We are in a weird place in America.

You can say whatever you want, entertain people, give people exactly what they think need and tell them exactly what they want to hear.  The church grows, and everybody says wow – look at all the great things that this church is doing.  They’re growing so God must be happy with them – they must be doing God’s will.  The Pastors write books – everyone gets famous, and all the meanwhile congregants are not growing in the Lord, and and others yet are not even getting saved!

Let’s look at scripture:

For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.  2 Timothy 4:3

What does this do for sound Bible teaching churches?  People are used to being entertained, they are used to having their felt needs met.  What happens when they go to a sound church that teaches sound doctrine without the entertainment value?  What happens?  People leave, they don’t stay.  Why would they when the entertainment factor is not there.

What happened  to following God and believing in the Word of God.  You’ll hear – we are following God, we go to church every Sunday.

We even have churches appealing to people’s needs to help people and be radical like Christ, I’ll give you a hint without helping their search engine stats it is the em__g_n_ church.  They act just like a church that should be following Jesus – except they forgot Jesus.  These churches are tricky and they are stealing our youth.  You want to test this – go listen to a Mars Hill Grandville (emergent church) then go listen to Mars Hill Seattle (aka Bible teaching church).  You’ll hear one talk about the Gospel and Jesu and then you’ll hear one talk about how you can better yourself with lot of common sense and a few scriptures tossed in for grins.  Go test it.  It’s remarkable.

So – what are we going to do.  Let’s look at a passage in Matthew 24:24

24For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect—if that were possible. 25See, I have told you ahead of time.

 26“So if anyone tells you, ‘There he is, out in the desert,’ do not go out; or, ‘Here he is, in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. 27For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 28Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.

So there it is – chose a chuch that teaches the word of God, even one that teaches line by line and verse by verse.  Stay there, serve there, tithe there, lead there.  Grow into a mighty women of God.  And do not give into the false prophets of the age.

Church is defined by preaching and teach of the Word of God, and Belief that Jesus is the Son of God and came to earth to die for our sins.  They seek God and follow God, and may be small or large – they are not judged by the number of people!  Go looking for one of these churches.