What Happens When the Church Chooses Deception
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Most every person can remember an occasion as a child when no amount of persuasion from our mom or dad could convince us to change our opinion.
Our peers had told us what was true but nothing was going to change our belief; only to discover later on what we had believed was misinformation or worse, we had believed a lie.
Accurate reporting and a free press are critical to the well-being and the sustaining of liberty for an individual and for a nation.
There is no greater bondage than someone living in deception; thinking themselves to be free when they are in fact slaves.
Darkness has become their light.
What they believe to be true is, in reality, misinformation or disinformation. What they assume to be accurate is distortion.
- Distortion is changing the shape, the characteristic, or the design of an object or a fact.
- Misinformation is the unintentional reporting of inaccurate facts.
- Disinformation is the purposeful dissemination of inaccurate information with the intent to distort the truth.
The consistent reporting, teaching and publishing of a lie will ensure it becoming the new “truth” – disinformation.
The mission of the Church is to bring the message of truth to the world, “and [they] shall know the truth and the truth shall make [them] free” (John 8:32 KJV).
The church has been given the amazing responsibility of ensuring every generation has access to the truth so they can live in true liberty.
The Apostle Paul wrote a solemn warning to his spiritual son Timothy on two different occasions.
“Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth” (1 Timothy 4:1-3 NKJV).
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables” (2 Timothy 4:3-5 NKJV).
Why would anyone actually choose to accept deception over truth? It makes no sense, or does it?
What Happens When the Church Chooses Deception
A person’s morality will always determine their theology.
When people make the choice to follow Christ casually and to loosen their moral standards, they must adjust their theology accordingly.
We are living in such a time.
Many professors, pastors and church leaders are teaching and publishing the infallible Holy Bible “contains God’s words.”
According to them, many of the facts are inaccurate and many of the principles are cultural ethics of ancient times. Such compromise on the infallibility of the Living Word of God will make the church vulnerable to misinformation, disinformation and distortion.
Historical rewrite and moral compromise will become accepted norm and the Church will have a form of godliness but she will stripped of Her power to make a difference in a lost and dying world.
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How to Escape the Delusion in the Church
6 Things to Do When Your Church Is in Delusion
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What Happens When Pastors Compromise the Truth
How Christians Can Be a Powerful Light in a World of Darkness
Who Determines What is Truth?
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How This Culture of Deception is Leading To the Antichrist
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Pastor Dean Sermon Archives Episode 15 – Jesus’ Disciples Must Stand Fast in a Culture of Delusion
Pastor Dean Sermon Archives Episode 17 – Jesus Redeems a Fallen Culture
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Foundational U Podcast: Ep. 50 – Characteristics of the Current Western Culture
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Foundational U Podcast: Ep. 52 – A Hidden Cause Impacting Our Culture
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Foundational U Podcast: Ep. 55 – What Now for the Disciple of Jesus Christ?
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We have been meditating on those verses lately, and it is clear to see that many churches today have a form of godliness, but are denying the power. Thank you for sharing this truth.
So true, Amanda. It’s tragic how many churches reflect this sad verse.
Amen! My husband and I and several friends are so disheartened that in the area we live in it is so hard to find churches that are preaching the Truth. Rather many churches worry about offending people or worse yet, to allow license to live as they would like. I an saddened for the generation rising up, where their only example are “Christians” and church services that look like the world.
These churches that trust in their fancy stages and worship teams and avoiding preaching on Heaven and Hell, but rather preaching on freedom from their addictions rather than freedom from the heart of the matter. I’m not saying preaching needs to be all fire and brimstone, but I see a lack of preaching about what people are being saved from, and the joy that we have knowing that the Lord redeemed us from the pit into eternal life with Him. It seems as though they are not trusting God’s Word to do what it says it will, but trusting in performance.
As you can see, this post touches a nerve, something that has been grieving me much of late.
Thank you for speaking boldly. Praying that the church will wake up and return wholly to the Word of God.
Karen, I hear your heart completely; and these are the very things that grieve my heart and spirit so much. Rather than preaching the Word that will set people free, they entertain people in their bondage.
Great post! I’ve just been thinking and praying about this very issue this week. Thanks for sharing your words of wisdom to the church. Visiting you from the Titus Tuesdays link up party. Have a blessed week!
Thank you so much for visiting. I hope you’ll stop back by again.