Instead, we have large churches that entertain their attendees who have little desire to be anything more than bodies in a pew nodding their head in bobble-head fashion in agreement with everything the appointed seminary-educated pastors say without question.
Most of the pew people do not bother to read their Bibles at home because they have been indoctrinated to believe that only the man in the pulpit can know the truth. I was actually told this one time by a friend many years ago. I disagreed with what a pastor was saying, only to be confronted with; "you can't know, you didn't go to seminary." I asked my friend a question, "Oh, you mean the Holy Spirit only goes to seminary?"
When the pew people sit bobble-headedly in the pew without response or interaction we end up with sleeping minds who are satisfied with having been in the pew, even if nothing of value happened there.
Is it any wonder God shut down the churches during this pandemic? He was trying to send a message that most of what passes for Christianity in our day is man-made and disgusting to God.
If anyone would take the time to evaluate everything that happens in these churchy-buildings up against the scriptures they would find out that not very much going on in them resembles the first century church. This is why God said we are in the days of apostasy, "everyone did what was right in their own eyes and no one would listen", was the comparison to the days of Noah.
We are there folks, blind, deaf, mute, and disinterested in truth, the churches meet every week getting their ritualistic high, having met their obligation to appear for appearance's sake, but dead as doornails. I pray for those in the church as much as I pray for lost souls to be saved since most who attend these gatherings are the lost.
2 Timothy 4:2-4 "…2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction. 3 For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. 4 So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.…"
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