Facebook as an indicator of Church rot

Have you ever scrolled through a Christian community on facebook, casually reading the posts, and using them as an indicator to assess the health of the Church? It’s a different tension than talking to someone at your local congregation, for on social media they lack conversational inhibitions and simply present tidbits of their theological makeup. It’s like reading someone's spiritual diary, in that you learn a lot about their foundation or lack thereof. 

 

What’s troubling is that many of the posts that garner the most unanimous applause are also the ones that are the most antithetical to Christianity. They present an alternative god to the Lord as revealed in Scripture, and they present a false Gospel. Sure, they may have truth sprinkled in their cocktail, but striking error poisons the drink.

 

Allow me to present one such post. I will not show the poster's name, or the community. What I want you to do is read it with this thought in mind, "Is this a good post reflective of my beliefs?", "Would I thumbs up it?", or "Do I agree with it?”

 

Here it is:

Pro-Choice "logic"

Imagine that you’re walking along the sidewalk and you notice a man piling firewood around the perimeter of a lone house on the street. You pause out of curiosity and observe him more closely. He has a jerry can of petrol and begins to remove the cap.

“Hey, what are you doing”?

The man ignores you and begins pouring the gasoline on the flammables around the house.

More urgently, you call out again, “Hey, what are you doing?”

He turns acknowledging your query.

“I’m burning down my house”. He pulls out the deed and shows it to you. It is his house.

I mention that he could sell it instead. He doesn’t care. I mention he could give it away to someone that needs it, or who would love to have it. He doesn’t care. I don’t know him and its none of my business what he chooses to do with his personal property, but it is curious, so I watch.

Now the man begins to carry 2x4 boards to the front door. He has a hammer and nails and fastens them across the door so it can’t be opened. I notice that the ground-level windows are already boarded up. I look up at the upper-level windows to see if they are boarded as well and I see a woman in the window crying and banging on the window with her fists, trying to break it. She seems to be screaming. The sound is muffled from the closed window, but I think I can hear her.

“Help me, help me, help me!”

At this realization that the house has a woman inside, I start yelling at the man.

Iran Ayatollah declares Islam has been ready for covid19 for 1400 years. - Satire

The `Believe in yourself’ Lie

I am perplexed at an odd mantra that the millennials seem to have latched onto; that the prima facto ingredient to accomplishment and success is pride, or as they like to express it, to “believe in yourself”. Oprah Winfrey opines on this topic with a religious fervour, as do so many other motivational thinkers. The truth is, they are not really motivational thinkers, they are motivational feelers and exploiters. And they teach that narcissism is a means to the end. 

The `Drew Carey Show' on the importance of reading the Bible - Hilarious

A funny excerpt from the `Drew Carey Show' that teaches us the importance of personal Bible reading and how it guards us from heresy and false teachers.

It is important to guard our belief system against heresy and false doctrine. Do you measure what you believe, and are taught, against the Word of God? If not, then a false teacher can poison your mind, and by extension, your soul. Intellectual laziness leads to Spiritual stupidity: the Bible calls this spiritual blindness. Ironically, spiritual blindness is avoided by physically reading the Bible.

Note: To have a PERSONAL relationship with Jesus, you have to PERSONALLY read His Word.