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1:09 You brought up that churches will usually try to appeal to carnality when trying to entertain. I would love to hear you elaborate more on that, and maybe what you think churches should or shouldn't do when they are trying to entertain, perhaps this could be another video topic 🤔.
YOU KNOW ABOUT LOT OF CHURCHES ARE YOU CHURCH HOPPING GOTTA FIND ONE CHURCH AND BE AT THAT CHURCH I CANT FIND A TRUE CHURCH WHERE I LIVE THEYRE ALL ABOUT ENTERTAINMENT
I once was in a church service on ANZAC day and the person giving the communion message told us that as we take communion to remember the ANZACs. He was well intentioned but incredibly blasphemous. Bottom line is Pastors should know what people are going to say before just handing anyone the microphone.
wont happen; dont u know we are in the end days? the antychrist is going to take power soon! thats WHY the monarchy is being dismantled and churches are being dissolved into something else! you dont recognize this?
The worst part is that “they thought it was ok” - it’s been normalised. So depressing but so in line with last days prophecy, Matt - thanks for sharing.
It's also sad that for the rest of their lives, whenever they hear Hallelujah from Handel's Messiah, the kids will think of Looney Tunes instead of the Lord.
God bless you brother for this message. A few years ago I attended a church which produced an exert from Walt Disney’s “Frozen” on stage…Walt Disney?? Frozen?? In church?? The days of both apostasy and heresy are indeed upon us. Praying for you all, brothers and sisters.
@@ritabrady7444 Interesting, perhaps if they were trying to teach some sort of christian message from it then maybe that wouldn't be a problem, but yeah church probably isn't the place for that sort of thing. The kids can get that at Disney world or something 🤔. Nevertheless, thanks for answering and have a blessed one.
I am disabled and so have been unable to attend church for a number of years. I read my Bible daily, pray, do Bible studies, read books written by godly men, listen to hymns and worship music, watch my favorite biblical pastors preach on tv and listen to godly messages from believers like yourself. I miss getting together with fellow believers and worshipping in a holy congregation but from what I've read and heard recently on the subject you raised and others spoken of in the comments, I am happy to worship my Lord and Savior in this way. It seems we all, including the church, are rushing headlong into the End Times. Jesus warned us of the false preachers and apostasy that would reign in men's hearts at the end. No other way to look at it. Thank you for your godly ministry. I pray you are well. 🙏🙏🙏✝️✝️✝️
I worship Him with you, brother, in spirit and truth. Now and especially when the dung hits the fan, remember that we all are bound together in the Spirit, not the flesh. We're a spiritual house, where the Lord dwells; not a building.
I will worship God with you as well .. We are a spiritual house , just like @leighb.-jg7bj said . A House that will never fall !! May the Lord bless us all with His presense ...
When you have to stop attending Church for any reason it is a hard process to stay on the Journey to Heaven. It is encouraging that people are still getting into the Word and discovering how they can change the way they worship.
@andrewgraham7659 I agree. I wasn't always so diligent. When I was first unable to attend, I kept thinking, "I'll get back, I'll get back," so other than praying, I didn't do a whole lot. When I began to realize I wasn't going to be able to attend. I got very sad and withdrawn. My walk suffered greatly. Then I had so many challenging events occur I noticed I was no longer trusting His word, His promises. I couldn't feel His presence. I started listening to Charles Stanley, and I bought a few of his books. He made me realize that I had allowed myself to drift away from my Lord, and that was why I couldn't feel His presence or the Holy Spirit's voice. God hadn't deserted me, I had deserted him. That's when I got back reading the Bible, I found a local Christian tv station that broadcasts Charles Stanley, David Jeremiah, Adrian Rogers (my favorite), Michael Youseef, and others. I record them and watch their services throughout the week. Their websites offer free Bible studies too. I'm not saying all this to brag but just in case someone is where I was earlier. I want to encourage ppl to get back in the word. Without that, we can't hope to know what God wants of us or how to glorify him regardless of our abilities. I was once very active in my church. My husband would groan every time the pastor would ask for volunteers bc he knew my hand would go up. Little by little, I had to relinquish my roles in each ministry. It was not easy, and I mourned each loss, but God is good and had something else planned for me. I have grown so much closer to the Lord. My disability has turned into a blessing. We know that the Lord does that all the time. My mom used to say, "When God closes a door, He opens a window." Sorry to go on and on, but I think someone out there, I don't know who or when, needs to see this and be encouraged. Bless you 🙏🙏🙏✝️✝️✝️
God saved me out of Babylon (churchianity) more than ten years ago. Losing Christian friends was hard at first, but it's nothing in comparison to the joy of fellowship with God. "Come out of her my people saith the LORD".
I cannot believe that out churches have become like the world. For example why are people allowed to take communion (believers or non believers) without thoroughly addressing it other than Jesus saying do this in remembrance of me. Taking communion in an unworthy manner. I can’t believe that I’ve done that all of these years without knowing it in the first place. It’s so appalling that goats and sheep are allowed to join hands in worship. I won’t take communion until I’ve fully repented of my sins whatever it may be
Churches don’t become worldly and apostate overnight. It happens bit by bit, day by day and compromise by compromise until God is completely replaced. This is why I think it’s spiritually dangerous for an awake God fearing Christian to continue attending such a church once they become aware of the state of it.
@@jesusisthechristthesonofgod Who spoke from the Burning Bush? Whom did Jude say led the Israelites out of Egypt in a cloud? Who is "The Cloud Rider"? Why did the Pharisees seek his death for calling himself the Son of Man (Bar Enes)? What is the difference between 'Ben Adam' and 'Bar Enes' in the Bible?
I went to a catholic mass in my remote town in Australia, the children were taken off to Sunday school and towards the end of the mass, the children came back and showed the priest their drawings. It was beautiful. The father was one of a kind, he had so much patience with the young ones.
I was a Catholic before God saved me through his son Jesus. I say this in love… the Roman Catholic Church is not representing the true God and the true Jesus who is Gods son.
@@gregm55mullen62 Yet she is the one who gave you the Bible... Time for you to read some history for yourself... You should check the Council of Rome 382 A.D under the leadership of Pope Damasus I that set the Canon of the Scripture (Old and New Testament of the Bible)... Then read some Church's Fathers writings, etc. Everything the Church teaches can be backed up by the Bible, the councils, and the apostolic tradition...
You obviously do not know your history or true Scripture. The RC has their own dogma which they use in addition to the RC bible which is absolutely not what was taught by the early Church called the Way. The RC Church was built on a mixture of Christian teaching and Paganism. This Church theology is leading many to hell. Follow only the early apostles teaching. Nothing else. Tradition is not Scripture.
There is no limit to the blasphemy. It goes to extremes in this age. Look at what happened in England just last week. The " church " of England has officially announced that their facilities will no longer be called CHURCHES. Because it's offensive and oppressive to people of other faiths. They are asking their priests to de-emphasize Sunday services and offer nature walks and world event talks instead of preaching. They wish now to be known as state sponsored " Community Centers ". That's the word from " good ol' England ". It's blasphemous in the extreme and it's a disgrace on a once Christian nation.
I am from the UK and I heard years ago someone say '' The devil is setting up his kingdom in the church of England'' A prophecy come true. Totally disgraceful
Was it ever a christian nation? Not being factious, I'm actually asking 🤔. Also, it sounds like that church is doing the equivalent of some Schools that want to censor books because their use of certain pronouns may "offend" someone, because somehow every little minor thing out there is supposedly offending someone somewhere 🤨.
@@CLDJ227 Like how blasphemy offends you? God doesn't exist. The afterlife doesn't exist. Your body produces DMT when you die so you are just tripping balls. I tried DMT and "saw God" too.
How do you "have a personal encounter" with The LORD???? Explain? HE hasn't returned, yet. He is risen and. Hasn't come back in glory to rule with a. Rod of iron. I hope you don't go through Bethel Redding type "churches", a lot.of unsound teachings and doctrines from those kind. Social clubs, in My experience.
@@fortis6258we are required to have a continuing personal relationship with Jesus Christ after we've accepted him as our Lord and Savior. Our daily devotional can be considered to be an "encounter" with the Holy Spirit.
I didn't witness this personally but there is a mega "church" in a city I used to live in. Some people I knew went to services one evening. As they were sitting in the pews the pastor, worship team (whatever you want to call it) was asking folks if they needed a Bible. Some responded yes. The team of people up front grabbed Bibles out of boxes and began throwing them out into the crowd! God's Word is something sacred that should be treated with respect.
I was in a church where the pastor in his sermon used quotes from a Harry Potter book ! The UK is in dire straits! I am reminded of the 300 warriors in Gideon's army for the Lord. Better to have 300 on fire people of God ! Have mercy on us O Lord we so desperately need you!" Come Lord Jesus Come "
There is only one person (okay, and his followers) in the Harry Potter books who uses witchcraft in the sense of the bible, and that is the bad guy. He is defeated by the heroe’s self sacrifice.
Going back decades ago, I was mentioning to people at a conservative church about a different church where people dressed up as clowns and preached the gospel. If memory serves me correctly, it wasn’t just for kids. I found the idea of dressing up as a clown and preaching the gospel to be blasphemous. I noticed an older couple sitting at the table looked offended. Finally, the woman said, through an angry face, “he and I are BOTH registered clowns!” And apparently, they had preached the gospel as clowns. They went on to pretty much rebuke me as if I was the clown in the situation. I was stunned. I remember a few people at the table struggling to contain their laughter in the face of someone angrily proclaiming to not just be a clown, but a REGISTERED clown.
I've experienced a few disappointments with the church and these are just a couple: I attended an Easter service where the arrival of Jesus on a donkey to celebrate passover and then, the time before his crucifixion when the crowds were witnessing Pontius Pilote sentencing him to death was being recounted. Instead of asking the congregation to interact by waving our palm crosses as they did when Jesus was entering Jerusalem, they asked us to wave our fists in the air and shout, "crucify him" when he was being sentenced. I was visibly shocked as were a few others, as most of the congregation did as they were asked... & I felt the darkness present in church that day. More recently, I was visiting a well known Cathedral City in Wiltshire with my Husband... It was on a Sunday and we wanted to see the Cathedral. However, when we got to the religious site, there was a swing band playing a Blues Brothers track and several people were jiving in front of the main entrance... We were just as disgusted as some of the tourists there, with one commenting that they thought it was meant to be a place where people pray? 🤨
I went to a first communion service and when the children were lined up to enter the church about half the parents were standing on the pews taking photographs and videos and talking loudly. I couldn’t believe the level of disregard for reverence BY THE PARENTS in front of their children. I’m happy they were happy about the event, but it sent a wrong message about the solemnity of the religious event. It’s not like this was a football game or high school graduation, but it was treated like it was. The kids didn’t care one iota for Holy Communion. It was just something they were doing because that was just what everyone else was doing. When we treat something holy like it is mundane we profane it. I wasn’t so much outraged at the parents but sad that so many of them didn’t seem to have a clue about why just being happy about that day wasn’t enough to sanctify the event. They turned it into a party with revelry and treated the graciousness of God like it’s an ordinary snack. I want to morn and cry when I see this.
We left a failing Methodist church because they went woke and affirmed all sorts of unbiblical things. They even had a tarot card reading table at one of their church festivals.
That isn't "woke", that's just blasphemous. "Woke" would be showing concern for the hurting and marginalized and outcasts and what they're suffering, and what to do to reach out to them in that suffering.
@@denisemayosky1955 "Woke" has come to mean affirming any and all perverse behaviors, even those specifically identified as evil in the Bible. Affirming sin is not "showing concern." It is enabling someone to continue in their lostness. What you state as the definition of woke I would say simply describes Christian love. But "woke" and love are not interchangeable.
@@yayayoma "Woke" has become the new "four-letter word" for conservatives. They throw it onto anything they don't like. And the word "woke" - from what I heard - was in use way before this whole latest version of the "left/right" debate.
@@denisemayosky1955 Every generation thinks they are more enlightened than the last. I'd say it's part arrogance, part ignorance, part naivete. "Woke" is just the latest incarnation of this. If you mean love, why not just say love?
We once attended a fund-raiser for a Christian organization. A dinner and theater. The show they chose to re-enact was a fairy tale that entailed the students casting spells. I remember sitting there in stunned disbelief The worst part was everyone around us was laughing and enjoying it, I guess because it was a well-known fairy tail that most people think of as harmless. Many of the people there were Christian, but it was also an outreach to the community. And this was the best they could do to represent Christ?? The scripture came to me; "it would have been better to have a millstone tied around your neck......offend these little ones". What's worse is that the kids performing this show would have had to practice the spells multiple times. God help us. What have we allowed in our "churches" today in the name of entertainment??!!
casting spells? SURELY you stood up in the MIDDLE of the play and LOUDLY DECLARED that CASTING SPELLS is an EVIL THING and magic sorcery is CONDEMNED in the BIBLE!!!
We went to a seeker sensitive church that once played the song “What If God Was One Of Us.” Totally blasphemous, the chorus being “what if G_d was one of us? just a slob like one of us?” We switched churches. It was just too disrespectful, and no one else seemed to notice. It was crazy.
