There's Trouble In Muskogee
Sunday, September 02, 2007
Things are getting out of hand in Oklahoma churches according to one worried resident:
An overwhelming portion of today’s church members dress as immodestly as the world even when they are walking into church. They talk lewdly, some use God’s and Christ’s names in vain, women are cutting their hair off shorter than most men’s hair, men have no leadership in their homes, many members are living in open fornication or adultery with their churches performing no discipline upon them.
Why are these things happening?
The short answer, the churches’ membership roles are being filled with unsaved people. The pastors, in the main, have left off preaching the truth of Christ’s gospel that salvation is the work of God.
Many pastors are not doing their God-commanded duty of preaching Christian sanctification. If people are truly saved, the Holy Spirit will be guiding them by the Bible to being conformed to his will.
Further, many churches are using practically every form of worldly entertainment to draw people into their churches — rock music, dramas, puppet shows, cheerleading, anything to get people in so they can make that magical decision. Where is this condoned in Scripture? We are supposed to be drawing away from the world instead of bringing it into the church.
Churches, pastors, elders, please wake up.
They have rock music in Muskogee?