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Rant: Placating and Passifying an Adulterous Generation

8 July 2009 148 views One Comment Print This Post Print This Post Email This Post Email This Post

I’m irate.

I’m growing very concerned, and even sick to my stomach over trends I see around me in the world of the Church.

I am a 37 year old pastor who once considered himself to be moderately conservative, but am deeply concerned to know that others around me view me now as ultra conservative.

In a day when my “moderate” views are viewed as the far-right, and those who once were considered liberal becoming the new conservative…

In a day when ministry is placating to the whim and carnality of an adulterous generation…

In a day when churches and pastors appear more concerned about crowds and conversion rates than souls and disciples…

In a day when postmodernism and deconstructionism are supplanting long-held, time-tested Biblical truths and methods…

In a day when sin is overlooked, conviction-preaching is traded for bless-you sermons, and “old-timers” are no longer a voice of reason…

I’m sick to my stomach.

Keep your crowds of itching ears…
Keep your sin-stained garments…
Keep your self-righteous, piety wrapped in the facade of humility…
Keep your honey-dripped, wooing call to slip away from holiness…

Leave me out of it.

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  • Steve Smith said:

    Well said, my friend. Well said.

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