Sure does--if you find nothing wrong with a worldly song sung in what's supposed to be the house of God. There are thousands of HOLY, God inspired hymns, usually found in "red back hymnals," and online. no need to choose a song that tries to sound Christian, but isn't. Deception in churches are very strong. Satan will do anything to offer a counterfeit; even if it means changing the once sacred songs to trash.
@@evelynspaghetti4978 What if God was just a slob like us? Uhhhhhh. No. We are sinners, he is holy. We are low; he is exalted. We are created, likened to clay and dust. He is eternal, immortal, infallible, ever-present, omniscient, all-powerful, self-existent; He is life, light, breath. Nothing exists that did not come to existence without him, but he came from no one, depends on no one, never dies, never had to be born, never lied or sinned, and certainly He is not a slob like us.
@@evelynspaghetti4978 "If God had a name, what would it be?" (God DOES have a name! many names, in fact.) "If God had a face, what would it look like? And would you want to see If seeing meant that you would have to believe In things like Heaven and in Jesus and the saints And all the prophets?" (The writer thinks believing in God is not a good thing. She also does not believe that Jesus is God.) "Just tryin' to make his way home Back up to Heaven all alone Nobody callin' on the phone Except for the Pope, maybe, in Rome" (Nor does the writer know that God has tens of thousands of angels and other Heavenly creatures in constant attendance and offering unending praise and worship, saying "Holy! Holy! Holy!")
“The church” , if you can even call it that anymore, is in such a state . I’ve seen something similar with circus performers hanging form the ceiling and The Grinch entertaining in a SERVICE at Christmas at Houston’s First Baptist, a repugnant place that Christ would spit out of His Mouth. With the constant money grubbing and more more more building, too many pastors, vocational worship leaders and pastors, whose four kids WE are supposed to put through college and whose wife needs her nails and hair done and a big new car, even when we can’t do these things for our own families, I am sick to death of the American church, the western church, whatever you wanna call it . what happened to the notion that Paul gave people - do as I do, if you can- and our Lord and savior who had nowhere to lay his head? After 35 years in the church, as a believer, I can honestly say that there is absolutely nowhere for me to go, ( and I’ve visited over a hundred churches in my current horrible area) and I feel NO guilt. As a matter of fact, I feel a giant weight has been lifted off of my chest. For anyone who’s interested in commenting on not forsaking the believers, I have plenty of Christian friends that I get to together with and discuss the Bible and the Lord’s doctrines. Matter fact, I’m doing that tomorrow night. please show me in the Bible where it describes anything that looks like the church today. You can't find it. People, if you are leaving your church after service in absolute anguish and sick and grieving in your heart and soul-- that’s the Holy Spirit. Get out of there as fast as you can and don’t look back. Don’t feel guilty. It is not your fault and you are certainly not alone.
A light in my head came on when you wrote "is in such a state." Worldwide, governments are legislating more and more things about faith and appropriate activities, especially days and times. Can we not respect all peoples and their beliefs? Church and State need to be separate. Throughout history, theocracy has led to nothing but death and destruction. God Bless us all. I agree that the church mentioned in the video was wrong, but let us give the problem to God, in Jesus' Name and for His sake. Amen.
Been in your shoes for years. Wife and I try to find a church every now and then but can’t fit in. Our fellowship with Christians is in homes and we love it.
This you stated is why I left all "western", "protestant", "non-denoms" and went to the Eastern Orthodox. There is true worship in liturgy, the work of the people. There it is centered around the Eucharist which is Christ's presence. You may want to give it a try.
@@olerocker3470 - We spent a few years in a conservative liturgical church (Anglican) and it was probably the best of the bunch, however it was pretty dead spiritually.
You shouldn't be surprised. This is the last days where evil will increase more and more. Similar to Kenneth Copeland in a meeting he held walking to people in the front row and showing them his watch he is wearing that costs thousands of dollars😮
When intrusive thoughts try to invade my mind, i will drive them out by the word of God. I will not give the negative and ungodly thoughts space to overcome God's word in my heart and will speak the words of God and let them crumble under His power and glory. I will speak life over myself and over my loved ones. In Jesus mighty name. 🙏 🙏
I’m speechless. We also turned God’s altar into a stage which is why I stopped playing on worship teams. Now I’m dealing with major illnesses so I live in the middle of nowhere and destroyed my body thinking I was doing what was best for my wife and kids. My 40 year old son is running the business now and I’m praying and believing for a miracle. But I just can’t believe how anyone whose been a believer for a decent length of time would find this alright: Forgive us Lord for letting Satan and his demons get into your meeting place’s. My heart is where the Holy Spirit resides praise God. But this just tells me we’re that much closer to His return. Lord Bless. I haven’t seen you come up in my feed in a very long time. I pray your health has improved greatly. Keep Looking Up!
I’ve been a denominational church goer my whole life, but it’s these sorts of things as well as others that make it increasingly difficult to trust going to any, denominational or not.
I heard a preacher say once that men never sin unless some woman entices them to. He was teaching from Bill Gothard's books. I guess that means that males aren't responsible for their sins.
I wasn't in a church service, but one time while having dinner someone thought that we should partake of communion together since we weren't able to attend church that Sunday. Someone had some whiskey and suggested we drink that from shot glasses instead of wine. I was appalled and refused. Perhaps I'm being legalistic, but it seemed irreverent to replace wine with whiskey. Some thought I was being too uptight. It didn't sit right with me at all so I refused to participate.
You were clearly having dinner with people who had absolutely no understanding of the seriousness of what they were suggesting. They should read what Paul says about such behaviour in 1 Corinthians 11:27.
I live in a small town, so we don’t have big churches. I joined a church, then later on was asked to hold “kids church” after the worship service. I loved it. Then Christmas rolled around, the pastor’s wife was planning to deck out the church in Christmas trees all over the place. It seemed so over done. When she wanted to talk to me about the Christmas program with the kids, I expected them to sing a praise song but she and the worship leader decided the kids would sing Leonard Cohen’s song Alleluia. I already knew the lyrics , disgusted by them when I first read them after the song became popular. I asked them if they knew the lyrics. Their eyebrows shot up and they looked insulted, of course we do, the pastor’s wife replied. I gave her the keys I had, told her thank you but I am not going to teach the kids to sing that song. I walked out and never looked back. I felt like crud but the Lord is so good. The next day I saw online an interesting article about a Russian village, deep in the mountains. Many of the people had shrines of icons in their homes but the part that blew my mind was the photos of their worship center, located in the forest, surrounded by very tail trees but in the area which would be the central worship, there was a cluster of fir trees. These people worshipped these trees bc they don’t go dormant like the forest trees. This is why fir trees do not belong in the home or church. I asked The Father why do we have Christmas trees. He told me that in the winter it was too cold to go into the forest to worship the trees, so they cut them down and brought them inside so that they could worship. Read Jeremiah 10. Did you know Christmas trees were introduced by the German immigrants and were banned until the 1800’s? There is much pagan worship in Europe, look at the Olympic ceremonies held in EU countries, the symbolism is astounding. You may want to look into the grand opening ceremony when CERN was completed. Sorry this is so long. If you made it this far, God bless you and please don’t hate me for pointing out the godless nature of Christmas trees. Don’t be fooled by others who say they represent the tree of the cross.
We've known about the Scripture that talks about bringing trees into the house, and while I agree with you (Jeremiah 10), that's not what that Scripture meant, however to us we took it to mean it that way anyway. It was very hard on our children, seeing friends from the neighborhood and school having trees in the house, but not us. As they got older, they understood. We spoke against Santa Claus and instead told them that Jesus provided the money for us to get them presents. After awhile, they didn't mind.
In Cohen's defense, he is a Jew. He said he wrote the song because he liked the idea of thousands of people singing the word "Hallelujah." For those who may not know, "Hallelujah" is a word known in most languages. It means, "Praise God." BUT not just any god. It has the name of the true God imbedded in the word. It means "Praise YHVH." But his statements about the song indicated that it was meant to be sung to secular audiences. THAT fact should be as obvious to Christians as it is to Jews.
@Packhorse-bh8qn Well, someone had mentioned that the lyrics were offensive. I agree that they were never meant to be sung in a church (or Temple), but I think the intent of the writer of this secular song was good.
@Packhorse-bh8qn Indeed. And the pews in those entertainment halls are always quite full. My father used to say, "If the majority are doing it, it's probably wrong."
Leonard Cohen's use of alleluia isn't blasphemous, whereas Handel could certainly be thought so. My Jesus brings comfort to the wounded, doest compose paeans to kings. It belongs to the same error as the prosperity gospel.
The worst thing I recall, that took place at Greenbelt (a large Christian family event) in the UK, was to replace the bread and wine with champagne and chocolates in a communion service.
I hope others also walked out. We left church years ago..i cannot stand when they are supposed to be singing worship and all are talking about the BBQ they are having later. Its not tolerable for a true believer to be in church in my opinion..bible studies and worship at home are fine with my family. God bless you and thank you for exposing evil. I believe the one world religion of the antichrist will start right in the churches.the true believers will be the bible believers Who will not compromise for the false love and false peace of the antichrist.
You are right to call it blasphemous. I suspect the stoopid intentional play on words originated with ignorance. They didn’t think beyond the intent to entertain, both children and adults, thinking it to be cute and funny. Being joyful in church needs to be focused on the Lord. Children can find enjoyment in knowing God loves them. They need to know that hallelujah is praise to God, and that “hallelooney” is praise to “looney”… which is quite meaningless, and an inappropriate context in which to make fun out of words. Praise God for His long suffering with the foolishness of human beings. He loves us immeasurably.
When I moved into my new house, I went to my local church. It had a children's play group every Tuesday. We were told the children would be doing the Christmas Nativity next weekend. Off I went to see them I was surprised that none of the children had costumes on, they had coats hats backpacks on. Well, the "Nativity " started in the theme of a cartoon "Dora the explora" with a child wondering around looking for a bear ...I lost track of what on Earth was going on. It never even related to the birth of our saviour at all. I did let my feelings be known along with a lot of other people. It never happened again. Just shocking that a church going adult thought that this was acceptable.!
My mum used to play that song allulah 😮 The most crazy thing I’ve seen is people laying on the floor laughing hysterically and the pastor leader saying that’s the work of the Holy Spirit 😶
When I was young, we went w/my cousins to their Nanny's church. My cousins are ELCA Lutheran, and sis and I were Anderson Church of God (very similar to Nazerene). We were beyond shocked when one lady started rolling down the aisle!! Everyone was babbling like crazy. They seemed to think the lady rolling around was normal. But my cousins and I were trying our best not to snicker and laugh out loud, the most my sis and I were used to ... was Dad or one of the other men would say "Amen" to verse spoken by the preacher! And my cousins didn't even hear that in their church!
I was raised in the Church of God-Anderson, Indiana near Pittsburgh. My parents and sister are rejoicing in heaven because of the their true belief in Jesus Christ. Thankfully l have never experienced such blasphemy. All will be set to right in that great day in Glory.
You are absolutely right! I have played this beautiful song from the Messiah … so moving and reverent. My blood would have turned cold if a mockery had been made of it and that’s exactly what that church did. I’m with you… I’d never go back!!
Worst thing I ever saw in church was when I was visiting my mom in the Deep South of the US. What is commonly known as “The Bible Belt”. When we arrived for Service at this Southern Baptist Church, we noticed how different the altar looked. The Remembrance Table with the open bible had disappeared. It had been replaced by the drum kit. For the band. It just felt so wrong.
Once they allow all the world's instruments in, that need the church. Google how churches accepted drums--and what they were for in ancient dsys. Read a book titled "Crisis in Christian Music," by Dr. Jack Wheaton, or " The Big Beat, " by Frank Garlock. " Either one of them will let you know why rock style music should never be in e church in any form.
I went to a Presby church and it was the same thing, drum kit, lead, rhythm and bass guitars, keyboard,.. full set up. Young people played music but there was never a sermon, no mention of God or Jesus at all, just music.
WELL HIGHLIGHTED FELLA..... its grieving to hear of this, but we do know that the end times will reveal an apostate church where there has been a great falling away...😥
Once went to a church at Christmas. The text that the pastor preached from was the song “Santa clause is coming to town”. His point was to be good for goodness sake.
It was not a church service, but at a regional retreat, my church and several others in our fellowship held one fall for high school students. This was in 1973. About 80 students from around our state attended. It was sponsored by one of the "Christian" Universities we supported. We bunked five HS students to a room with one college student as a "mentor." Our "mentor," a senior, had a terrible understanding of scripture and barely any grasp of sound doctrine or theology. Now, I admit I was a bit precocious and had studied the Word quite a bit by my 18th birthday, but I was unprepared for the utter lack of preparedness shown by this fellow who was supposedly studying for the ministry! However, I was taken aback when he listed Alvin Toffler (author of Future Shock and others) along with Daniel and other prophets! I read Toffler's book when I was a sophomore (like I said, precocious!), and he never claimed to be a prophet. I pointed this out to our "mentor" and asked if he knew what the test of a prophet was. "Oh, that's just Old Testament mythology. No one believes that anymore." I don't know if he ever was ordained, but if he was, I pray his eyes were opened before he did too much damage! Our local church left the fellowship and became independent by 1974. I believe we are witnessing the Falling Away as the number of churches and denominations that have turned away from the Gospel seems to be growing.
