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Sin is Easy and Abnormal

November 4, 2019 By Jeff Leave a Comment

Oops, I spoiled the ending. Sin is Easy and Abnormal. Christians sometimes don’t understand this simple concept. False doctrine easily can be created from variations of this simple phrase. For example, sin is hard and abnormal. Sin is easy and normal. Sin is hard and normal. The last example does take a lot of faith to believe. Unfortunately many people in the Church believe in these false doctrines.

Let’s start with the most obvious variation to debunk. Sin is hard and normal. This belief you must suspend reality. If the concept of sin is a normal reaction in life why would it be hard? So, if you as a Christian believe sin takes up a normal place in this world then why would it be hard to execute normal desires? If sin is natural reaction to free will then why when you are a Christian those desires are hard to execute? There is no good answers to these questions.

Let’s take on the idea that sin is easy and normal. These Christians can easily be consumed by the world. Why fight against a normal phenomenon? They start believing that they are free to sin instead of free from sin. These Christians don’t understand how destructive sin is. They are not don’t show the light in the darkness but actually need people into the darkness. Christian and non-Christians alike. Agnostics are spawned by these hypocrites. Tear apart their ideology and make sure you do this when you disciple agnostics.

Now to the anxiety inducing sin is hard and abnormal. These Christians have to concept of sin right but they don’t understand its allure. They believe once you become a Christian you should not get tempted. Ironically it is the opposite. A Christian who spreads the light of Christ is a threat to the darkness. Every time this type of Christian sins the question whether they were ever a Christian. This creates a spiral of anxiety. “I sin therefore I’m not a true Christian.” These people are stuck in the baby phase of being a Christian.

Sin is easy. Sin is easy because it is readily available and doesn’t take too much thought. Any instant where you put yourself above God sin is a quick solution. The world constantly temps you. You need to be at a church that equips you. Also you need to be in constant prayer and seek accountability to others. You need to know the bible and be able to have a defense for Christ. If sin was hard this is not necessary. Seek a church that gives you solid food.

Sin is abnormal. Sin is against the design and purpose of God. It wasn’t created as a natural phenomenon by nature. We rebelled against our creator. Jesus didn’t die for something that was normal. The cost of sin is death. That would be a ridiculous cost if it was for something that is normal. Normalcy should not be determined by the amount of people who do it. This is how cultures devolve into chaos. Sin is easy and abnormal. If we don’t recognize that as Christians we are in big trouble.

Whatever It Takes

September 30, 2019 By Jeff Leave a Comment

Why are we consistently doing the minimal as Christians? We see people head to the abyss without great concern. Christians are not doing whatever it takes for our culture and non-believers to not reach hell. We even raise hell upon them. Christendom isn’t a club. There is a culture out there that doesn’t allow for grace on social media. A culture without grace and love. We need to do whatever it takes for everyone to know Christ. You are not greater than persecution because our savior was persecuted for us.

Jude 1:23-24 (NASB):
"And have mercy on some,
who are doubting; save others,
snatching them out of the fire;
and on some have mercy with
fear, hating even the garment 
polluted by the flesh."

Our culture is constantly creating agnostics by horrible experiences at church. People, many times, have a bad experience at church. There is always a hypocrite that doesn’t exemplify the love of Christ. Many of these people doubt the existence of God because of how broken his people are. We need to pursue these people. Show Christ is greater then the sin’s of people. Shine a light on the heresy of the sin’s of the people who take God’s name in vain. When we don’t darkness wins. We have to keep pursuing whatever it takes.

This cancel culture is destroying us. It is even affecting the church. We offer no grace to people who have said horrible things on social media. These people get turned into foils for a belief we want to conquer instead of a heart we want to win. Don’t let the low hanging fruit of regretful post destroy your witness. Give grace when needed. Be relentless in the pursuit of forgiveness.

We have to be watchful to not turn church into a masquerade. Covering up you sin at church only makes it stronger and relentless away from church. A doctor doesn’t tell you to pretend a wound doesn’t exist. Why should we as Christians to the same for sin? This ties into what I talked about above. Only this time the world sees the church members roaming around in their natural habitat. We need to do whatever it takes to be accountable to each other, whether we like it or not.

We will be persecuted by doing whatever it takes to pursue others for Christ . When we are persecuted we should count it as gain. Jesus was persecuted as well as the apostles. Our church is afraid of push-back so our culture is pushed into darkness. You will meet opposition when you face the lies that our pagan culture has promoted. Look at the culture in front of you. Do you see the church doing whatever it takes?

