{"id":798,"date":"2015-04-15T14:25:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T14:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/?p=798"},"modified":"2015-08-21T11:12:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T11:12:21","slug":"the-church-triumphantly-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/?p=798","title":{"rendered":"The Church \u201cTriumphantly\u201d Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Church\"<\/a>Why are professing Christians so passive during an unprecedented encroachment of evil on Christian liberty in America?\u00a0 There are the standard reasons.\u00a0 They are apathetic, weak, backslidden, hypocritical, etc.\u00a0\u00a0 We could make a case for one or all of those things.<\/p>\n

I also believe that many professing Christians abhor any negative information, especially what they believe to be \u201cdoom and gloom.\u201d\u00a0 They\u2019ve shut their minds to everything relative to eschatology.\u00a0 Thus, they cannot recognize historical precursors for full-scale violent persecution.\u00a0 A large faction believes that Christ is going to \u201ccome and get us before all the bad stuff happens.\u201d\u00a0 They refuse to recognize that \u201cbad stuff\u201d, including the wanton slaughter of Christians, is already occurring in other nations.<\/p>\n

However, I believe that there is another major underlying factor that may be responsible for all the other factors resulting in obstinate passivity.\u00a0 And it is simple.\u00a0 There is no threat to their status quo.<\/p>\n

Most professing Christians \u201cgo to church\u201d and listen to sermons.\u00a0 That\u2019s what they do to no viable end.\u00a0 They get the family ready on Sunday morning and they head to a church building.\u00a0 When they get back home, they put it behind them like a dental visit.\u00a0 They watch sports on TV, go fishing, play golf, shop, and basically reward themselves for \u201cdoing church.\u201d\u00a0 Most of them do not attend the Sunday night meeting, if their church has one.\u00a0 In other words, the Sunday morning event has minimal impact in their lives.\u00a0 It simply satisfies the inherent urge to be religious.<\/p>\n

Monday through Friday, they focus on the cares of life with little or no expression of Christianity.\u00a0 Saturday, they enjoy the day off.\u00a0 Sunday rolls around and it\u2019s off to the church building again.\u00a0 It is the stuff of \u201chearers-only\u201d religion.<\/p>\n

So where\u2019s the threat?\u00a0 So what if the militant Homosexual\/Progressive Liberal Movement attacks a Christian florist, cake maker, or some other Christian business.\u00a0 The congress passes so-called hate crime and anti-discrimination laws intrusive to Christians.\u00a0 So what?\u00a0 Radical atheists get angry about nativity scenes.\u00a0 Department stores refuse to say \u201cMerry Christmas.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0Some bank teller gets fired for saying, \u201cHave a blessed day.\u201d\u00a0 The Ten Commandments are removed from a courthouse.\u00a0 So what?\u00a0 New Age paganism is a swarming invasion.\u00a0 Entire denominations are succumbing to Contemplative Spirituality.\u00a0 So what?\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t even slightly hinder the routine of \u201cgoing to church\u201d on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Therefore, even though there is a concerted effort to force acceptance of the homosexual agenda on the workplace, the marketplace, public education, churches, government, military, and you name it, it does not significantly hinder the status quo.\u00a0 Professing Christians can still \u201cgo to church,\u201d hear sermons, and coast along enjoying their \u201cbest life now.\u201d \u00a0Warned repeatedly about the invasion of heresy in the church, and the rapid declension of culture into hedonism, they refuse to process the information as a threat.<\/p>\n

\"Guys<\/a>The fact is, far too many professing Christians consider the diabolical intrusions as “much ado about nothing.”\u00a0 Everything goes on as before.\u00a0 Besides, they do not actually practice Christianity in public anyway.\u00a0 So where\u2019s the loss in having something pilfered that you never bothered to use?<\/p>\n