Brother, what we are seeing in the Churches today, is like 6 of the 7 Churches in Chapters 2 and 3 of the Book of Revelation that Jesus describes. Just think, Jesus finds fault with 6 out of 7 Churches. Church has become watered down with no Gospel being preached and no souls being saved. Indeed very sad.
Yes this is happening!! It’s so sad as churches today is like going to a disco!! There is no teachings of the Bible and the traditional hymns seems to be replaced with songs that doesn’t make sense no humbleness not praised properly!! I would rather stay home and educate myself with the bible!!
That is pretty pathetic. House's of worship have become nothing more than theaters for the things this WORLD loves best. Adding what the warped and perverted entertainment industry offers up to a Church service is about as ungodly as you can get. Every member of that Church leaves just as biblically illiterate as when they walked in. They will then talk about the SHOW they witnessed instead of talking about what they should have learned about God and his word. Most Churches today, beyond salvation and Holy Spirit baptism are worthless as far as what they offer their congregations. They never progress in Biblical knowledge beyond the baby level.🤟🏼✌🏼💪🏼🙏🏼🇺🇸🇦🇺
I'm glad you're calling it out. My church had a lady do a bible reading which she did from her NWT bible translation and no one including the pastor picked up on it. Even when pointed out it wasn't a problem. Last week a lady shared in church that she was 'deconstructing' her faith. To throw away all the problematic parts of the bible and rebuild a new version of her truth. There were lots of tears and hugs. We had a service that was an interview between the pastor and a church elder who told us that no one understands most of the bible and it doesn't make sense anyway so he feels close to God by listening to music. Secular music is just as good for that as christian music. I'm like the frog in slowly boiling water. Its been creeping in so slowly I can't figure out when to jump out. Something like this happens every single week. Church just makes me really sad these days. Please do a video on leaving a church. I don't know how to leave without causing a lot of hurt and damage. Should you speak up knowing its on deaf ears or just stop going? Its not a big church and I host the ladies groups and have been attending for years. I never miss anything but I can't stomach it anymore.
Just leave. If your church is already doing these things then its gone. Your leaving may wake up the few ppl looking for guidance and leadership. I went and talked to the pastor of my church before l left. I explained to him all the problems l had with what was happening and not happening. He made up excuses. I went to another church and God blessed me there from the very beginning. I was greatly relieved.
Best you follow what the Spirit of God is telling you: time leave and don't look back. Will it hurt? Yes, but it's better to listen and obey that "still small voice" than to be disobedient to the leading of God.
@@noturningbackever493 yes but DONT LEAVE QUIETLY! stand UP and CALL them on it!! in the midst of evil being displayed in any church, you need to stand UP in the midst of it and call it OUT!!
@@noturningbackever493 We marched OUT of our church when i noticed in the paper bulletin that a halloween party was being held. I emailed the pastor and told him WHAT THE #### is a CHURCH doing having halloween parties??? He replied oh come to the church office and lets have a chat! I declined. I told my home group leader about this, they seemed nonplussed! I said if the church decided to do something that the Bible said was wrong, which wd you obey? she hesitated, then said she wd contact the church. so i sd you wd obey a church instead of the Bible? no response....we didnt go back!
When I was a little kid (5 or 6) my mom would make me attend Sunday School at a Methodist church. The Sunday school teacher would stand at the top of the stairs and point at us with a huge diamond shaped ring, telling us that she was turning us into squirrels. We would be able to see each other as kids but everyone else would see squirrels. That if we didn’t behave when we were outside playing, that she wouldn’t turn us back and we would be squirrels forever. We were all terrified of her. I was SO happy when I no longer had to attend Sunday school there. 🐿️
@@bonniemoerdyk9809 Yeah I went to Sunday school there very late 70's early 80's. Today's Methodist church is changed SO much from what it was even then.
That's what apostle Paul was talking about in the second letter to Timothy chapter 3. They are just "holding a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof". The teaching of Paul about such "churches" is to turn away from it. We have to be like the Jews in Beroea (Acts 17), examining the scriptures daily to check if what we are been told is truth. God bless you all.
In the church, my daughter and I have been going to people sit in church and drink bottles of Coke and water. I find that so disrespectful to the house of God. We are in church maybe 1.5 hours and there's a water fountain there. Church is so different these days and I don't feel at home at any of them.
I understand you - it does feel like people should be able to sit there without drinking during the service. But some have confused the worship service for a Bible study in a person's home where you might eat/drink while studying. I try to remember that because it does feel really strange to me, too.
I was raised in a blasphemous version of Christianity and attended its blasphemous services every Sunday until God led me to the true Gospel. The blasphemous 'church' and its religious practices is the Roman Catholic system where Christ the true Messiah is mocked in a subtle way which is not picked up or understood by those who don't understand this religious system and consider it to be Christian. Every Roman mass blasphemes the true Christ with its own version of Him as an inadequate messiah whose sacrifice on the cross was incomplete and only partly effective for salvation, redemption and justification and who can't save anyone without the intercession and participation His mother Mary.
Isn't our Lord God wonderful?!! Thankful He brought you out! He brought me out of a short stint in seventh-day Adventist group who also believe Jesus's death was not quite enough.
@@doremifasola9416 Actually the Mass is the perfect prayer honoring God, preaching His Word, Celebrating Jesus’ Last Supper and honoring His death on the cross. We receive His real presence in Communion which is why the Devil and his minions want us Gone.
Your key words are that you do not understand the Church. Maybe it would be good to not sling insults at something you don't know. Better yet, learn the truth about it from good teachers, apologists from the source.
I've been a Catholic all my life - 81 years - and I've never experienced blasphemy, only the joy of God's word. I'm sorry you seem to have, although I do wonder.........?
In all fairness, lots of people use the word "Hallelujah" ironically, as an expression, even placing an expletive in the middle of it without stopping to think about the etymology and actual meaning of the word. Most such utterances would be sins of ignorance, and I've probably done it myself in the past. This does not excuse it, however. When the young man in Second Samuel unthinkingly placed his hand on the Ark of the Covenant to prevent it from falling, God certainly struck him dead. I also agree that neither the Looney Tunes, nor any other secular characters, right or wrong, belong in a church worship service.
Perhaps the biggest thing was the extreme disrespect. The Ark was made with golden loops to stick golden poles through to properly carry it. Instead, they dumped it on an apparently rickety cart where it bumped along until it nearly tipped over. They transported the Ark which contained the power of the Holy Spirit like some kind of common criminal might be transported to jail rather than like a great king borne on a litter solemly.
Went to a church in Hendersonville, TN. It was known for glitter falling on people and claimed it was supernatural. Come to find out people was putting glitter in the air conditioner vents and it was blowing out on people.. Busted!
My Christian friends and I have discussed this. How churches have decided they need to 'entertain' people. Some churches even advertise what type of music you will hear. The 'tickling' of ears has become more important than actual worship. It is the result of too much entertainment and not enough educating and facts even in our newscasts. Very sad to see. 😢😢😢
I went to this large church and invited my son to the service and they had alot of children on stage dancing to Michael Jackson and actually grabbing their crouch like him.. I left the church.
Our God was pretty serious that you do not mix the holy and the profane. Heart wrenching what is happening in churches of today. We have just recently had to leave a church because they were mixing the two with so called christian songs. We are now being slandered around our community. My husband spoke with the pastor with respect and gentleness, but that doesn't seem to matter. The blessing here is that we did what the Lord directed us to do, and He has confirmed that several times. His comfort has come in when we start to question "did we do the right thing". He leads us to your channel, a channel we have never seen before today. It is amazing how the Lord works in His perfect time. Thank you for speaking the truth, for standing for the truth. May you be strengthened in your efforts.
I attended a church that is from a tradition that proclaims, "No book but the Bible, no creed but Christ." Also, "Where the Bible speaks, we speak, where the Bible is silent, we are silent." It was Easter Sunday, and at NO POINT in the service was the Resurrection mentioned! Not in the sermon, songs, prayers, announcements - NOT ONCE.
I man I once worked with told me that on Easter Sunday his church held a "sunrise service", their way of celebrating the Resurrection. He knew I was a Catholic and couldn't understand why we needed to have services on Holy Thursday or Good Friday, even when I pointed out that Jesus had to die before he could be resurrected. I went to that colleague's wedding at his church and, although the people were prayerful and respectful, it all felt a bit odd to this RC!
@@vms7996 That's a delicate question to answer openly on the internet. One wacko could misuse the information and do harm. I can only say that it was in Kokomo, IN.
Rather than assume it's all bad there are things that are appropriate to joke about and things that are not. The holy spirit should be able to tell you what is and what isn't all right to cast satire on.
@@jdbishop2697 I didn’t say every joke or form of parody was bad, but I do think that a church teaching the kids to change the words of a worship song is an example of parody going too far.
The Christian "Church" is not a building or denomination. It is the body of believers, the followers of Christ. When Christ returns for his bride,the church, it will be for his disciples only!
This is heartbreaking. Mainly because it is not a horrible exception. We haven't seen the end of this kind of thing. I haven't seen this, but many times the pulpit resembles a night-club, with the blue lighting and smoke/steam machine right before praise and worship begins. The Lord's house has become a House of Horrors, not a House of Prayer. Maranatha, Lord Jesus.
Been to one of them back in 2014\15. Reminded me of theater's bar. Same scenario-lights turned down low, young girls with the cleavage meeting the top of their thighs. I tried to ignore it and managed to last there 20 minutes, waiting for the "service" to begin...It didn't, so I left.
I walked out of the last 3 churches where I was teaching at..purely out of disgust. And I heard the argument " If you don't want to attend a sinful church, leave and reduce the number " Response...I see nowhere in the text where our Lord has any tolerance for false teaching or bad behaviour in His church. But what I do see in His word is the Day of the Lord is fast approaching!
Many years ago I heard a priest say to a former parishioner who told him that they didn't go to church any more because it's full of hypocrites, "Oh, we've always room for one more"!
I literally walked out of the Roman Catholic Church when I was 12. I sat down in the middle of a packed church, and for the first 15+ min. all I heard was how much money they took in at their bingo hall. Thanked everyone for funding the new organ they just installed, patted themselves on the back for donating the old one to the poor church. Continued to tell the entire congregation that they are not contributing enough to the church. And from now on all children should contribute $5 a week, and adults should give $20. This was in the 70's! That was my whole allowance that I had to work for! And not Once did I hear the name Jesus, or give thanks to God. I got up and walked out, even the priest stopped talking for a moment, everyone looking, I held my head high, and left the hypocrisy for good. Yes, I believe Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior! And after the latest decisions coming out of the Vatican, I think I was right. Thanks Lord 🙏 for giving me the wisdom to know the difference.
What a sad lie. The service starts with the entrance hymns and the priest and deacon come in and say the initial prayers. We ask God to forgive us then say the Glory to God prayer then the readings first from the Old Testament then Psalms then reading from Acts then the Gospel. Priest or Deacon has sermon usually based on the readings which have a common thread. Some general things might be mentioned after that but never before and then the rest of the Mass with general prayers , offertory and consecration and communion then final prayers and any closing remarks if needed. That’s how it goes in every RC church .
OFF TOPIC, a bit, but your story reminded me of my brother who died 3 years ago. He had been a Paramedic and an RN. He lived next door to a Baptist church. The church was a small congregation with a tight budget. The organ they had was quite antique, but it needed tuning that the church could not afford. The large Methodist church in town had a brand-new organ, but they wanted the beautiful antique, which they could afford to repair. They offered the Baptists an even organ - for -organ trade, which the Baptists gratefully accepted. Unfortunately, both pastors were quite elderly. They asked my brother to assist with the swap, to help with putting the organs on and off the truck. My brother agreed, but he warned them that he was on call, and if his pager went off, he would have to leave them. The Baptist minister asked, "Couldn't you tell them you're assisting with an organ transplant?"
Years ago, I drove a taxi in Sydney and there were two young priests in the back chatting as if I wasn't there. One was complaining not enough contributions were coming in. The other one laughingly said he had that problem and gave a few hard sermons on Hell. The contributions picked up after that he said. That really happened by the way...
@@T-RexRita That is not how services are done sweetie. Anywhere in any actual Roman Catholic Church and I’ve been to plenty in my lifetime. Frankly I don’t care if you dropped out or not but that is not the way a Sunday Mass goes. Talking about some side bar activity right off the bat just is not done. One would think you’d just be happy in your new life but no!!!! Got to trash your former church.
Revelation 4:11 “Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.” Psalm 90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God Genesis 2:7 Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature 2 Timothy3:16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness Isaiah 48:14 My hand laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I call to them, they stand forth together
I think many church leaders nowadays see it more as a career rather than a calling. Therefore they must entertain to keep themselves relevant rather than preaching God's Word.
