"Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car." -Laurence Peter
If you put your confidence in your church or your pastor, you have a false confidence. Your pastor cannot save you, and neither can your church. Most pastors today don't even preach directly from Jesus' teachings. They preach a watered down message, mostly using the epistles, particularly Paul's letters. See if I'm not right the next time you hear a sermon preached from the pulpit. It will most likely be from one of the epistles, and it will be a thirty minute sermon based on 3 or 4 verses. Its rare for a preacher to actually preach the things that Jesus said, and obviously these are the central teachings of Christianity
You can't do Christianity without the words of Christ
Before we learn anything else, or teach anything else, we need to know and understand what Jesus said in order to be His disciples. The gospels need to be our primary focus. I'm not saying we ignore the epistles - obviously we shouldn't - but the real core and power of Christianity is in the gospel accounts. If we had to choose between epistles and gospels, gospels would certainly be the right choice. We don't have to choose, but we do have to get the most important part right - that being Jesus' words, mostly found in the gospels. And, if your faith is not based on the fact that you know and understand Jesus' words, then you have a false sense of security. Open your Bible and read.
This is what angers me most about supposed Christian churches, besides them not even calling themselves Christian but going by a denominational name. Churches and preachers teach and preach things that are either false, not completely true, or watered down. By doing so they are leading many people into a complacent Churchianity. Its not Christianity, and the people in the pews are even at risk of eternal damnation. The worst part about it is that they don't realize it. Its a deception that tells people they are saved when in reality they aren't. And from thinking they're saved, they make no effort to actually become saved. From the faith put in pastors and denominational churches, millions of people are not seeking to find the truth and salvation from Jesus, because they think they already have it. Make no mistake here: If your preacher is not preaching the words of Jesus, coming directly from the red letters, then he is not preaching Christianity.
If you put your confidence in your church or your pastor, you have a false confidence. Your pastor cannot save you, and neither can your church. Most pastors today don't even preach directly from Jesus' teachings. They preach a watered down message, mostly using the epistles, particularly Paul's letters. See if I'm not right the next time you hear a sermon preached from the pulpit. It will most likely be from one of the epistles, and it will be a thirty minute sermon based on 3 or 4 verses. Its rare for a preacher to actually preach the things that Jesus said, and obviously these are the central teachings of Christianity
You can't do Christianity without the words of Christ
Before we learn anything else, or teach anything else, we need to know and understand what Jesus said in order to be His disciples. The gospels need to be our primary focus. I'm not saying we ignore the epistles - obviously we shouldn't - but the real core and power of Christianity is in the gospel accounts. If we had to choose between epistles and gospels, gospels would certainly be the right choice. We don't have to choose, but we do have to get the most important part right - that being Jesus' words, mostly found in the gospels. And, if your faith is not based on the fact that you know and understand Jesus' words, then you have a false sense of security. Open your Bible and read.
This is what angers me most about supposed Christian churches, besides them not even calling themselves Christian but going by a denominational name. Churches and preachers teach and preach things that are either false, not completely true, or watered down. By doing so they are leading many people into a complacent Churchianity. Its not Christianity, and the people in the pews are even at risk of eternal damnation. The worst part about it is that they don't realize it. Its a deception that tells people they are saved when in reality they aren't. And from thinking they're saved, they make no effort to actually become saved. From the faith put in pastors and denominational churches, millions of people are not seeking to find the truth and salvation from Jesus, because they think they already have it. Make no mistake here: If your preacher is not preaching the words of Jesus, coming directly from the red letters, then he is not preaching Christianity.
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