Pulpit Fiction
How the Modern Church Is Endangering the Eternal Destiny of Its Followers
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Errant doctrines taught in the Modern Church promise believers that no matter how much sin they engage in, no matter how much about self they are, no matter what they believe in, no matter how they act, they remain saved. People, based on such errant teachings, live the life they want, not the life that God has called them to. Professing Christians in today’s churches often don’t have the Holy Spirit inspired conviction to avoid sin. Doctrines taught from the pulpit often reinforce this. This is totally contrary to what Christ did for us and what Christ taught us. This tolerance of sin, indeed the expectation of sin, has worked its way into the Modern Church. Under the guise of grace, many are living in rebellion against what God teaches.
The teachings of the Modern Church tend to have the effect of causing people to be lukewarm towards God because it turns the truth into a somewhat unimportant component of our relationship with our Creator. In some modern movements, truth is even acknowledged as unobtainable. Portions of the Modern Church focus more on aligning Christianity with American culture rather than having the culture submit to God.
This has happened because Christianity has fallen into the same trap that Judaism and other religions have. For example, Judaism has the Talmud: books with lots of different rabbinical interpretations or extensions of scripture espousing different truths. Instead of relying on the Jewish Bible (our Old Testament) alone, many practicing Jews rely on the rabbinical writings as well. Jesus gave examples of such error when He confronted the Pharisees. The frequency with which Christians quote other men instead of scripture is appalling. In modern Christian literature we have many different authors, some that espouse different truths. Consequently,Christianity has become a religion not unlike Judaism, Islam or a number of other man-made religions.
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Do you get your understanding about God and his plan of salvation from the Bible or from the pulpit? If an honest self-evaluation reveals that you are relying more on the words of men than the Word of God for your relationship with God and your eternal destiny, you need to read this book!
This book is not written to liberal theologians and Christians who may believe or assume the Bible is not the sole authority on spiritual matters. Rather, it is written to those who truly believe the Bible to be the literal and inspired Word of God and understand God’s plan of salvation to be revealed in biblical truth.
Unfortunately, in much of the modern church, the increasing trend is toward teaching the doctrines of men instead of what the Bible actually says. In these times, it is critically important that we follow the example of the Bereans, who examined scripture to see if what was said is true. The result is that many in the pews who think they are on Christ’s narrow way that leads to eternal life are being deceived.
This book tells the truth that every evangelical pastor and Christian should know about what the Bible really says about salvation.
About the Author
Gregg and Ed are followers of Jesus Christ who both seek a deeper relationship with the Lord through study of scripture and through trying to walk with the Holy Spirit. Gregg has spent the last 10 years facilitating his community’s Bible Study and was responsible for the Children’s Programs at his prior church. Ed has led home and church Bible studies since 2000. He currently leads a Sunday school class at his church on end times prophecy based on his book, The Day of the Lord (2nd Edition). They are committed to relying on the Word of God, not the words of men, for spiritual truth.