Our pastor always tries being funny during the church service, even during holy communion and baptisms. After being very tolerant, we decided to stay at home. I felt guilty for a long time, but I think after hearing this and reading some of the comments, I have peace about it. Then there is the problem with the singing of songs, the same ones over and over again, while we have such a big treasure of wonderful hymns to sing. I'm so sad about it all.
I understand I have been dedicated to churches and tolerated and tolerated un-Biblical behaviors because honestly if you plan to attend a church now days you have to tolerate a lot of un-Biblical behavior. But there comes a time when enough is enough for any real Christian. I don't go to Church anymore as an older adult I got tired of trying and believe me I tried. I study Gods word and proclaim it when he opens doors. I pray, fast and worship him at home.
Hearing Christmas songs like Jingle Bells or Jingle Bell Hop over the loudspeaker in church before a christmas carol service is about to begin disturbs me because none can relate to the birth of Jesus. Christmas Carols of old have to wait their turn till the service has started.
The most blasphemous thing i ever witnessed in church was we had a guest come to play music. It was beautiful, until he played a song that was singing abiut whi has saved us and it said the soldiers and Jesus. Literally equating the two together. I was so heartbroken. This was a good church. No one seemed to notice how blasphemous that was. I almost walked out mid song, Injust desperately wanted tonget out of there and get on my knees and pray. I didnt and i regret it now. I stayed and disobeyed Gid myself by not running out and praying for those inside.
@Lauren-vd4qe that may have been a good choice too, but I literally had a picture come into my head of me walking out of the room, going to the nursery ( which was always empty) and getting on my knees and praying. I know it was the Lord instructing me on what to do and I disobeyed and sat there in the pew. I still look at that moment with shame. Confronting the man was not what the Lord asked me to do.
@noturningbackever493 we did leave. Not just for that but the direction things went after. Honestly I do believe the majority there are God loving true Christians, and maybe others felt the same way I did, but it was that nice polite Baptist kind of church. And here in the midwest people have been brainwashed to see soldiers as those who have saved our country, especially the older generations ( I was in my mid 30s and almost everyone was at least 40 years older then me) it was a patriotic song, but I was disgusted. My husband didn't even see the issue until I mentioned it afterwards. But he's not a strong Christian ( I question whether he is saved or not at all)
Small rural Baptist church; Sunday morning special a woman and a couple of girls sang Taylor Swift's song Shake it Off. Compete with the shaking. I was appalled.
God will not be mocked. I struggle with churches being ok with mobile phone bleeps going off throughout the service. Disrespectful and how is worship able to take place with this happening ?😠
This is so sad😢...... It makes me appreciate my own church so much. And it makes me wantvto say Thank God or Hallelujah for putting me and my family in the right place. Amen and Shalom my brother❤🙏 Matt as always thanks for sharing and pointing out how false some Christians has become.
When I learned that my former church was using songs from Hillsong, Bethel, Elevation, and some other heretical artist, and I learned the issue with those churches, I left. It was a church/school and Pentecostal and I had voiced my concerns in an email to one of the pastors who brushed them off essentially. I am now at a Baptist church, much smaller and doctrinally accurate. They are preaching the message that had gotten me saved about two years ago after listening to one of Ray Comfort’s videos. My parents still attend that church, and my mom isn’t interested in hearing the issues I had. My sister and brother have been attending a similar church that, based on what I have seen, seems more interested in preaching what God can do for you in this life, how to live your best life now, etc. as opposed to a message of repentance and salvation. My dad and I attended Power Morphicon, the official Power Rangers Convention, last week in Pasadena CA, and before it started, we took a tour of the Living Waters ministry nearby and got to meet Ray Comfort. My dad is now curious about the church I am attending and wants to come one day. My brother and sister experienced some worldly things at their church and may not be there much longer. I have been praying and I think God may be doing a work in their lives to get them out of those churches. Please say some prayers for them that they see the truth about their churches and about the people they listen to such as Steven Furtick, Joyce Meyer, Joel Osteen, T.D. Jakes, Lovy Elias, and more.
Unfortunately this does not surprise me. Please allow me to share my experience... I had just moved to a new area and was looking for a church to attend, just up the road from my new home was a CofE Church, so I headed there for the Sunday service, all was well. Then they made mention in the end of service announcements that they were holding an all day fund raising event in the church the following Saturday and all were invited to come along, have fun and raise some vital funds. So naturally I decided to attend this fund raising event, as soon as I set foot in the building I had an immediate sense of foreboding and unease , the reason why soon became very apparent, they had not one, but two, tarot card readers in the church building!! I left straight away and let my feelings be known to the vicar.
@@peterwallis4288 They first said they did not know that there would be tarot card readers at the event and then followed that up with "It's just harmless fun anyway"!!
I went to a church where the pastor took his Bible, threw it on the ground, and stepped on it. His point was against "Bibliolatry". The problem is, there is no such thing. Believing the Word of God can never be "Idolatry". It's God's Words, not an idol's words. In fact, John 1 says the Word is Christ Himself. If anyone preaches against "Bibliolatry", you know you aren't speaking to a Christian. That person has elevated themselves to the level of the very Word of God. They elevate themselves to the level of Christ. Do we worship the Bible itself? Of course not! But we do believe every word it says. And we do trust it far more than any man.
I once visited a church where the main Sunday service was taken by the youth leader. Instead of preaching, he organised a competition to see who could jump in and out of a huge pair of underpants the most times in 60 seconds. I was seemingly the only person in a congregation of 150+ that had a problem with this.
Years ago I visited an American church on July 4 weekend. The service began: beautiful, worship, hands lifted, eyes to the heavens. But after a while, on the overhead screens were pictures of the American flag. Hands still lifted, eyes to the heavens. And the songs turned to “America, the Beautiful,” and “My Country, Tis of Thee.” Hands lifted…. I kept thinking “they’re confused! What’s happening?” Then the picture changed to the Statue of Liberty. And I looked around the sanctuary at all. The people with their hands lifted, singing adoration to a statue of a woman. I stormed out, and my husband followed. I told him if I had stayed a moment longer I would’ve stood up and yelled! They saw nothing wrong with it. To them, patriotic “worship” was all part of their religion.
Well there is nothing wrong with this kind of particular circumstance because for one thing is those songs do still speak to our creator about something. I don't know what you learned surrounding our history but the truth is America was originally founded on Christian principles and that is one thing that genuine freedom for humanity is. The only problem is that it and all patriotic matters have all been hijacked and subverted by activists of the secular world.
@@meleshenko3767, you are right and the people who have a problem with what you’re saying are wrong. This is idolatry plain and simple. A worship service should be dedicated to the worship of God, not a country, an institution or anything else, no matter how wonderful that thing is. God is a jealous god and He will bring judgement down on this and all the other silly nonsense.
Did you know that the Statue of Liberty was really created to honor ISIS the Goddess of Fertility? It had zero to do with the French Revolution modeled after the American Revolution. It was gifted to the U.S. because the French Gov't refused to purchase it and wanted it gone from their country. Revelation in Scripture refers to the "Whore of Babylon" -- guess who that is. What you witnessed at that service was the church praising the statue of ISIS and the Whore of Babylon enticing the worshipers to lift their hands to her.
I'm part of a small congregation in the southwest. We are the oldest (1895) church in this area, member of the UMC up until several years ago. But the UMC was going hard woke and we felt we needed to get out. We thought we could quietly step out, but they sued us and put us out of our building.
@@nigelpower1509 They took the property. It was a fight for a couple years, but evidently on paper they owned it. We thought we did. But they prevailed. I don't know all the details. After our experience, the UMC announced their "graceful exit program" but too late for us LOL.
@@nigelpower1509 I haven't been following the UMC's whole situation, but they are tearing themselves apart. It's sad. But believe me, God is with us. The rest of the story is interesting too. A woman bought the property from the 'new owner' and we are now leasing it from her with an option to buy. The twist to the story is that it turns out her great grandfather donated the land for the church originally, but we didn't know that until just recently. She didn't know that either LOL God's fingerprints are all over this.
@@nigelpower1509 For a few years she was living in the church with her kids and opened the doors to some homeless people. Us being out of there served a purpose.
My husband and I went with our friends at their church to a Christmas program (a huge church) and we’d gone before the last one they had Mary and baby Jesus but had a modern young girl who had a baby out of wedlock and I felt they were comparing her to Mary. It was awful. When we left I told my husband we’d never go back there. He agreed with me. And this has been many years ago. A lot of churches are so horrific. How can people not see what’s happening. 😢😢😢😢
Attended an allegedly Christian church for a time. One Sunday evening service pastor said "Our problem in not understanding our power is failing to separate Jesus from God." It was a small church, so I raised my hand and said, "Isnt Jesus God?" Pastor said, "No, Jesus set aside all his godly nature when he was on the earth." "But pastor Don, Jesus performed miracles, he proved he was God." "But he said that we will do greater things than these." "Even so, pastor, that's only through the power he gives us. And he died for our sins." Pastor Don then said "How can God die?" Folks, THAT'S blasphemy! That was the last time I ever attended that vicious little cult.
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1:09 You brought up that churches will usually try to appeal to carnality when trying to entertain. I would love to hear you elaborate more on that, and maybe what you think churches should or shouldn't do when they are trying to entertain, perhaps this could be another video topic 🤔.
YOU KNOW ABOUT LOT OF CHURCHES ARE YOU CHURCH HOPPING GOTTA FIND ONE CHURCH AND BE AT THAT CHURCH I CANT FIND A TRUE CHURCH WHERE I LIVE THEYRE ALL ABOUT ENTERTAINMENT
I once was in a church service on ANZAC day and the person giving the communion message told us that as we take communion to remember the ANZACs. He was well intentioned but incredibly blasphemous. Bottom line is Pastors should know what people are going to say before just handing anyone the microphone.
@@hotopics877 These are various church experiences over the years. I’ve been at a good one for 9 years!
@@WillPower46 That’s crazy! Wow
So many churches are nothing more than social clubs now. God forgive us! 🙏🏻
There's a cafe ,SHOP, and a SOFT PLAY AREA in a local church .... 😢
Agreed
Very true. How sad.
“A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats” - Charles Spurgeon.
Welcome to the 21st century
Well said!!
Did he say that ? A prophecy come true.
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Father please forgive our churches . Please have mercy and guide Christians back to your righteousness. In Jesus name Amen
Amen!
AMEN.✝️🛐⚡
wont happen; dont u know we are in the end days? the antychrist is going to take power soon! thats WHY the monarchy is being dismantled and churches are being dissolved into something else! you dont recognize this?
My heart joins with you in this prayer. Amen.🙏🕯️
He can only forgive tthose who want to be forgiven.
The worst part is that “they thought it was ok” - it’s been normalised. So depressing but so in line with last days prophecy, Matt - thanks for sharing.
It's also sad that for the rest of their lives, whenever they hear Hallelujah from Handel's Messiah, the kids will think of Looney Tunes instead of the Lord.
God bless you brother for this message. A few years ago I attended a church which produced an exert from Walt Disney’s “Frozen” on stage…Walt Disney?? Frozen?? In church?? The days of both apostasy and heresy are indeed upon us. Praying for you all, brothers and sisters.
I'm curious what the point of them doing that was 🤔?
@@CLDJ227 purely to entertain the youngsters. Other strange events were happening too. I left that church in haste. God bless x
@@ritabrady7444 Interesting, perhaps if they were trying to teach some sort of christian message from it then maybe that wouldn't be a problem, but yeah church probably isn't the place for that sort of thing. The kids can get that at Disney world or something 🤔.
Nevertheless, thanks for answering and have a blessed one.
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@@LeloBoyle How so? Not arguing just asking 🤔.
I am disabled and so have been unable to attend church for a number of years. I read my Bible daily, pray, do Bible studies, read books written by godly men, listen to hymns and worship music, watch my favorite biblical pastors preach on tv and listen to godly messages from believers like yourself. I miss getting together with fellow believers and worshipping in a holy congregation but from what I've read and heard recently on the subject you raised and others spoken of in the comments, I am happy to worship my Lord and Savior in this way. It seems we all, including the church, are rushing headlong into the End Times. Jesus warned us of the false preachers and apostasy that would reign in men's hearts at the end. No other way to look at it. Thank you for your godly ministry. I pray you are well. 🙏🙏🙏✝️✝️✝️
I worship Him with you, brother, in spirit and truth. Now and especially when the dung hits the fan, remember that we all are bound together in the Spirit, not the flesh. We're a spiritual house, where the Lord dwells; not a building.
I will worship God with you as well .. We are a spiritual house , just like @leighb.-jg7bj said . A House that will never fall !! May the Lord bless us all with His presense ...
When you have to stop attending Church for any reason it is a hard process to stay on the Journey to Heaven. It is encouraging that people are still getting into the Word and discovering how they can change the way they worship.
