Just spent 20 minutes listening to a 'sermon'... It was more of a counselling session I would say... I wasted some time reading Phillipians 3 while waiting for the video of that 'sermon' to load... Guess what, the 'pastor' or rather counsellor, didn't even use his bible... That's why I said I wasted my time reading the text...
The whole session was pressing on 'believe', which he didn't mention believe in what... Though he did mention once that believe in God that He has greater dreams for you, so forget your past... I didn't even hear anything about Jesus... And he keeps on mentioning God for no reason...
He even mentioned that God asked him whether he wants his church to be planted in Europe... 2 things struck my mind: 1) How did God talk to you about this??? 2) You are so not glorifying Him and why would He want you to plant more churches that doesn't glorify Him at all, might as well just breed more Dawkins, enlightened people or something else than so called 'Christians' that you are rearing...
I just can't help but wonder how many TRUE Christians are there right now... The fact that I have to use the word 'true' shows you how pathetic the situation is...
The irony here is that 'Christians' are intimidated by the bible and don't even want to touch it be it idleness or whatsoever, and when some places don't use the bible at all, they love it... So much for the Reformation guys... You guys just made Reformation look so stupid right now... And I'm ranting all this on a Reformation Sunday!!!
Shall quote some stuff from Martin Luther:
Some pastors and preachers are lazy and no good. They do not pray; they do not read; they do not search the Scripture ... The call is: watch, study attend to reading. In truth you cannot read too much in Scripture; and what you read you cannot read too carefully, and what you read carefully you cannot understand too well, and what you understand well you cannot teach too well, and what you teach well you cannot live too well ... The devil ... the world ... and our flesh are raging and raving against us. Therefore, dear sirs and brothers, pastors and preachers, pray, read, study, be diligent ... This evil. shameful time is not the season for being lazy, for sleeping and snoring.
Prayer is the echo of the freedom and sufficiency of God in the heart of powerless man. It is the way he conceived of his theology and the way he pursued his studies. And it is the way he died.
At 3:00 a.m. on February 18, 1546, Luther died. His last recorded words were, "Wir sein Bettler. Hoc est verum." "We are beggars. This is true" (see note 72). God is free—utterly free—in his grace. And we are beggars—pray-ers. That is how we live, and that is how we study, so that God gets the glory and we get the grace.
LORD, please have mercy on these lost souls...
I don't think it's fair that you judge and make such accusations about a man based on only 20 minutes...
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