Worldly Churches Lead to False Conversions!
In fact, these worldly churches tend to do these things:
- Softening up the Romans Road. It really is something that some of them are going against the use of the Law in evangelization. If one does not use the Law, how can they even realize they are sinners? Ray Comfort's method of revealing the Ten Commandments in his presentations like "Are You a Good Person?" help people realize big or small, they've fallen out of God's grace. Not so with the worldly church setting! Instead, you get people to just nod to, "You are a sinner..." then they try to get a shortcut method that leads to a false conversion. Where has the strong preaching gone to? With just the "1-2-3 repeat after me" evangelism, sure you can get the person to say, "Dear Jesus, I know I am a sinner, come into my heart, save me. Amen." BUT if they don't understand their sinful nature, how do you expect them to EVEN really repent? What is worse is that they are taking away the repent of your sinfulness preaching which unless a person even repents of their sins, I don't expect them to repent of their unbelief.
- Use of worldly entertainment to appeal to the youth. It should be a problem even for godly ministers who may start using contemporary music. To be honest, after I got saved, I used to be a fan of Contemporary Christian Music but the problem was this... these so-called Christian Rock groups tend to fall to apostasy. Words and tune GO TOGETHER, not just one without the other. I might also get concerned with using booze to appeal to the masses or maybe, you might consider the use of secular movies to entertain the youth. I mean, it already sickened me to think how some modernistic churches are even showing such filthy entertainment in Sunday school just to increase their numbers, or you could consider some might even use pornographic videos which is a contradiction of the Church's mission is to preach against sin, not propagate it. They may go ahead and call me more stuck up than the old preacher who uses worldly entertainment to appeal to the masses but I'm after quality not quantity. Such a dangerous method can address, "The Gospel is all about get saved and you can sin all you want." That is Antinomianism, not Christianity and to be honest, one of the marks of false conversions is sinful living without remorse and the term carnal Christian has driven people into false conversions. The Gospel is obviously, "You must CHOOSE between sin and the Savior." not "You can have sin and the Savior." Should Spurgeon, Whitfield, and Edwards be alive today, they'd scathe these churches!
- Not convicting its rich members of sin. I understand every church needs to earn money because of missions, electric bills, water bills, etc. or that churches are basically businesses because they are receiving money and need to do so in order to survive, no business ever survives without money. But the issue is this- when a pastor is starting to get controlled by his rich parishioners with big donations rather than him controlling them, when he starts embracing them just because they give money he is in the danger of embracing false converts or sit-ins. It is true God blesses people with money BUT it does not make them millionaires or billionaires. That's what is happening to some Filipino-Chinese Baptist churches I've known, not only have they deviated from pastor-led governance but they have also have tolerated the sins of rich members just so they can continue receiving offers. Any honest businessman profit or non-profit must NEVER put money above dignity.
- Positive psychology preaching is also a dangerous thing. That's my problem with the prosperity gospel that is being used by people like Joel Osteen. Joel Osteen's preaching is so worldly it's popular even to Roman Catholics because he is pro-Vatican. His books "Your Best Life Now" and "Become a Better You" is easily read even by religious Roman Catholics. No wonder it's so easy to even see these churches allowing obvious Jesuit operatives to preach in their pulpits like Martin Luther King Jr. who was openly a Jesuit-trained agent, is honored by many of the secular churches in America. This dangerous preaching style is what pastors use to con people into giving tons and tons of money to enrich their pockets. Just think about it they misquote Malachi 3:10 to make a buck and then they say, "Well give me more, God will bless you more." This is really dangerous and this positivism doctrine. I give a tithe of my net income, I give some love offerings, I give to missions, I give my first fruits BUT I do not expect this giving to make me rich! If I want to be rich legitimately, I have to do hard work. I am giving to God because I love Him and the money I'm giving may help somebody who can't even help. It's not like what happens in those prosperity gospel crowds (note many but not all of them are working for the Vatican) where people give tons of money to the point of poverty like some crazy Ponzi scheme. The Gospel is NOT about health and prosperity, it's about the sinfulness of man and their need of a Savior! This kind of preaching leads to false conversions because for one, when problems like financial problems strike, these people are immediately offended and they leave.
In fact, we need every ounce of revival we can get. Preachers must preach from the Bible as it is to people as they are... not a softened up message but one while not using offensive means, must offend the sinner of their sinfulness.