One should keep away from bad purposes if they indeed are truely following the truth in Gods word.
One does not seek witchcraft to give themselves a Money maker and bring People into their church. Not of God.
This is the same thing.
This is an Article from A Pastoor I hvae known and hold up as a leader in upholding Gods standards in this endtime age.
The Sin Driven Church
No Cost Christianity/New Age Easy Believeism Made Acceptable
By Pastor G. Reckart
There was a time when churches were different because their basic doctrine was different. While that still holds somewhat today, there is a new separation between churches. This division is centered around sin. A Church is no longer chosen because of doctrine representing God, his Word, or the Body of Christ found in the Scriptures. There is a new trend now. It is choosing a Church based upon personal life styles and choices. The Church many are looking for is a sin accepting or "SIN DRIVEN CHURCH."
When was the last time the Church had Communion with feet washing?
When was the last time the Pastor preached on forsaking sin and named sins to forsake?
When was the last time the Church members testified they gave up sin to live a holiness life in Christ?
When was the last time sin was driven from the pulpit, from church positions, from the youth, from the young adults, and from the Church?
The Rick Warren model for a Purpose Driven Life allows for the complete apostasy of the New Testament Church. Those who follow his model will end up with a Sin Driven Church where salvation is claimed but lives are not changed. Acts 2:38 as the plan of salvation by grace through faith will be rejected. All forms of holiness will be rejected. Sin will be determined not by the Word of God but by a new standard of personal conviction. A new cry will arise throughout the land: "DO NOT JUDGE ME."
In churches operated by the Warren model members will not be driven by the Holy Spirit but by their own liberality and lust of the flesh. There is to be no condemnation of sinful living and any who judge this life-style are to be stigmatized as legalist, performance driven works heritics, and unacceptable as a part of the Body of Christ.
A new breed of so-called Christian has been birthed. They are called the Sin Driven Church. They have their pet list of sins they want to continue in and will not join any Church that preaches against them.
Here is a typical shopping list by a sin driven Church seeker:
Will my wife have to give up lipstick and makeup?
Will my wife have to give up slacks and shorts?
Will my wife have to give up earrings and jewelry?
Will my wife have to stop going to the beach in her bathing suit?
Will my wife have to stop getting tattoos?
Will my husband have to give up his earrings and tongue stud?
Will he have to give up his long hair and shorts?
Will he have to stop getting tattoos?
Will we have to give up going to the movies and having a TV?
Will we have to stop celebrating Christmas and Easter?
Will my daughter have to give up ballet and cheerleading?
Will my son have to give up Judo, little league, and soccer?
Will the family have to give up going to professional sports events?
Will we have to change the way we live in our home?
Will we have to be holiness or can we dress the way we want?
Will the Pastor tell us how we must live for God or do we live by our own convictions and work out our own salvation?
Will the Pastor preach it is a sin not to give tithes and offerings?
Will the Pastor control the platform and pulpit?
Will the Pastor run the Church or will the laity be in control?
Will the Pastor be under the control of the Church members or will he be the sole authority over the Church.
These questions will be applied to Churches and I will choose the one I feel best agrees with my own life style and choices.
Scripture text to consider that these neo-Christians within the Sin Driven Church movement are not following the Scriptures and they are in fact not saved.
GEN 4:7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
JOH 15:22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.
ROM 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
ROM 6:2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
ROM 6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
ROM 6:13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
ROM 6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
ROM 6:17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
ROM 6:20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
ROM 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
ROM 8:10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
GAL 2:17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.
1TI 5:20 Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.
HEB 3:13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
JAM 1:15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
1JO 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
1JO 5:17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
1JO 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
If sin was not a problem to God, WHY DID JESUS DIE ON THE CROSS?
The Sin Driven Church will be the great falling away to precede the second coming of Jesus. We knew it was coming and now see it everywhere manufactured within the model of Rick Warren's "Purpose Driven Life."
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