently found, 15 percent of Americans consider themselves
non-religious.
“Our new research shows a complex religious landscape, with
religious conservatives holding an advantage over religious progressives in
terms of size and homogeneity,” explained
Dr. Robert P. Jones, CEO of PRRI. Despite this advantage, though, Jones noted
that the proportion of religious conservatives has shrunk over the generations
and that Millennials — today’s young Americans — are more progressive than they
are conservative.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/22/are-religious-progressives-poised-to-outnumber-faithful-conservatives-this-new-study-might-surprise-you/
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