The Slumbering Church

The Slumbering Church

Jesus Christ died for the sins of the world and His death, burial and resurrection is the basis of the gospel of salvation. Salvation is primarily about deliverance from the sin nature (Matthew 1:21); translation from darkness to light and becoming a new creature in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17).

The Bible in Isaiah 58:1 commands Ministers of the Gospel to ‘cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.’

Rather than preach about sin; its consequences and how to be delivered from the sin nature, many ministers are busy preaching about earthly prosperity, success and miracles to a sinful and corrupt congregation which are misleading messages (Galatians 1:8-9) (2 Peter 1:20-21). Teaching fanciful topics while the congregation remains captives of the sin nature is spiritual blindness and a clear spiritual fraud.

Ministers who preach earthly prosperity while relegating God’s Word in other more essential areas are leading their members astray to eternal destruction. The spiritual well-being of the congregation is the basic preoccupation of a Minister of the Gospel who has not lost his spiritual focus (Ephesians 4:12).

The Last day’s church now focuses on a culture of materialism that worships mammon; indulges in promoting extravagance rather than moderation in lifestyles, and immoral values (Romans 16:17-18). The church teaches men’s wisdom rather than God’s wisdom (Proverbs 23:4); teaching what men want to hear to be approved of men, rather than teach what God wants His people to hear (Isaiah 58:1).

The Last Days Church is busy building cathedrals rather than building the souls of men which Christ died for. Funding church buildings have taken pre-eminence over financing evangelistic activities to win lost souls into the Kingdom of God. The church has become a business center where buying and selling in various forms go on (Mark 11:17) (Nehemiah 10:31) (Leviticus 26:43).

It is time for the slumbering church to wake up and re-focus.

Ayodele Adegbulugbe
www.relationship4growth.blogspot.com

Phone:+2348035978352

Email:ayodeleade2002@yahoo.com