Well said my brother.
Church is the place to feed sheep, not amuse goats. (Spurgeon said that)
In place of gospel preaching, this “new-and-improved” variety of Christianity was substituting amusements. Spurgeon warned that many were turning the church into a “play-house,” allowing the values and techniques of the theater to invade the sanctuary of the Lord.
Spurgeon noted that many churches were no longer having prayer meetings. Spiritual fervor was dwindling, congregations were thinning, and enthusiasm for the gospel was quickly becoming extinct. “Alas! many are returning to the poisoned cups which drugged that declining generation. . . . Too many ministers are toying with the deadly cobra of ‘another gospel,’ in the form of ‘modern thought.’”[26]
Who was chiefly to blame for the decline? Spurgeon believed it was the preachers: “The case is mournful. Certain ministers are making infidels. Avowed atheists are not a tenth as dangerous as those preachers who scatter doubt and stab at faith. . . . Germany was made unbelieving by her preachers, and England is following in her tracks.”[27]
Spurgeon made no effort to disguise his contempt for the modernists: “These destroyers of our churches appear to be as content with their work as monkeys with their mischief. That which their fathers would have lamented they rejoice in: the alienation of the poor and simple-minded from their ministry they accept as a compliment, and the grief of the spiritually-minded they regard as an evidence of their power.”[28]
http://www.spurgeon.org/downgrd.htm
THE DOWN-GRADE FORCED SPURGEON TO LEAVE THE BAPTIST UNION,THEY LOST,”THE PRINCE OF THE PREACHERS”.
WOE TO THEM,THEN AND OF COURSE NOW THEY ARE APOSTATE.
MY PRAYERS FOR YOU MY BRETHREN,IS SERVE THE KING,FEED THE FLOCK AND IF ANY MAN-CENTERED WALLS ARE CAUSING DIVISION WHERE YOU PRESENTLY ATTEND WORSHIP,LEAVE!
Ac 13:51 But they shook off the dust from their feet against them, and came to Iconium.
DO NOT JUST GO ALONG,TO GET ALONG!
SOON I’LL START TEACHING A NEW SERIES,TITLED “THE MARK OF A SAINT”
Where we live, it’s spiritually dry. I know God is working, at least in the spirit filled churches across the state, so I feel we are in for a revival. SOON LORD! We sure need one here. It’s been hard to witness, especially in college areas. But many Christian kids in our local college have started coming to our church and we have kids of all ethnic groups. There’s HOPE.