Yet.
I've been studying more lately than I have in my entire life and it's been an immense blessing. But the more I learn and discover about my faith the more I feel myself becoming grieved at the state of the Church today. There is a serious lack of actual theological training among many believers that is continuing to weaken the Church with each passing generation. And the most disturbing part is that many in the Church don't see the problem being under-educated in even the most rudimentary parts of their faith.
When did it become acceptable to claim belief in and tout saving grace without know what it true means to be saved? When did it become acceptable to teach a community of believers that all Christ wants for you is to be healthy, wealthy, and wise? When did it become acceptable to essentially disregard and ignore the realities of Hell, and instead sugarcoat the consequences of ignoring Christ's call?
This grieves my soul.
It honestly leads me to wonder if the current disillusionment with the Church today has to do with a lack of reality, so to speak. I am not going to over-generalize and say this is how all churches are, because I know from personal experience that there are churches that are doctrinally sound and unapologetically Christ-centered. However, there are many, many churches that operate on a system that is focused on a man-centered theology that asks what God can do for us and how can we move God to do our bidding. It's sad, unrealistic, and un-Biblical. Why would the unbeliever inquire after Christ with such faulty foundation? Why would man ever want a God that is under our feet?
I don't have all the answers, but I'm searching after them.
To His Glory,
c.
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