@andrewgraham7659 I agree. I wasn't always so diligent. When I was first unable to attend, I kept thinking, "I'll get back, I'll get back," so other than praying, I didn't do a whole lot. When I began to realize I wasn't going to be able to attend. I got very sad and withdrawn. My walk suffered greatly. Then I had so many challenging events occur I noticed I was no longer trusting His word, His promises. I couldn't feel His presence. I started listening to Charles Stanley, and I bought a few of his books. He made me realize that I had allowed myself to drift away from my Lord, and that was why I couldn't feel His presence or the Holy Spirit's voice. God hadn't deserted me, I had deserted him. That's when I got back reading the Bible, I found a local Christian tv station that broadcasts Charles Stanley, David Jeremiah, Adrian Rogers (my favorite), Michael Youseef, and others. I record them and watch their services throughout the week. Their websites offer free Bible studies too. I'm not saying all this to brag but just in case someone is where I was earlier. I want to encourage ppl to get back in the word. Without that, we can't hope to know what God wants of us or how to glorify him regardless of our abilities. I was once very active in my church. My husband would groan every time the pastor would ask for volunteers bc he knew my hand would go up. Little by little, I had to relinquish my roles in each ministry. It was not easy, and I mourned each loss, but God is good and had something else planned for me. I have grown so much closer to the Lord. My disability has turned into a blessing. We know that the Lord does that all the time. My mom used to say, "When God closes a door, He opens a window." Sorry to go on and on, but I think someone out there, I don't know who or when, needs to see this and be encouraged. Bless you 🙏🙏🙏✝️✝️✝️
God saved me out of Babylon (churchianity) more than ten years ago. Losing Christian friends was hard at first, but it's nothing in comparison to the joy of fellowship with God. "Come out of her my people saith the LORD".
The threat to the church comes not so much from outside but inside.
Goats and weeds in a church are an indication of a poorly kept church.
That's because the church has allowed the wolves in.
I cannot believe that out churches have become like the world. For example why are people allowed to take communion (believers or non believers) without thoroughly addressing it other than Jesus saying do this in remembrance of me. Taking communion in an unworthy manner. I can’t believe that I’ve done that all of these years without knowing it in the first place. It’s so appalling that goats and sheep are allowed to join hands in worship. I won’t take communion until I’ve fully repented of my sins whatever it may be
There's no threat to the church. It's just an extension of the beast. All Christians vote for Satan
Veddy troo!☝️
Churches don’t become worldly and apostate overnight. It happens bit by bit, day by day and compromise by compromise until God is completely replaced. This is why I think it’s spiritually dangerous for an awake God fearing Christian to continue attending such a church once they become aware of the state of it.
“Anytime you go to look for the devil in the church house, don’t forget to look behind the pulpit!”-Dr. Adrian Rogers
Another Adrianism!! I have his book with all his sayings. Got to know him and he was an amazing man of God!!! He is missed!!
yes youll usually find him (edit: the devil) preaching God is triune and God is Jesus from beind that pulpit
Dr. Rogers was my spiritual dad. We had him for 10 years.
I've listened to Adrian Rogers for years. Great, solid Bible teacher!
@@jesusisthechristthesonofgod Who spoke from the Burning Bush? Whom did Jude say led the Israelites out of Egypt in a cloud? Who is "The Cloud Rider"? Why did the Pharisees seek his death for calling himself the Son of Man (Bar Enes)? What is the difference between 'Ben Adam' and 'Bar Enes' in the Bible?
Jesus said "don't cry for Me, cry for yourselves and your children."
I went to a catholic mass in my remote town in Australia, the children were taken off to Sunday school and towards the end of the mass, the children came back and showed the priest their drawings. It was beautiful. The father was one of a kind, he had so much patience with the young ones.
I was a Catholic before God saved me through his son Jesus. I say this in love… the Roman Catholic Church is not representing the true God and the true Jesus who is Gods son.
@@gregm55mullen62 Yet she is the one who gave you the Bible... Time for you to read some history for yourself... You should check the Council of Rome 382 A.D under the leadership of Pope Damasus I that set the Canon of the Scripture (Old and New Testament of the Bible)... Then read some Church's Fathers writings, etc. Everything the Church teaches can be backed up by the Bible, the councils, and the apostolic tradition...
You obviously do not know your history or true Scripture. The RC has their own dogma which they use in addition to the RC bible which is absolutely not what was taught by the early Church called the Way.
The RC Church was built on a mixture of Christian teaching and Paganism.
This Church theology is leading many to hell.
Follow only the early apostles teaching. Nothing else.
Tradition is not Scripture.
There is no limit to the blasphemy. It goes to extremes in this age.
Look at what happened in England just last week. The " church " of England has officially announced that their facilities will no longer be called CHURCHES. Because it's offensive and oppressive to people of other faiths. They are asking their priests to de-emphasize Sunday services and offer nature walks and world event talks instead of preaching. They wish now to be known as state sponsored " Community Centers ".
That's the word from " good ol' England ".
It's blasphemous in the extreme and it's a disgrace on a once Christian nation.
I am from the UK and I heard years ago someone say '' The devil is setting up his kingdom in the church of England'' A prophecy come true. Totally disgraceful
England is now officially an Apostate nation. 😢
Was it ever a christian nation? Not being factious, I'm actually asking 🤔.
Also, it sounds like that church is doing the equivalent of some Schools that want to censor books because their use of certain pronouns may "offend" someone, because somehow every little minor thing out there is supposedly offending someone somewhere 🤨.
@@CLDJ227 Like how blasphemy offends you? God doesn't exist. The afterlife doesn't exist. Your body produces DMT when you die so you are just tripping balls. I tried DMT and "saw God" too.
Is that the one and only official church in the country?
Blasphemy...pray for children and youth to have personal encounters with the LORD JESUS...❤
How do you "have a personal encounter" with The LORD???? Explain? HE hasn't returned, yet. He is risen and. Hasn't come back in glory to rule with a. Rod of iron. I hope you don't go through Bethel Redding type "churches", a lot.of unsound teachings and doctrines from those kind. Social clubs, in My experience.
@@fortis6258we are required to have a continuing personal relationship with Jesus Christ after we've accepted him as our Lord and Savior. Our daily devotional can be considered to be an "encounter" with the Holy Spirit.
Baptise them in the Holy Spirit .. can be a tabgible presence
This is so disgusting, that they thought that was ok. Words fail me, as terribly sad . God’s name be praised always and forever!
I didn't witness this personally but there is a mega "church" in a city I used to live in. Some people I knew went to services one evening. As they were sitting in the pews the pastor, worship team (whatever you want to call it) was asking folks if they needed a Bible. Some responded yes. The team of people up front grabbed Bibles out of boxes and began throwing them out into the crowd!
God's Word is something sacred that should be treated with respect.
I was in a church where the pastor in his sermon used quotes from a Harry Potter book ! The UK is in dire straits! I am reminded of the 300 warriors in Gideon's army for the Lord. Better to have 300 on fire people of God ! Have mercy on us O Lord we so desperately need you!" Come Lord Jesus Come "
There is only one person (okay, and his followers) in the Harry Potter books who uses witchcraft in the sense of the bible, and that is the bad guy. He is defeated by the heroe’s self sacrifice.
May God have mercy on their souls, especially the children they are leading astray 😳🕊✝
Thank you Matthew, for communicating this sad message.
Going back decades ago, I was mentioning to people at a conservative church about a different church where people dressed up as clowns and preached the gospel. If memory serves me correctly, it wasn’t just for kids. I found the idea of dressing up as a clown and preaching the gospel to be blasphemous. I noticed an older couple sitting at the table looked offended. Finally, the woman said, through an angry face, “he and I are BOTH registered clowns!” And apparently, they had preached the gospel as clowns. They went on to pretty much rebuke me as if I was the clown in the situation. I was stunned. I remember a few people at the table struggling to contain their laughter in the face of someone angrily proclaiming to not just be a clown, but a REGISTERED clown.
😂😂😂😂God help us
Clowns don't belong in church.Ever since John Wayne Gacy,I really don't feel comfortable around clowns.If I offended any clowns,sorry but not really.
We need Jesus NOW
Was this in Door County (Wisconsin)?
@@MyPoptART Deep South (US).
Lord, forgive us and heal us. Amen.
I've experienced a few disappointments with the church and these are just a couple: I attended an Easter service where the arrival of Jesus on a donkey to celebrate passover and then, the time before his crucifixion when the crowds were witnessing Pontius Pilote sentencing him to death was being recounted. Instead of asking the congregation to interact by waving our palm crosses as they did when Jesus was entering Jerusalem, they asked us to wave our fists in the air and shout, "crucify him" when he was being sentenced. I was visibly shocked as were a few others, as most of the congregation did as they were asked... & I felt the darkness present in church that day. More recently, I was visiting a well known Cathedral City in Wiltshire with my Husband... It was on a Sunday and we wanted to see the Cathedral. However, when we got to the religious site, there was a swing band playing a Blues Brothers track and several people were jiving in front of the main entrance... We were just as disgusted as some of the tourists there, with one commenting that they thought it was meant to be a place where people pray? 🤨
I went to a first communion service and when the children were lined up to enter the church about half the parents were standing on the pews taking photographs and videos and talking loudly. I couldn’t believe the level of disregard for reverence BY THE PARENTS in front of their children. I’m happy they were happy about the event, but it sent a wrong message about the solemnity of the religious event. It’s not like this was a football game or high school graduation, but it was treated like it was. The kids didn’t care one iota for Holy Communion. It was just something they were doing because that was just what everyone else was doing. When we treat something holy like it is mundane we profane it. I wasn’t so much outraged at the parents but sad that so many of them didn’t seem to have a clue about why just being happy about that day wasn’t enough to sanctify the event. They turned it into a party with revelry and treated the graciousness of God like it’s an ordinary snack. I want to morn and cry when I see this.
We left a failing Methodist church because they went woke and affirmed all sorts of unbiblical things. They even had a tarot card reading table at one of their church festivals.
That isn't "woke", that's just blasphemous. "Woke" would be showing concern for the hurting and marginalized and outcasts and what they're suffering, and what to do to reach out to them in that suffering.
@@denisemayosky1955 "Woke" has come to mean affirming any and all perverse behaviors, even those specifically identified as evil in the Bible. Affirming sin is not "showing concern." It is enabling someone to continue in their lostness.
What you state as the definition of woke I would say simply describes Christian love. But "woke" and love are not interchangeable.
@@yayayoma "Woke" has become the new "four-letter word" for conservatives. They throw it onto anything they don't like. And the word "woke" - from what I heard - was in use way before this whole latest version of the "left/right" debate.
@@denisemayosky1955or allowing homosexuality in church is woke. Getting with “ the times”.
@@denisemayosky1955 Every generation thinks they are more enlightened than the last. I'd say it's part arrogance, part ignorance, part naivete. "Woke" is just the latest incarnation of this.
If you mean love, why not just say love?
We once attended a fund-raiser for a Christian organization. A dinner and theater. The show they chose to re-enact was a fairy tale that entailed the students casting spells. I remember sitting there in stunned disbelief The worst part was everyone around us was laughing and enjoying it, I guess because it was a well-known fairy tail that most people think of as harmless. Many of the people there were Christian, but it was also an outreach to the community. And this was the best they could do to represent Christ??
The scripture came to me; "it would have been better to have a millstone tied around your neck......offend these little ones". What's worse is that the kids performing this show would have had to practice the spells multiple times. God help us. What have we allowed in our "churches" today in the name of entertainment??!!
casting spells? SURELY you stood up in the MIDDLE of the play and LOUDLY DECLARED that CASTING SPELLS is an EVIL THING and magic sorcery is CONDEMNED in the BIBLE!!!
It is difficult to soar like an eagle when you are surrounded by a bunch of turkeys!! Or, sheep need to be fed while goats need to be entertained!
We went to a seeker sensitive church that once played the song “What If God Was One Of Us.” Totally blasphemous, the chorus being
“what if G_d was one of us?
just a slob like one of us?”
We switched churches. It was just too disrespectful, and no one else seemed to notice. It was crazy.
Wow
What's wrong with that ? The song means "treat everyone you meet like you're meeting God"... Sounds pretty Christian to me.
Sure does--if you find nothing wrong with a worldly song sung in what's supposed to be the house of God.
There are thousands of HOLY, God inspired hymns, usually found in "red back hymnals," and online.
no need to choose a song that tries to sound Christian, but isn't.
Deception in churches are very strong. Satan will do anything to offer a counterfeit; even if it means changing the once sacred songs to trash.
@@evelynspaghetti4978 What if God was just a slob like us? Uhhhhhh. No. We are sinners, he is holy. We are low; he is exalted. We are created, likened to clay and dust. He is eternal, immortal, infallible, ever-present, omniscient, all-powerful, self-existent; He is life, light, breath. Nothing exists that did not come to existence without him, but he came from no one, depends on no one, never dies, never had to be born, never lied or sinned, and certainly He is
not
a slob
like us.
@@evelynspaghetti4978
"If God had a name, what would it be?"
(God DOES have a name! many names, in fact.)
"If God had a face, what would it look like?
And would you want to see
If seeing meant that you would have to believe
In things like Heaven and in Jesus and the saints
And all the prophets?"
(The writer thinks believing in God is not a good thing. She also does not believe that Jesus is God.)
"Just tryin' to make his way home
Back up to Heaven all alone
Nobody callin' on the phone
Except for the Pope, maybe, in Rome"
(Nor does the writer know that God has tens of thousands of angels and other Heavenly creatures in constant attendance and
offering unending praise and worship, saying "Holy! Holy! Holy!")