You know what\u2019s really pathetic?\u00a0 We have history to inform us about the pattern that evil employs to gain dominance over and then persecute Christians. But people do not (or refuse to) recognize the first step by Christophobes toward abolishing our liberty.\u00a0 It is to poke the sleeping giant.\u00a0 What I mean is they begin by caricaturing and then challenging public expressions of Christianity.\u00a0 \u00a0If the giant does not awaken, they go a step further and remove liberties by legislation.\u00a0 They continue to poke and gouge as long as the giant sleeps.\u00a0 Eventually, the giant is so full of holes (liberties lost) and its hide so bound to stakes (rules and laws) that when it finally awakens, it has little or no power to do anything other than moan.<\/p>\n

The sleeping giant is of course Christianity.\u00a0 It is a massive subdued, ritualistic, apathetic, hireling-infiltrated, spiritually anemic, and heresy-poisoned monstrosity composed mostly of professing Christians who have no concept of true Christianity.\u00a0 Further they have no interest in theology other than sound-bite explanations of what separates them from other Christian factions.\u00a0 They have no idea of where their doctrines came from, or the scriptural paths that produced them.\u00a0\u00a0 All is well if they can only \u201cgo to church\u201d under a specific title, hear a sermon, and go home.<\/p>\n

The millennials with their mega-churches and New Age \u201cchurch\u201d have a worse problem.\u00a0 They believe they have superior Christianity because they have shaken off the old garments of traditionalism and are breathing the fumes of Spiritual Formation.\u00a0 Wrong.\u00a0 They only poured old contaminated wine in new wine skins.\u00a0 It is still about maintaining a status quo.<\/p>\n

What they all fail to realize is that \u201cgoing to church\u201d will be the last Christian indulgence to be banished.\u00a0 At the moment, they can \u201cgo\u201d all they want as long as they don\u2019t attempt to \u201cdo\u201d anything Christ-like in society.\u00a0 While that status quo is maintained, a furious attack on \u201cdoers\u201d is underway.\u00a0 The \u201chearers-only\u201d placidly look the other way.<\/p>\n

I believe that when the time comes to drive a wooden stake in the heart of the giant, the \u201chearers only\u201d will applaud the decision.\u00a0 The reason?\u00a0 Because Christianity will be replaced with an ecumenical world religion that will eliminate any threat to their status quo.\u00a0 The government will slide out the old, battered, and heresy-fragmented shell of Christianity, and slip in place a new, human-centered, ecumenical religion benign to culture, atheism, and all else that opposes righteousness.\u00a0 It will preserve their \u201cchurch-going\u201d indulgence.\u00a0 The millennials with their Seeker-Friendly, Emergent, Ecumenical, New Age, New Apostolic, Spiritual Formation, etc., are leading the way and assisting in the process.<\/p>\n

When the One-World religion is set in place, the \u201cchurch-going, hearers-only\u201d folks, clinging to their venerated paradigm, will breathe a bated sigh of relief.\u00a0 They will not have lost anything.\u00a0 What will be destroyed they never possessed.\u00a0 Their ritual was their faith.\u00a0 It was the crux of their belief system, the sum of their duty to whom they deem as God.\u00a0 Killing the battered giant will not matter to them anymore than knocking a fish in the head with a stick.<\/p>\n

That is why they are so passive today.\u00a0 There is nothing in their superficial understanding of Christianity that is considered expensive enough to stand up for and defend.\u00a0 Their pastors could switch present theology for another one on any given Sunday and they would neither recognize nor care.\u00a0 It\u2019s the status quo that matters.\u00a0 Come into the building, breeze through a short burst of fellowship, enjoy the \u201cworship\u201d music, endure a short message, relish the mild inebriation of the meeting\u2019s end, rush to the food, and enjoy life with God in the distant background\u2014a paradigm of the church \u201ctriumphantly\u201d dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why are professing Christians so passive during an unprecedented encroachment of evil on Christian liberty in America?\u00a0 There are the standard reasons.\u00a0 They are apathetic, weak, backslidden, hypocritical, etc.\u00a0\u00a0 We could make a case for one or all of those things. I also believe that many professing Christians abhor any negative information, especially what they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paIm2N-cS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}