The Great Trade Down, part 1. Teaching/Preaching

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Edify

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God dealt with me recently that the church has been guilty of trading down from righteousness to unrighteousness with methods, styles, & so forth in order to keep up with the times or other churches.
Many pastors are trading down the anointing of God for books or internet sermons to preach/teach from. The reason they no longer have that anointing seems to be because they preach/teach on doctrines that are not from God.
How can they possibly expect God to bless something that was never His?

Instead of praying for a word from God to get their sermon for the service, they will go online & search the internet for their sermons and topics, disregarding God's will & His choices for their church.

Can you name a doctrine/teaching that has been added in your church/denomination?
 
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Which church are you talking about?

Ya oughta come visit mine sometime. It's nothing like what you talk about. And since you seem to not like what you're talking about a lot, maybe you'll like mine.
 
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There was a time we would hear preached, "Don't let the Devil get his foot in the door of your life, for once he does he's in."
We don't hear that anymore, now we hear stuff like,"that's a small thing to worry about, why should we make a big deal about it?"
There was a time when only the televangelists preached false doctrine & good christians would expose their false teachings. Now some in the church say, "Can't we just all get along?", as if these thing no longer matter?
Why doesn't/shouldn't it matter now?
Your thoughts please.
 
Lynx

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Edify said:
There was a time we would hear preached, "Don't let the Devil get his foot in the door of your life, for once he does he's in."
We don't hear that anymore, now we hear stuff like,"that's a small thing to worry about, why should we make a big deal about it?"
There was a time when only the televangelists preached false doctrine & good christians would expose their false teachings. Now some in the church say, "Can't we just all get along?", as if these thing no longer matter?
Why doesn't/shouldn't it matter now?
Your thoughts please.
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You have obviously never been to my church before.
 
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