Christians Not Knowing The Enemy

September 9, 2019 By Jeff Leave a Comment

Christians in our culture sometimes lack the understanding of the enemy. We face a culture where we value our own truth. Many times our own truth conflicts with the character of God. The real enemy is our own truth instead of not knowing the truth. The greatest threat to the Church and the world is God hatred verses unbelief. Ironically you see God hatred in church’s across the world. They reject the true nature of God and create their own version of God. If you hate the attributes of God you must, well you know.

Our fight is not against people who don’t believe in Jesus. The fight is against those who want to persecute him. I’m not saying the fight is against people but it is a fight against ideologies. Our church, at times, is good at equipping us to evangelize to the unbelievers. We are equipped to evangelize to an non-existent enemy. The culture decays while the people who persecuting the ideals of God are encountered without a fight.

People who are in opposition to God are offended by the truth. They hate the feeling that they are not God of their own lives. The enemy tries to destroy whatever takes away their pride. The truth is felt as a constraint instead of freedom from the bondage of sin. You hear celebrities and political figures state, “live your own truth.” On the surface that sounds freeing but it is far from it.

The phrase, “live your own truth,” is satisfying at first. If Christians define that as destructive they go to far with you. This saying becomes their ebenezer. God’s truth eventually is an assault of their secular religion. The Light is offensive. In the light they see their sins for what they are. Therefore, the Light is their enemy. The truth of Christ becomes their enemy.

The doctrine of, “live your own truth,” has infiltrated the Church. I seen scripture get manipulated to fit viewpoints. Many people say, “This is not my God.” This can be in reference to many things. Divine judgement, lifestyle, or anything in conflict with the Word of God. The is done by Scripture Hopping, eliminating parts of the bible as relevant, or just simply ignoring scripture. We should fear the church running in opposition to the Creator.

We need to confront the truth. The real enemy is hating the truth of God. We have to be aware of this problem in the Church. Our church needs to be equipping people to battle against the ideologies that oppose God. We are failing as a culture. We surely are in need of a revival.

Too Many Gods

May 21, 2019 By Jeff Leave a Comment

Some Christians in our culture worship many gods. This can be wealth, personality, doctrine, and many more. The passive nature of our church leads to worshiping gods. If we are not active in the great commission and centering your life around Jesus many things fill the gap. What do we value and how do we value it.

A big issue in our culture is the cult of personality. We don’t look at these people as human that can make mistakes. Once a leader in the church declares something as true people go along with them. They put the relationship to the person above the Truth. Everyone is bound to the truth regardless of personality or authority.

Another one of the gods people worship is wealth. They put success as a measuring stick of holiness. Wealth is shown as a reward. This is a trap. Wealth is viewed as an end instead of an opportunity. Living with Christ is the only real measurement of success.

If a church doesn’t have a central goal people will create there own. The goal should be equipping people for the great commission. When this isn’t the goal then we put practices and doctrine in place of the great commission. Soon these practices overshadow the One in which the church was made for. At this point we create gods. A truth we fail to see is that inaction can lead to this. We get so comfortable in the world we created that we forsake the real world. Not good.

The solution for this is to put Christ at the center of our church. Our goal is not to bring people to church. It is to make people part of the Church. This sounds like the same but it is far from it. Church attendance doesn’t increase Christianity. It may increase church income though. The latter part is us leading people to Christ to be part of His Church. Let’s not create gods in place of the one true God.

Fear To Preach

February 14, 2019 By Jeff Leave a Comment

We are living in a culture where we are afraid to preach the truth. Also teachers are afraid to turn away potential church goers. Teachers are in a constant state of fear. They give milk to the congregation because it is universally accepted. We don’t preach what is needed and what is relevant to convict us. Many people run to the darkness cause they are afraid of the light.

There is not an equal correlation from conviction to not accepting Christ. Church leaders are afraid to preach things that convict people. People who are not Christians don’t know the Truth. I’m not talking about preaching from generally held truths. One example: not to worship a carved image. That is not a cultural problem. One the other hand, worshiping Hollywood celebrities is a far too common practice. Church leaders do not get relevant in preaching out of fear of turning off people to Christ.

I have discussed in past blogs the problem of giving milk to the congregation. Many times the reason is also due to fear. Something substantial always has backlash. There are many church leaders who try to convict a pastor for the substance. Job security, unfortunately, is tied to given people what they want to hear. The job of the congregation is to make disciples. A pastor’s job is to shepard the congregation. His job is not equip the congregation for outreach. The pastor shouldn’t appease the lowest common denominator but to lead their flock.

Unfortunately, even Christians don’t like the truth. Anything that rattles us to the core we are afraid of and hate. We should constantly be rattled. Every time a pastor preaches we should be rattled. Our leaders should recognize this and understand it. We cannot truly change the culture and the world when we can’t preach convicting messages. Church should make us feel good about ourselves. It should make us equipped, to strip away all the filth we see in the Light of God.