Yes, it is possible to find Jesus in your heart. All we need to do is knock and the door will be opened to us. However, Jesus fully intended for us to live our faith within a community of believers, however messy that may be.
“They demand a supernatural experience in order to believe, all while denying themselves that very thing by refusing to simply pick up a copy of scripture and encounter their Creator personally,” Peter wrote.
Whether it is the lone kid in the lunchroom or on the playground, or the new person at work or church, it can be really heartbreaking and awkward to be ignored by an entire group of people.
John Piper warns that any confession that cloaks fatalism, hopelessness, makes peace with sin, and is premeditated are more dangerous to our souls that the guy who accidentally types the wrong domain into a browser window and unintentionally winds up on a porn site.
“Having rejected God and His moral precepts, we’ve concocted our own counterfeit morality – minus the grace, forgiveness, and love with which He administers His,” Peter wrote.
In order for New Age philosophies to become dominant, then all other religions especially Christianity must either be destroyed or become less of a spiritual influence within society and in the individual lives of people.
“I’m thinking of trends like so-called ‘seeker-driven Christianity,’ the irreverent brand of entertainment-as-religion that has dominated evangelical megachurches for three decades or longer,” MacArthur wrote.
“God is the only person who can take toxic emotions and exchange them for gentle whispers of truth that brings clarity to your unique identity. That truth will be a springboard to living your life with renewed purpose and passion.”
The creation of the “18-34” year-old is aimed at getting 34-year-olds to act 18, not getting 18-year-olds to act 34. As a result, we offer children very little incentive to grow up, Gibbs wrote.
“To treat them with even a modicum of decency is beneath our high Christian calling, a calling we now demonstrate by our condescending, cruel, mocking, and merciless attitudes,” Michael Brown wrote.