Wolves in sheep's clothing have been sneaking into our churches for a long time unnoticed. Finally we are noticing.
“The church” , if you can even call it that anymore, is in such a state . I’ve seen something similar with circus performers hanging form the ceiling and The Grinch entertaining in a SERVICE at Christmas at Houston’s First Baptist, a repugnant place that Christ would spit out of His Mouth. With the constant money grubbing and more more more building, too many pastors, vocational worship leaders and pastors, whose four kids WE are supposed to put through college and whose wife needs her nails and hair done and a big new car, even when we can’t do these things for our own families, I am sick to death of the American church, the western church, whatever you wanna call it . what happened to the notion that Paul gave people - do as I do, if you can- and our Lord and savior who had nowhere to lay his head?
After 35 years in the church, as a believer, I can honestly say that there is absolutely nowhere for me to go, ( and I’ve visited over a hundred churches in my current horrible area) and I feel NO guilt. As a matter of fact, I feel a giant weight has been lifted off of my chest.
For anyone who’s interested in commenting on not forsaking the believers, I have plenty of Christian friends that I get to together with and discuss the Bible and the Lord’s doctrines. Matter fact, I’m doing that tomorrow night. please show me in the Bible where it describes anything that looks like the church today. You can't find it.
People, if you are leaving your church after service in absolute anguish and sick and grieving in your heart and soul-- that’s the Holy Spirit. Get out of there as fast as you can and don’t look back. Don’t feel guilty. It is not your fault and you are certainly not alone.
A light in my head came on when you wrote "is in such a state." Worldwide, governments are legislating more and more things about faith and appropriate activities, especially days and times. Can we not respect all peoples and their beliefs? Church and State need to be separate. Throughout history, theocracy has led to nothing but death and destruction. God Bless us all. I agree that the church mentioned in the video was wrong, but let us give the problem to God, in Jesus' Name and for His sake. Amen.
Been in your shoes for years. Wife and I try to find a church every now and then but can’t fit in. Our fellowship with Christians is in homes and we love it.
This you stated is why I left all "western", "protestant", "non-denoms" and went to the Eastern Orthodox. There is true worship in liturgy, the work of the people. There it is centered around the Eucharist which is Christ's presence. You may want to give it a try.
I would STAND UP and LOUDLY DECLARE the grinch stuff in the church AS EVIL, and SAY IT LOUDLY during the performance!
@@olerocker3470 - We spent a few years in a conservative liturgical church (Anglican) and it was probably the best of the bunch, however it was pretty dead spiritually.
You shouldn't be surprised. This is the last days where evil will increase more and more.
Similar to Kenneth Copeland in a meeting he held walking to people in the front row and showing them his watch he is wearing that costs thousands of dollars😮
And thanking them for their generous “ tithes”??
When intrusive thoughts try to invade my mind, i will drive them out by the word of God. I will not give the negative and ungodly thoughts space to overcome God's word in my heart and will speak the words of God and let them crumble under His power and glory. I will speak life over myself and over my loved ones. In Jesus mighty name. 🙏 🙏
It is a sign of the times. Thank you for the video.
I’m speechless. We also turned God’s altar into a stage which is why I stopped playing on worship teams. Now I’m dealing with major illnesses so I live in the middle of nowhere and destroyed my body thinking I was doing what was best for my wife and kids. My 40 year old son is running the business now and I’m praying and believing for a miracle. But I just can’t believe how anyone whose been a believer for a decent length of time would find this alright:
Forgive us Lord for letting Satan and his demons get into your meeting place’s. My heart is where the Holy Spirit resides praise God. But this just tells me we’re that much closer to His return.
Lord Bless. I haven’t seen you come up in my feed in a very long time. I pray your health has improved greatly. Keep Looking Up!
I’ve been a denominational church goer my whole life, but it’s these sorts of things as well as others that make it increasingly difficult to trust going to any, denominational or not.
I heard a preacher say once that men never sin unless some woman entices them to. He was teaching from Bill Gothard's books. I guess that means that males aren't responsible for their sins.
I wasn't in a church service, but one time while having dinner someone thought that we should partake of communion together since we weren't able to attend church that Sunday. Someone had some whiskey and suggested we drink that from shot glasses instead of wine. I was appalled and refused. Perhaps I'm being legalistic, but it seemed irreverent to replace wine with whiskey. Some thought I was being too uptight. It didn't sit right with me at all so I refused to participate.
You were right to refuse and if you have a spouse they should have supported you.
You were clearly having dinner with people who had absolutely no understanding of the seriousness of what they were suggesting. They should read what Paul says about such behaviour in 1 Corinthians 11:27.
@@MisterN0b0dy Exactly
Good for you!! God does not mix with this world.
I live in a small town, so we don’t have big churches. I joined a church, then later on was asked to hold “kids church” after the worship service. I loved it. Then Christmas rolled around, the pastor’s wife was planning to deck out the church in Christmas trees all over the place. It seemed so over done. When she wanted to talk to me about the Christmas program with the kids, I expected them to sing a praise song but she and the worship leader decided the kids would sing Leonard Cohen’s song Alleluia. I already knew the lyrics , disgusted by them when I first read them after the song became popular.
I asked them if they knew the lyrics. Their eyebrows shot up and they looked insulted, of course we do, the pastor’s wife replied.
I gave her the keys I had, told her thank you but I am not going to teach the kids to sing that song. I walked out and never looked back.
I felt like crud but the Lord is so good. The next day I saw online an interesting article about a Russian village, deep in the mountains. Many of the people had shrines of icons in their homes but the part that blew my mind was the photos of their worship center, located in the forest, surrounded by very tail trees but in the area which would be the central worship, there was a cluster of fir trees. These people worshipped these trees bc they don’t go dormant like the forest trees. This is why fir trees do not belong in the home or church. I asked The Father why do we have Christmas trees. He told me that in the winter it was too cold to go into the forest to worship the trees, so they cut them down and brought them inside so that they could worship. Read Jeremiah 10. Did you know Christmas trees were introduced by the German immigrants and were banned until the 1800’s? There is much pagan worship in Europe, look at the Olympic ceremonies held in EU countries, the symbolism is astounding. You may want to look into the grand opening ceremony when CERN was completed. Sorry this is so long. If you made it this far, God bless you and please don’t hate me for pointing out the godless nature of Christmas trees. Don’t be fooled by others who say they represent the tree of the cross.
We've known about the Scripture that talks about bringing trees into the house, and while I agree with you (Jeremiah 10), that's not what that Scripture meant, however to us we took it to mean it that way anyway.
It was very hard on our children, seeing friends from the neighborhood and school having trees in the house, but not us.
As they got older, they understood.
We spoke against Santa Claus and instead told them that Jesus provided the money for us to get them presents.
After awhile, they didn't mind.
In Cohen's defense, he is a Jew. He said he wrote the song because he liked the idea of thousands of people singing the word "Hallelujah."
For those who may not know, "Hallelujah" is a word known in most languages. It means, "Praise God." BUT not just any god. It has the name of the true God imbedded in the word. It means "Praise YHVH."
But his statements about the song indicated that it was meant to be sung to secular audiences. THAT fact should be as obvious to Christians as it is to Jews.
@Packhorse-bh8qn Well, someone had mentioned that the lyrics were offensive. I agree that they were never meant to be sung in a church (or Temple), but I think the intent of the writer of this secular song was good.
@Packhorse-bh8qn Indeed. And the pews in those entertainment halls are always quite full. My father used to say, "If the majority are doing it, it's probably wrong."
Leonard Cohen's use of alleluia isn't blasphemous, whereas Handel could certainly be thought so. My Jesus brings comfort to the wounded, doest compose paeans to kings. It belongs to the same error as the prosperity gospel.
Anytime a “church” has a “stage,” you know it’s not a real one. Churches are not entertainment venues. They don’t have stages.
Or if the Church is used as a stage for non-religious functions, especially entertainment.
Well, it's nice to have a stage for the kids' Christmas and Easter plays, but I get your point.
@PapaBear-k4k Christmas and Easter huh? Wow.
I follow Jesus and you wouldn't catch me having anything to do with those pagan holidays.
@@chellejack3480 You're one of those, huh?
@@PapaBear-k4kyup! Me too.
The worst thing I recall, that took place at Greenbelt (a large Christian family event) in the UK, was to replace the bread and wine with champagne and chocolates in a communion service.
How awful. I’m RC - so such a thing is worse than blasphemy. 🥲
thats upsetting
😮
Good grief!
I hope others also walked out. We left church years ago..i cannot stand when they are supposed to be singing worship and all are talking about the BBQ they are having later. Its not tolerable for a true believer to be in church in my opinion..bible studies and worship at home are fine with my family. God bless you and thank you for exposing evil. I believe the one world religion of the antichrist will start right in the churches.the true believers will be the bible believers
Who will not compromise for the false love and false peace of the antichrist.
That’s what bulletins are for…. To inform congregation of things going on
You are right to call it blasphemous. I suspect the stoopid intentional play on words originated with ignorance. They didn’t think beyond the intent to entertain, both children and adults, thinking it to be cute and funny. Being joyful in church needs to be focused on the Lord. Children can find enjoyment in knowing God loves them. They need to know that hallelujah is praise to God, and that “hallelooney” is praise to “looney”… which is quite meaningless, and an inappropriate context in which to make fun out of words. Praise God for His long suffering with the foolishness of human beings. He loves us immeasurably.
When I moved into my new house, I went to my local church. It had a children's play group every Tuesday. We were told the children would be doing the Christmas Nativity next weekend.
Off I went to see them I was surprised that none of the children had costumes on, they had coats hats backpacks on.
Well, the "Nativity " started in the theme of a cartoon "Dora the explora" with a child wondering around looking for a bear ...I lost track of what on Earth was going on. It never even related to the birth of our saviour at all.
I did let my feelings be known along with a lot of other people. It never happened again. Just shocking that a church going adult thought that this was acceptable.!
My mum used to play that song allulah 😮
The most crazy thing I’ve seen is people laying on the floor laughing hysterically and the pastor leader saying that’s the work of the Holy Spirit 😶
Sounds more like the kundalini spirit :(
Hope she left.
I believe it's spirit filled...demonic spirits 😈😈
When I was young, we went w/my cousins to their Nanny's church. My cousins are ELCA Lutheran, and sis and I were Anderson Church of God (very similar to Nazerene). We were beyond shocked when one lady started rolling down the aisle!! Everyone was babbling like crazy. They seemed to think the lady rolling around was normal. But my cousins and I were trying our best not to snicker and laugh out loud, the most my sis and I were used to ... was Dad or one of the other men would say "Amen" to verse spoken by the preacher! And my cousins didn't even hear that in their church!
I was raised in the Church of God-Anderson, Indiana near Pittsburgh. My parents and sister are rejoicing in heaven because of the their true belief in Jesus Christ. Thankfully l have never experienced such blasphemy. All will be set to right in that great day in Glory.
You are absolutely right! I have played this beautiful song from the Messiah … so moving and reverent. My blood would have turned cold if a mockery had been made of it and that’s exactly what that church did. I’m with you… I’d never go back!!
Worst thing I ever saw in church was when I was visiting my mom in the Deep South of the US. What is commonly known as “The Bible Belt”. When we arrived for Service at this Southern Baptist Church, we noticed how different the altar looked. The Remembrance Table with the open bible had disappeared. It had been replaced by the drum kit. For the band. It just felt so wrong.
Once they allow all the world's instruments in, that need the church.
Google how churches accepted drums--and what they were for in ancient dsys.
Read a book titled "Crisis in Christian Music," by Dr. Jack Wheaton, or " The Big Beat, " by Frank Garlock. "
Either one of them will let you know why rock style music should never be in e church in any form.
I meant " that ended the church, " but I typed it incorrectly.
If your church has a drum it doesn't have The Lord.
I went to a Presby church and it was the same thing, drum kit, lead, rhythm and bass guitars, keyboard,.. full set up. Young people played music but there was never a sermon, no mention of God or Jesus at all, just music.
@@pauldelaney5990 I won't attend a church with a band. Choir only for me.
I feel embarrassed going to a church.. absolutely disgusting..I heard they were showing film nights..one was violent, people walked out..
A lot of the problem stems from the fact that many pastors are not born again themselves and they are not indwelled by the Holy Spirit.
This breaks my heart. May God's glory reign forever and ever and ever. Hallelujah !!!! Lord we praise you. Forgive us Lord.
WELL HIGHLIGHTED FELLA..... its grieving to hear of this, but we do know that the end times will reveal an apostate church where there has been a great falling away...😥
That’s exactly what’s happening. We ain’t seen nothing yet!!!
Sheep spend their whole life fearing the wolf only to be eaten by the shepherd
Once went to a church at Christmas. The text that the pastor preached from was the song “Santa clause is coming to town”. His point was to be good for goodness sake.
Wow!! Appalling…
Well, God is goodness, so that's true. I'm guessing he didn't make that connection, though.
Huh?
