HEBREWS 5:12-13 THE VOICEI am often caught off guard when I hear people older than me, who have been attending church longer than I have, misrepresent the truth that is found in Scripture. I know that I am ignorant to various biblical truths which is why I study so much, ask so many questions, and pray a lot! More often than not, I have been teaching a class of ‘mature’ Believers only to discover the student’s foundation of faith is not solid- they are still babies.
By this time, you ought to be teachers yourselves, yet I feel like you want me to reteach you the most basic things that God wants you to know. It’s almost like you’re a baby again, coddled at your mother’s breast, nursing, not ready for solid food. No one who lives on milk alone can know the ins and outs of what it means to be righteous and pursue justice; that’s because he is only a baby.
Preaching should be proclaiming the Word not telling people what to think. Once upon a time people brought their personal Bibles to church and read from it as the Pastor spoke. To many churches today make it easy for people not to study their Bibles thus we have generations of individuals quoting ”Pastor” and not Yeshua!
2 TIMOTHY 4:2Today’s churches provide distractions in the form of “family centered” activities but do not promote godly lifestyles. Instead of teaching about spiritual warfare the church provides a Halloween alternative to make sure the children do not miss out on getting candy or dressing up- thereby raising more spiritually ignorant people. Couples activities promote unity to those who just need a marriage tune-up. Statistically speaking these “activities” do not address the needs of the entire church body: spousal abuse, abortion, homosexuality, adultery even gluttony and drug addiction are barely mentioned if at all. The bigger the church, the more activities the less the needs of the people who need help are met- IT IS MY OPINION-please prove me wrong. Yeshua taught us to go after the one, today’s churches focus on the 99.
Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.
LUKE 15:4Sugar coated words are coming from the pulpit and Bible Study classes are more social gatherings than Scripture learning contribute to the lack of knowledge plaguing today’s Believers. There is no motivation for people to seek the Truth. Yeshua said:
“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it?
MARK 12:29-31Two things we should be doing. FIRST: Loving YHWH with all of our heart, soul and mind. This means YHWH, GOD, should be a priority every day not just on Saturday or Sunday. SECOND: We should love our neighbor as you love yourself, giving yourself things is not loving yourself it is adorning yourself. Unfortunately, God’s definition of love and man’s definition of love have two different meanings with man’s love being the most popular.
Jesus answered him, “The first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
Babies demand their own way. Baby Christians see GOD as a demanding being who has a lot of rules that are hard to follow. God’s rules are not burdensome anymore than the rules our parents had for us as we were growing up, at least there were rules a few generations ago. Today far to many parents are giving in to the demands of their children, catering to their every whim- the church is doing the same.
It is easy to be a baby Christian in many churches today. As I listen to Christians I see the consequences of sugar coated preaching.
MATTHEW 7:21Many people live a comfortable life but they do not live their best life because they don’t know the full gospel. Church attendance is not about being entertained it is about learning YHWH’s requirements for living on earth as they live in heaven.
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
written by Marsha L F Randolph
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I am often forced to adjust how I communicate with adults because they do not possess the maturity to hear various truths. Even in my tax preparation business- people do not want to hear what they do not know because they do not want to be accountable.
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