What else can be expected when fewer than 10 out of every 100 professed Christians read the Holy Bible? According to the most accurate, reliable, accountable faith-based surveys and polls, only 9% of professed Christians read God’s Word on a regular basis. Fewer than that on a daily basis.
The majority think going to church is all that matters. That the Roman Catholic faith is the leading form of Christianity and the pope is somehow holy. That the pope is the head of the church. News flash — the pope, no pope has or will enter into heaven until and unless they have been truly born from above, born again. Do you witness the fruit that any of them have borne, that the current pope bears showing evidence of being born again?
How awful of me to write this? Well, that’s my point. If Bible fluent, Scripture literate, and believing every word within God’s Word you would then know what I wrote isn’t personal opinion or my just having something against the pope. What I wrote is according to God’s Word.
Period.
Too bad so few people actually believe all that is written within the Holy Bible and actually open it, read it, study it, pray upon it, and meditate upon its words.
Because everything would be a whole lot different if even a few more folks would do that. Daily. Earnestly. Faithfully. Believing. And then living it out boldly. Unafraid to speak, write, live out the LORD’S truth and words.
Imagine if that happened.
Oh my, oy vey! What a world that would be.
Instead, we have the apostate church. The worldly church. The lost fake church. Inhabited by pretenders, charlatans, and false teachers.
It is now rare — it wasn’t always like this and this is in fact a recent development — to find sound teaching, Bible preaching, Bible beleiving ministers, reverends, and pastors in churches professing to have their origins in being Christ followers, Christians.
The apostate church, the rise of false teachers, and their worldly unsound anti-God, anti-Bible, anti-gospel messages are something that have arisen to the point they have over the past 60 or 70 years. Culminating in what we have presently.
A remnant, a shrinking remnant of soundness, of truth, of righteousness in God’s ways, in God’s Word.
Do you think Jesus was just killing time, adding idle talk when He asked if when He returned He would find any faithful on the earth?
It is glorious and wonderful that in these last of the very last days, more and more Muslims and Jews are coming to the LORD Jesus Christ, Yeshua Hamashicah than ever before in history. All the glory to God!
And there are, there have been spurts and spits of a little revival here, a little revival there among Gentiles. But while that has occurred the gleaning of the chaff, the revealing of the false teachers, and The Great Falling Away that will usher in the return of the LORD to gather His Church to Him — the Rapture — and once that occurs the revealing of the Antichrist and his false prophet to the world thrown into mayhem and chaos as the believers that were have been removed.
The overwhelming majority of what passes for The Church today is one of appeasing the world. Accommodating sin. Approving of every sin. In grave error in their personal interpretation of God’s Word. Which is to appease, accommodate, and approve of everything in the world in order to please the darkness rather than obey the Light. Rather than being the light in this dark evil world.
When the body has this much disease within it the only way to healing, health, restoration, relief, renewing, and reviving is to finally hear, obe,y and serve the Head — the LORD Jesus Christ, Yeshua Hamashiach.
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Ken Pullen, Monday, March 17th, 2025
The Church Is Called To Influence The Culture, Not Be A Reflection Of It
March 17, 2025
By J. Warner Wallace
Reprinted from Harbinger’s Daily
Sometimes, it feels like we, as Christians living in the twenty-first century, are the first to find ourselves surrounded by a culture that seems to reject much of what we believe. Of course, nothing could be farther from the truth. The earliest Christians, struggling to survive in the first century, were surrounded by a far more hostile culture. In spite of the obstacles and challenges, this group continued to grow, unlike the present Church in America, which appears to be shrinking each and every year. What’s the difference between these two groups? One important distinction is simply the response each group expressed (and is currently expressing) toward the culture in which they live(d). The first century Church was a thermostat, while the twenty-first century Church (in America, at least) is often little more than a thermometer.
Thermostats control the temperature, while thermometers simply reflect it. The first century Church was well trained by its Master. Jesus told the earliest disciples and followers that they needed to resist the temptation to simply reflect the temperature of their culture: “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men.” (Matthew 5:13)
Jesus told his followers to set the tone for the world around them. To change the flavor of the culture rather than simply adopt the flavor of their first century environment. We are salt. And we are light: “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.” (Matthew 5:14-16)
Light guides and exposes. Jesus’ command to be “light” assumes two things. It assumes the world around us is dark and needs light, and it assumes the practices and beliefs of the culture are misguided and need correcting. That’s why we need to be thermostats rather than thermometers. We are called to set the tone, add truth to the culture, shine a light on the darkness and guide people to something better. The Church is at a crucial point of decision. We can acquiesce, shrink in silence, or stand tall in spite of the consequences. Jesus called his followers to do the latter. That’s why he did his best to prepare them for the reaction they would surely receive from the culture: “If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.” (John 15:18-19)
There would be no reason to prepare His followers for persecution if Jesus intended them to either compromise or remain silent. He must want something more from us as His ambassadors. He must want us to do the right thing, not the easy thing.
But we can’t (and won’t) do anything if we aren’t sure about what we believe and why our beliefs are true. Sadly, it seems many of us are willing to compromise and reflect the views of the culture (like thermometers) rather than attempt to impact the world for Christ (like thermostats). Thermometers don’t effect change, they simply record it. Jesus never took this approach, and He never advocated such an approach for His disciples. Christ followers are called to be uncompromising change agents. That’s why it’s time for all of us to be thermostats rather than thermometers.
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