Crossroad

Crossroad

I found this wonderful website and wanted to share it with you. Here's why it's so important to me.

In the last few months, God has really opened my eyes to the onslaught of worldly views into the church. Little by little, Satan's lies have infiltrated the hearts of some of our Christian leaders and have taken them captive. A captive leader does not teach God's truth but rather Satan's lies. A people who blindly follow a captive leader will also be taken captive by buying into the lies themselves. These churches will lose their lamp stands and become ineffective for God's work, but quite effective for Satan's.

I never dreamed I'd find spiritual warfare within the church itself. I guess I was naive, but I was really shocked when I began to see, through God's grace, the lies being taught in the church. We have been fortunate enough to find a new church home, a biblically sound church, teaching God's truth. Thanks be to God!

Nonetheless, I have been so grieved by what I have seen, I can only imagine how God grieves to see His people so willingly go down the wrong path. I also sense a forthcoming rise in Christian persecution in this country. God's Truth is being attacked and soon God's witnesses, us, will be attacked too.

Last night in our family bible study, we really stressed to our kids how important it is to know what the bible says for yourself because the world will preach a different message. Your defense is knowing God's uncompromising, unchanging Truth for yourself. This has always been a Christians charge but maybe one that needs to be repeated and modeled in our homes.

I found this website while researching a book called The Shack. I first became aware of this book, in our new church. One Sunday they opened the microphones up to the congregation to speak if they felt God had stirred something in their heart to say. One woman came up and spoke about how her Christian friends were encouraging her to read this book but she had a stern warning to everyone that this book was heresy. That was my first hearing of this book.

In the last few weeks, a Christian friend of mine highly recommended it saying, "A must read for any Christian" and our former Pastor included it as a must read in the holiday letter sent out to the congregation. I, now, had two conflicting points of view and I just had to check it out for myself which led me to the website mentioned above.

I believe this book is another way Satan is chipping away at the Christian faith. Captive unbelievers, captive Christian leaders, and captive Christians are all buying into the idea that God is something that can be changed to suit our needs and that we must redefine Christianity and our beliefs to fit who we are today as a people, instead of changing who we are as a people to fit who God wants us to be.

The timing of Focus on the Family's, The Truth Project couldn't be more precisely needed than now. I am so grateful to be going through this small group, DVD study. I am so thankful for our new church family, our new small group family, and the resources I am finding by God-inspired servants, such as this website, to counter the culture we are in today.

May God break the chains of Satan's grip on our heart and restore us fully unto Himself so that we may persevere until the end and be claimed as one of God's own children!