What is your authority as a Christian? This question asks on what basis does the church make any spiritual decisions. Many churches and Christians have left the authority of God’s word and have allowed the culture to become their authority. I feel deeply that unless we allow God’s word to speak we will become just like any secular organization. The church has to be distinguished by the way she worships and by how she stands against the shifting winds of whatever the culture is asking the masses to conform to.
The Bible is not a story book for our amusement, no, the Bible is our daily food and drink. The Bible is God’s revelation to the church. When the church moves away from the authority of God’s word she moves away from God’s revealed will of Himself. The consequences of this departure from God’s word have taken an enormous spiritual impact on the church and in the lives of God’s people.
One reason for this departure from God’s authoritative word is the pride of man. Man wants to do things his way...so the church thinks that they can do church “better” than what God has said. Another reason for this departure from the authority of God’s word is the church wants to be “liked” by the world, so she courts the world and bows to whatever cultural moray is most popular at the present time. In the end what the departing church has become is a spiritual whore, she has left her husband and head to be married to another. The church and the world holding hands dirties the church and makes her unfaithful to her head.
Let the true church rise up and call out this spiritual adultery. Let the true church call out false teachers who by their fair speeches and dynamic personalities lead many to that place of destruction.
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