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Are We True Followers Because We Go to Church?

posted Feb 9, 2011 8:12 PM by dawn ranghel   [ updated Mar 23, 2011 9:11 AM ]
Millions of people attend church every Sunday throughout the world. They all say that they are "Christians", "followers of Jesus Christ". Many of these church attendees  unashamedly live with their partners outside of marriage, joyfully participate in premarital sex, or cheat on their spouses as they usher, sing in the choir and sit in the pews. Several times a year they actively celebrate and promote pagan festivals. Yet, many of those church attendees in hypocritical pride and wretched self-righteousness stand in judgment of others who don't currently believe in Jesus Christ and, perhaps, reflect more Christ-like qualities in their lives.

Where is the holiness by which all believers are called to live? Where is the accountability? Is modern Christianity just a "feel good" message? Is it an ideology that encourages its believers to live as sinfully as they wish and later go to heaven because all is forgiven? Is it a commercial activity masked in a Christian package? Let's be sure of this one thing - the Holy Bible warns that men would make merchandise of the Word of God and that false teachers would arise who would "cleverly teach their destructive heresies about God and even turn against their Master who bought them. Theirs will be a swift and terrible end. Many will follow their evil teaching and shameful immorality. And because of them, Christ and his true way will be slandered." We all have to be very careful in our Christian walk. We must not blindly follow all who say that they are of God. We must continually search the scriptures to examine those to whom we listen.  We must study and search the scriptures to ensure that we are indeed true followers of Jesus Christ. ...continued