The malaise of modern day non denominational denominations is how worship has been replaced by entertainment
It was not a church service, but at a regional retreat, my church and several others in our fellowship held one fall for high school students. This was in 1973. About 80 students from around our state attended. It was sponsored by one of the "Christian" Universities we supported. We bunked five HS students to a room with one college student as a "mentor." Our "mentor," a senior, had a terrible understanding of scripture and barely any grasp of sound doctrine or theology. Now, I admit I was a bit precocious and had studied the Word quite a bit by my 18th birthday, but I was unprepared for the utter lack of preparedness shown by this fellow who was supposedly studying for the ministry!
However, I was taken aback when he listed Alvin Toffler (author of Future Shock and others) along with Daniel and other prophets! I read Toffler's book when I was a sophomore (like I said, precocious!), and he never claimed to be a prophet. I pointed this out to our "mentor" and asked if he knew what the test of a prophet was.
"Oh, that's just Old Testament mythology. No one believes that anymore."
I don't know if he ever was ordained, but if he was, I pray his eyes were opened before he did too much damage!
Our local church left the fellowship and became independent by 1974.
I believe we are witnessing the Falling Away as the number of churches and denominations that have turned away from the Gospel seems to be growing.
Hallelujah is actually praising God by name
Brother, what we are seeing in the Churches today, is like 6 of the 7 Churches in Chapters 2 and 3 of the Book of Revelation that Jesus describes. Just think, Jesus finds fault with 6 out of 7 Churches. Church has become watered down with no Gospel being preached and no souls being saved. Indeed very sad.
Yes this is happening!! It’s so sad as churches today is like going to a disco!! There is no teachings of the Bible and the traditional hymns seems to be replaced with songs that doesn’t make sense no humbleness not praised properly!! I would rather stay home and educate myself with the bible!!
That is pretty pathetic. House's of worship have become nothing more than theaters for the things this WORLD loves best. Adding what the warped and perverted entertainment industry offers up to a Church service is about as ungodly as you can get. Every member of that Church leaves just as biblically illiterate as when they walked in. They will then talk about the SHOW they witnessed instead of talking about what they should have learned about God and his word. Most Churches today, beyond salvation and Holy Spirit baptism are worthless as far as what they offer their congregations. They never progress in Biblical knowledge beyond the baby level.🤟🏼✌🏼💪🏼🙏🏼🇺🇸🇦🇺
Right on. In the western world the mainstream church has been neutered.
I'm glad you're calling it out. My church had a lady do a bible reading which she did from her NWT bible translation and no one including the pastor picked up on it. Even when pointed out it wasn't a problem.
Last week a lady shared in church that she was 'deconstructing' her faith. To throw away all the problematic parts of the bible and rebuild a new version of her truth. There were lots of tears and hugs.
We had a service that was an interview between the pastor and a church elder who told us that no one understands most of the bible and it doesn't make sense anyway so he feels close to God by listening to music. Secular music is just as good for that as christian music.
I'm like the frog in slowly boiling water. Its been creeping in so slowly I can't figure out when to jump out. Something like this happens every single week. Church just makes me really sad these days.
Please do a video on leaving a church. I don't know how to leave without causing a lot of hurt and damage. Should you speak up knowing its on deaf ears or just stop going? Its not a big church and I host the ladies groups and have been attending for years. I never miss anything but I can't stomach it anymore.
Just leave. If your church is already doing these things then its gone. Your leaving may wake up the few ppl looking for guidance and leadership. I went and talked to the pastor of my church before l left. I explained to him all the problems l had with what was happening and not happening. He made up excuses. I went to another church and God blessed me there from the very beginning. I was greatly relieved.
YOU need to start STANDING UP and BEING BOLD about calling out that crap in CHURCH!!
Best you follow what the Spirit of God is telling you: time leave and don't look back.
Will it hurt? Yes, but it's better to listen and obey that "still small voice" than to be disobedient to the leading of God.
@@noturningbackever493 yes but DONT LEAVE QUIETLY! stand UP and CALL them on it!! in the midst of evil being displayed in any church, you need to stand UP in the midst of it and call it OUT!!
@@noturningbackever493 We marched OUT of our church when i noticed in the paper bulletin that a halloween party was being held. I emailed the pastor and told him WHAT THE #### is a CHURCH doing having halloween parties??? He replied oh come to the church office and lets have a chat! I declined. I told my home group leader about this, they seemed nonplussed! I said if the church decided to do something that the Bible said was wrong, which wd you obey? she hesitated, then said she wd contact the church. so i sd you wd obey a church instead of the Bible? no response....we didnt go back!
When I was a little kid (5 or 6) my mom would make me attend Sunday School at a Methodist church. The Sunday school teacher would stand at the top of the stairs and point at us with a huge diamond shaped ring, telling us that she was turning us into squirrels. We would be able to see each other as kids but everyone else would see squirrels. That if we didn’t behave when we were outside playing, that she wouldn’t turn us back and we would be squirrels forever. We were all terrified of her.
I was SO happy when I no longer had to attend Sunday school there.
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Ah...The preacher let a witch in to teach children, huh?
Sadly, Methodists were pretty decent several decades back, but somewhere in the 60's, it started to slip doctrinally.
@@bonniemoerdyk9809 Yeah I went to Sunday school there very late 70's early 80's. Today's Methodist church is changed SO much from what it was even then.
You must have been happy, I think I would have too. Doesn't make any sense, and I don't think Wesley would have approved!
That's what apostle Paul was talking about in the second letter to Timothy chapter 3. They are just "holding a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof". The teaching of Paul about such "churches" is to turn away from it. We have to be like the Jews in Beroea (Acts 17), examining the scriptures daily to check if what we are been told is truth. God bless you all.
In the church, my daughter and I have been going to people sit in church and drink bottles of Coke and water. I find that so disrespectful to the house of God. We are in church maybe 1.5 hours and there's a water fountain there. Church is so different these days and I don't feel at home at any of them.
The Christian’s are the house of God.
Some offer coffee and doughnuts.
I understand you - it does feel like people should be able to sit there without drinking during the service. But some have confused the worship service for a Bible study in a person's home where you might eat/drink while studying. I try to remember that because it does feel really strange to me, too.
Matthew 12: 2-8
@@beckypetersen2680 Since when did God say it was okay to enter into His courts with coffee and doughnuts? The church is hardly recognizable today.
So sad. When we lived in England there was a 'Christmas' service where the children got entertained by a lady doing magic... Couldn't believe it!
I was raised in a blasphemous version of Christianity and attended its blasphemous services every Sunday until God led me to the true Gospel. The blasphemous 'church' and its religious practices is the Roman Catholic system where Christ the true Messiah is mocked in a subtle way which is not picked up or understood by those who don't understand this religious system and consider it to be Christian. Every Roman mass blasphemes the true Christ with its own version of Him as an inadequate messiah whose sacrifice on the cross was incomplete and only partly effective for salvation, redemption and justification and who can't save anyone without the intercession and participation His mother Mary.
1 Tim 2:5 ONE mediator...and its NOT HER!!
Isn't our Lord God wonderful?!! Thankful He brought you out! He brought me out of a short stint in seventh-day Adventist group who also believe Jesus's death was not quite enough.
@@doremifasola9416 Actually the Mass is the perfect prayer honoring God, preaching His Word, Celebrating Jesus’ Last Supper and honoring His death on the cross. We receive His real presence in Communion which is why the Devil and his minions want us Gone.
Your key words are that you do not understand the Church. Maybe it would be good to not sling insults at something you don't know. Better yet, learn the truth about it from good teachers, apologists from the source.
I've been a Catholic all my life - 81 years - and I've never experienced blasphemy, only the joy of God's word. I'm sorry you seem to have, although I do wonder.........?
In all fairness, lots of people use the word "Hallelujah" ironically, as an expression, even placing an expletive in the middle of it without stopping to think about the etymology and actual meaning of the word. Most such utterances would be sins of ignorance, and I've probably done it myself in the past. This does not excuse it, however. When the young man in Second Samuel unthinkingly placed his hand on the Ark of the Covenant to prevent it from falling, God certainly struck him dead. I also agree that neither the Looney Tunes, nor any other secular characters, right or wrong, belong in a church worship service.
Perhaps the biggest thing was the extreme disrespect. The Ark was made with golden loops to stick golden poles through to properly carry it. Instead, they dumped it on an apparently rickety cart where it bumped along until it nearly tipped over. They transported the Ark which contained the power of the Holy Spirit like some kind of common criminal might be transported to jail rather than like a great king borne on a litter solemly.
Went to a church in Hendersonville, TN. It was known for glitter falling on people and claimed it was supernatural. Come to find out people was putting glitter in the air conditioner vents and it was blowing out on people.. Busted!
lol!
My Christian friends and I have discussed this. How churches have decided they need to 'entertain' people. Some churches even advertise what type of music you will hear. The 'tickling' of ears has become more important than actual worship. It is the result of too much entertainment and not enough educating and facts even in our newscasts. Very sad to see. 😢😢😢
I went to this large church and invited my son to the service and they had alot of children on stage dancing to Michael Jackson and actually grabbing their crouch like him.. I left the church.
Our God was pretty serious that you do not mix the holy and the profane. Heart wrenching what is happening in churches of today. We have just recently had to leave a church because they were mixing the two with so called christian songs. We are now being slandered around our community. My husband spoke with the pastor with respect and gentleness, but that doesn't seem to matter. The blessing here is that we did what the Lord directed us to do, and He has confirmed that several times. His comfort has come in when we start to question "did we do the right thing". He leads us to your channel, a channel we have never seen before today. It is amazing how the Lord works in His perfect time. Thank you for speaking the truth, for standing for the truth. May you be strengthened in your efforts.
I attended a church that is from a tradition that proclaims, "No book but the Bible, no creed but Christ." Also, "Where the Bible speaks, we speak, where the Bible is silent, we are silent." It was Easter Sunday, and at NO POINT in the service was the Resurrection mentioned! Not in the sermon, songs, prayers, announcements - NOT ONCE.
Wow
I man I once worked with told me that on Easter Sunday his church held a "sunrise service", their way of celebrating the Resurrection. He knew I was a Catholic and couldn't understand why we needed to have services on Holy Thursday or Good Friday, even when I pointed out that Jesus had to die before he could be resurrected. I went to that colleague's wedding at his church and, although the people were prayerful and respectful, it all felt a bit odd to this RC!
Where is this church please?
@@vms7996 That's a delicate question to answer openly on the internet. One wacko could misuse the information and do harm. I can only say that it was in Kokomo, IN.
So sad!! Thankyou for sharing... God bless you!!! ❤
Parody and mockery is so rampant in our culture that people probably don't even know the difference between Holiness and another joke anymore.
Rather than assume it's all bad there are things that are appropriate to joke about and things that are not. The holy spirit should be able to tell you what is and what isn't all right to cast satire on.
@@jdbishop2697 I didn’t say every joke or form of parody was bad, but I do think that a church teaching the kids to change the words of a worship song is an example of parody going too far.
The Christian "Church" is not a building or denomination. It is the body of believers, the followers of Christ. When Christ returns for his bride,the church, it will be for his disciples only!
This is heartbreaking. Mainly because it is not a horrible exception. We haven't seen the end of this kind of thing. I haven't seen this, but many times the pulpit resembles a night-club, with the blue lighting and smoke/steam machine right before praise and worship begins. The Lord's house has become a House of Horrors, not a House of Prayer. Maranatha, Lord Jesus.
That’s not the Lords house. The people are Gods house. That is just man made meetings
Been to one of them back in 2014\15.
Reminded me of theater's bar.
Same scenario-lights turned down low, young girls with the cleavage meeting the top of their thighs.
I tried to ignore it and managed to last there 20 minutes, waiting for the "service" to begin...It didn't, so I left.
"Cheater's bar...misspelled, sorry.
I walked out of the last 3 churches where I was teaching at..purely out of disgust. And I heard the argument " If you don't want to attend a sinful church, leave and reduce the number " Response...I see nowhere in the text where our Lord has any tolerance for false teaching or bad behaviour in His church. But what I do see in His word is the Day of the Lord is fast approaching!
Many years ago I heard a priest say to a former parishioner who told him that they didn't go to church any more because it's full of hypocrites, "Oh, we've always room for one more"!
I literally walked out of the Roman Catholic Church when I was 12. I sat down in the middle of a packed church, and for the first 15+ min. all I heard was how much money they took in at their bingo hall. Thanked everyone for funding the new organ they just installed, patted themselves on the back for donating the old one to the poor church. Continued to tell the entire congregation that they are not contributing enough to the church. And from now on all children should contribute $5 a week, and adults should give $20. This was in the 70's! That was my whole allowance that I had to work for! And not Once did I hear the name Jesus, or give thanks to God. I got up and walked out, even the priest stopped talking for a moment, everyone looking, I held my head high, and left the hypocrisy for good. Yes, I believe Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior! And after the latest decisions coming out of the Vatican, I think I was right. Thanks Lord 🙏 for giving me the wisdom to know the difference.
