Examining Faith

Is today’s modern church really afraid of teaching the full living gospel? Is it afraid of being politically incorrect and offending the masses? Many churches are on a very dangerous path. A path that will only lead to possible destruction. Let me point out, that if there is no gospel message of sin, grace, repentance and salvation there is zero.

“Everywhere is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter it is the better.” Those words were written by Charles Spurgeon more than 100 years ago. He might have just as easily been describing the state of the church at the beginning of the 21st Century. Well, in this “tell-it-like-it-is” indictment of the attitudes, methods and approaches of much of the modern church, Pastor John MacArthur picks up where Charles Spurgeon left off.

False doctrine is difficult to point out to many people because they are not seeking truth but are only interested in hearing the doctrines they want to hear. They want to believe their false doctrine so badly, they refuse to listen to anything that contradicts it. When this happens, a hardening of the heart takes place because truth is rejected from the outset. This is the typical result when people set out to prove a conclusion already drawn, rather than drawing a conclusion from the proofs present in the text. Finally the person’s heart gets so hard, no amount of reasoning, logic, or scriptural support will convince the person he is in error.