Posted on 12/10/2022 6:12:07 AM PST by ducttape45
Thoughts? Comments? Be kind and respectful please.
If the Apostle Paul were around today and looked at the state of the Church in America, we would be getting a letter.
I literally had a church leader tell me they wouldn’t stand against the state forcing them to close and limit services because they were worried about losing their 501C3 status.
Good article.
That ship has sailed!
Our nation paid a price for the evil of slavery ... 100s of thousands of Americans paid with their blood and limbs ... the nation has just recently mended from our civil war.
Since the CW, we have murdered millions of babies in the womb. We have legislated perversion. We have failed to protect the innocence of our children. Pedophiles are gaining political power. Legislators no longer represent what is good for the people.
It took a civil war to remedy slavery. In that war, the northern states held industrial, financial and military advantage over the south. Today, anti-Christ forces in our nation hold industrial, financial and military advantage over Christians and over those who support a republican form of government as outlined in the Constitution.
Not sure how our 'once republic' will finally end - but it wil end. God will not be mocked!
I dare say, if the Apostle Paul were around today, we'd get a lot more than a letter. I think he would channel the prophets of old, Jeremiah, Jonah, Ezekiel, etc, and give this nation the rebuke it so desperately needs. Not that anyone in leadership would listen, but I'd love to see their faces when he would say, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh (America) shall be overthrown."
Amen
Good read, thanks.
I would like to see the list of Republicans that voted in favor of this abomination.
God bless Jack Hibbs! He tells it like it is.
I'd say we've had two additional CWs. One in the 60s and now another one.
The 60s were a little hotter than now....but in 2020 it was pretty iffy as to what was going to happen next.
But to the issue of the legalized murder of the unborn....we're going to pay for that. In fact, I do think we're paying for it now.
The battle for the soul of America is a spiritual battle. The Lefts policies are largely anti-Christian, and Christians have been on a slow and steady retreat for decades. Defending Christian values on a secular level against satanic forces is ineffective.
God bless Jack Hibbs! He tells it like it is
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My church is one of those that succumbed to gubermint edict during the china virus scam. They lost me or I lost them during this “new normal”. Started listening to Jack Hibbs over the past year or so. He definitely tells it like it is. No sugar-coating so to not offend “certain” christians.
In a way my separation from my church has been a good thing because I don’t want luke warm ministry. I am still saddened how effectively the government was able to trample on churches and how willingly the churches went along with it.
It will not do for pastors to preach against the latest perversions of human sexuality - transgenderism and homosexuality. Before these surfaced as the latest Thing, two other perversions became widely settled within the rank and file of the Church: abortion and serial divorce and remarriage.
The general acceptance of these amongst Christians gave away the farm spiritually, and paved the way for current agendas of sexual perversion. It is rare to find pastors today who will routinely preach against abortion, and virtually none preaches against divorce. Cowardly pastors fear the financial consequences for themselves and the congregations they ostensibly shepherd.
Authentic repentance among pastors would necessarily include the following:
Luke warm Christians are promised a special place in hell. I wonder if they are aware of that?
Why would anybody suggest that only Pastors are in need of Repentance?
Amen to that.
Agreed. However, it is unlikely that this can happen apart from a prior repentance on the part of bona fide Christians. This, too, is unlikely apart from a similar repentance by pastors.
Why would anybody suggest that only Pastors are in need of Repentance?
Hmmm. Well the pattern of rebuke in the Old Testament is primarily upon the leaders of Israel, whose corruption results in corruption within the flocks over which they are shepherds. Similarly, St. Paul forsees a future apostasy amongst Christians as catalyzed by a prior apostasy of the Church's shepherds (cf. Acts20:30).
So, it would seem that repentance by the pastors is a necessary but (by itself) insufficient condition for national repentance.
Your wish list will never happen brandy. Oh you may have a couple of preachers that might like the idea but I suspect most people who actually attend a church won’t tolerate what you are demanding. Hard core christians such as you envision are few and far between today.
I never even thought of this, but YES. Those who should be leaders but don’t, need to step down or step it up. Great post.
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