What a sad lie. The service starts with the entrance hymns and the priest and deacon come in and say the initial prayers. We ask God to forgive us then say the Glory to God prayer then the readings first from the Old Testament then Psalms then reading from Acts then the Gospel. Priest or Deacon has sermon usually based on the readings which have a common thread. Some general things might be mentioned after that but never before and then the rest of the Mass with general prayers , offertory and consecration and communion then final prayers and any closing remarks if needed. That’s how it goes in every RC church .
OFF TOPIC, a bit, but your story reminded me of my brother who died 3 years ago.
He had been a Paramedic and an RN. He lived next door to a Baptist church. The church was a small congregation with a tight budget. The organ they had was quite antique, but it needed tuning that the church could not afford. The large Methodist church in town had a brand-new organ, but they wanted the beautiful antique, which they could afford to repair. They offered the Baptists an even organ - for -organ trade, which the Baptists gratefully accepted.
Unfortunately, both pastors were quite elderly. They asked my brother to assist with the swap, to help with putting the organs on and off the truck.
My brother agreed, but he warned them that he was on call, and if his pager went off, he would have to leave them.
The Baptist minister asked, "Couldn't you tell them you're assisting with an organ transplant?"
@@johannedillworth7413 so you were there at the same church back in the early 70's? Be careful you you call a lier. I know God is my witness.
Years ago, I drove a taxi in Sydney and there were two young priests in the back chatting as if I wasn't there. One was complaining not enough contributions were coming in. The other one laughingly said he had that problem and gave a few hard sermons on Hell. The contributions picked up after that he said. That really happened by the way...
@@T-RexRita That is not how services are done sweetie. Anywhere in any actual Roman Catholic Church and I’ve been to plenty in my lifetime. Frankly I don’t care if you dropped out or not but that is not the way a Sunday Mass goes. Talking about some side bar activity right off the bat just is not done. One would think you’d just be happy in your new life but no!!!! Got to trash your former church.
I pray you are healing and feeling better. God bless you and your outreach for Christ.
Revelation 4:11
“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”
Psalm 90:2
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God
Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature
2 Timothy3:16
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness
Isaiah 48:14
My hand laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I call to them, they stand forth together
I think many church leaders nowadays see it more as a career rather than a calling. Therefore they must entertain to keep themselves relevant rather than preaching God's Word.
Our pastor always tries being funny during the church service, even during holy communion and baptisms. After being very tolerant, we decided to stay at home. I felt guilty for a long time, but I think after hearing this and reading some of the comments, I have peace about it. Then there is the problem with the singing of songs, the same ones over and over again, while we have such a big treasure of wonderful hymns to sing. I'm so sad about it all.
I understand I have been dedicated to churches and tolerated and tolerated un-Biblical behaviors because honestly if you plan to attend a church now days you have to tolerate a lot of un-Biblical behavior. But there comes a time when enough is enough for any real Christian. I don't go to Church anymore as an older adult I got tired of trying and believe me I tried. I study Gods word and proclaim it when he opens doors. I pray, fast and worship him at home.
Why don't you go to a different church? I'm sure you could be a real encouragement to another one!
Hearing Christmas songs like Jingle Bells or Jingle Bell Hop over the loudspeaker in church before a christmas carol service is about to begin disturbs me because none can relate to the birth of Jesus. Christmas Carols of old have to wait their turn till the service has started.
The most blasphemous thing i ever witnessed in church was we had a guest come to play music. It was beautiful, until he played a song that was singing abiut whi has saved us and it said the soldiers and Jesus. Literally equating the two together. I was so heartbroken. This was a good church. No one seemed to notice how blasphemous that was. I almost walked out mid song, Injust desperately wanted tonget out of there and get on my knees and pray. I didnt and i regret it now. I stayed and disobeyed Gid myself by not running out and praying for those inside.
perhaps you should have TOLD the guy HOW that song was EVIL, that wd have been better.
I hope by now that you've left.
No need to subject yourself to blasphemy.
@Lauren-vd4qe that may have been a good choice too, but I literally had a picture come into my head of me walking out of the room, going to the nursery ( which was always empty) and getting on my knees and praying. I know it was the Lord instructing me on what to do and I disobeyed and sat there in the pew. I still look at that moment with shame. Confronting the man was not what the Lord asked me to do.
@noturningbackever493 we did leave. Not just for that but the direction things went after. Honestly I do believe the majority there are God loving true Christians, and maybe others felt the same way I did, but it was that nice polite Baptist kind of church. And here in the midwest people have been brainwashed to see soldiers as those who have saved our country, especially the older generations ( I was in my mid 30s and almost everyone was at least 40 years older then me) it was a patriotic song, but I was disgusted. My husband didn't even see the issue until I mentioned it afterwards. But he's not a strong Christian ( I question whether he is saved or not at all)
@@Sarah-psalm127 show him the verse about the lukewarm christian
I saw a United Church close to my home here in Southern Ontario Canada post a big billboard celebrating gay pride month!
Sad
I would agree with you Matt.
Small rural Baptist church; Sunday morning special a woman and a couple of girls sang Taylor Swift's song Shake it Off. Compete with the shaking. I was appalled.
Wow! That’s ridiculous!!
God will not be mocked. I struggle with churches being ok with mobile phone bleeps going off throughout the service. Disrespectful and how is worship able to take place with this happening ?😠
This is so sad😢......
It makes me appreciate my own church so much. And it makes me wantvto say Thank God or Hallelujah for putting me and my family in the right place.
Amen and Shalom my brother❤🙏
Matt as always thanks for sharing and pointing out how false some Christians has become.
I have a "do not disturb" rule on my phone that turns on automatically during church hours. All modern phones will have that feature.
When I learned that my former church was using songs from Hillsong, Bethel, Elevation, and some other heretical artist, and I learned the issue with those churches, I left. It was a church/school and Pentecostal and I had voiced my concerns in an email to one of the pastors who brushed them off essentially. I am now at a Baptist church, much smaller and doctrinally accurate. They are preaching the message that had gotten me saved about two years ago after listening to one of Ray Comfort’s videos. My parents still attend that church, and my mom isn’t interested in hearing the issues I had. My sister and brother have been attending a similar church that, based on what I have seen, seems more interested in preaching what God can do for you in this life, how to live your best life now, etc. as opposed to a message of repentance and salvation. My dad and I attended Power Morphicon, the official Power Rangers Convention, last week in Pasadena CA, and before it started, we took a tour of the Living Waters ministry nearby and got to meet Ray Comfort. My dad is now curious about the church I am attending and wants to come one day. My brother and sister experienced some worldly things at their church and may not be there much longer. I have been praying and I think God may be doing a work in their lives to get them out of those churches. Please say some prayers for them that they see the truth about their churches and about the people they listen to such as Steven Furtick, Joyce Meyer, Joel Osteen, T.D. Jakes, Lovy Elias, and more.
Unfortunately this does not surprise me.
Please allow me to share my experience... I had just moved to a new area and was looking for a church to attend, just up the road from my new home was a CofE Church, so I headed there for the Sunday service, all was well.
Then they made mention in the end of service announcements that they were holding an all day fund raising event in the church the following Saturday and all were invited to come along, have fun and raise some vital funds.
So naturally I decided to attend this fund raising event, as soon as I set foot in the building I had an immediate sense of foreboding and unease , the reason why soon became very apparent, they had not one, but two, tarot card readers in the church building!!
I left straight away and let my feelings be known to the vicar.
What did the vicar say about it?
@@peterwallis4288 They first said they did not know that there would be tarot card readers at the event and then followed that up with "It's just harmless fun anyway"!!
What is a CoFe church?
@@Keith.W that's very disappointing.
@@beckypetersen2680 Church of England (or Anglican)
I'm a huge lover of Handles Massiah, it's my main source of praise and worship ❤
This has made me very angry😮
I went to a church where the pastor took his Bible, threw it on the ground, and stepped on it.
His point was against "Bibliolatry". The problem is, there is no such thing. Believing the Word of God can never be "Idolatry". It's God's Words, not an idol's words. In fact, John 1 says the Word is Christ Himself.
If anyone preaches against "Bibliolatry", you know you aren't speaking to a Christian. That person has elevated themselves to the level of the very Word of God. They elevate themselves to the level of Christ.
Do we worship the Bible itself? Of course not! But we do believe every word it says. And we do trust it far more than any man.
I think what happened at a church where I attended was related to this sick irreverence for the Word. Maybe you will catch my story on here.
Fortunately, I've never seen or heard anything like that. But I do believe you. God bless you, Sir. May your life be long and unto the Lord.
It's not clear to be if this is a church service or an entertainment event held at a church.
I once visited a church where the main Sunday service was taken by the youth leader. Instead of preaching, he organised a competition to see who could jump in and out of a huge pair of underpants the most times in 60 seconds. I was seemingly the only person in a congregation of 150+ that had a problem with this.
Hi Matt
Hallelua my brother
Oh no! That's so grievous. That really does top anything I've ever heard of or seen. I'm glad I'm not in their shoes when they answer God.
To say this is shocking is an absolute understatement. This is wicked and evil. What's the name of the church?
He wont say because it never happened. Just for youtube clicks
@@77Friction Oh cynical one!
Thank you for sharing this, Matt.
Years ago I visited an American church on July 4 weekend. The service began: beautiful, worship, hands lifted, eyes to the heavens. But after a while, on the overhead screens were pictures of the American flag. Hands still lifted, eyes to the heavens. And the songs turned to “America, the Beautiful,” and “My Country, Tis of Thee.” Hands lifted….
I kept thinking “they’re confused! What’s happening?” Then the picture changed to the Statue of Liberty. And I looked around the sanctuary at all. The people with their hands lifted, singing adoration to a statue of a woman. I stormed out, and my husband followed. I told him if I had stayed a moment longer I would’ve stood up and yelled! They saw nothing wrong with it. To them, patriotic “worship” was all part of their religion.
Well there is nothing wrong with this kind of particular circumstance because for one thing is those songs do still speak to our creator about something. I don't know what you learned surrounding our history but the truth is America was originally founded on Christian principles and that is one thing that genuine freedom for humanity is. The only problem is that it and all patriotic matters have all been hijacked and subverted by activists of the secular world.
@@meleshenko3767Literally No one was worshiping the Statue of Liberty. Get serious.
@@johannedillworth7413 if you just want to argue I’m sure you can find someone. Not here.
@@meleshenko3767, you are right and the people who have a problem with what you’re saying are wrong. This is idolatry plain and simple. A worship service should be dedicated to the worship of God, not a country, an institution or anything else, no matter how wonderful that thing is. God is a jealous god and He will bring judgement down on this and all the other silly nonsense.
Did you know that the Statue of Liberty was really created to honor ISIS the Goddess of Fertility?
It had zero to do with the French Revolution modeled after the American Revolution.
It was gifted to the U.S. because the French Gov't refused to purchase it and wanted it gone from their country.
Revelation in Scripture refers to the "Whore of Babylon" -- guess who that is.
What you witnessed at that service was the church praising the statue of ISIS and the Whore of Babylon enticing the worshipers to lift their hands to her.
Madness 😢
I'm part of a small congregation in the southwest. We are the oldest (1895) church in this area, member of the UMC up until several years ago.
But the UMC was going hard woke and we felt we needed to get out. We thought we could quietly step out, but they sued us and put us out of our building.
Thet sued you? On what grounds?
@@nigelpower1509 They took the property. It was a fight for a couple years, but evidently on paper they owned it. We thought we did. But they prevailed. I don't know all the details.
After our experience, the UMC announced their "graceful exit program" but too late for us LOL.
@@PapaBear-k4k Crikey, I can't imagine such a thing. Not very Christian, isn it? God be with you and yours.
@@nigelpower1509
I haven't been following the UMC's whole situation, but they are tearing themselves apart. It's sad.
But believe me, God is with us.
The rest of the story is interesting too.
A woman bought the property from the 'new owner' and we are now leasing it from her with an option to buy. The twist to the story is that it turns out her great grandfather donated the land for the church originally, but we didn't know that until just recently. She didn't know that either LOL
God's fingerprints are all over this.
@@nigelpower1509 For a few years she was living in the church with her kids and opened the doors to some homeless people. Us being out of there served a purpose.
My husband and I went with our friends at their church to a Christmas program (a huge church) and we’d gone before the last one they had Mary and baby Jesus but had a modern young girl who had a baby out of wedlock and I felt they were comparing her to Mary. It was awful. When we left I told my husband we’d never go back there. He agreed with me. And this has been many years ago. A lot of churches are so horrific. How can people not see what’s happening. 😢😢😢😢
Attended an allegedly Christian church for a time. One Sunday evening service pastor said "Our problem in not understanding our power is failing to separate Jesus from God." It was a small church, so I raised my hand and said, "Isnt Jesus God?" Pastor said, "No, Jesus set aside all his godly nature when he was on the earth." "But pastor Don, Jesus performed miracles, he proved he was God." "But he said that we will do greater things than these." "Even so, pastor, that's only through the power he gives us. And he died for our sins." Pastor Don then said "How can God die?"
Folks, THAT'S blasphemy! That was the last time I ever attended that vicious little cult.
Ewww. Strange
They need prayers. Awful lot of them too by the sounds of it. I'd be extremely upset if I'd witnessed that. Thank you Matt 💞✝️