Christians are ALL Teenagers! Churches create WEAK Christians who behave like the spiritual teenagers they really are. What do teenagers want these days, and how do they behave? They want Freedom! They want the freewill to run their own life. They don t want parental guidance. They are rebellious. They are frequently unkempt. They would much rather spend money on tattoos than on healthful food. They want to make their own decisions without parental counsel. They abhor discipline. They are selfish, self-centered and me oriented. They don t want to do anything that is hard. They care little about how their actions affect other people. They want to escape from reality, often accomplished by using drugs. They want to be rich. They want to be famous! They want to live the good life without working for it. They don t know how to work hard, or efficiently. They have no self-discipline. They don t know how to handle money or pay their bills on time. They want to be pampered and catered to. They want to be treated as an adult while they are behaving as a child. They break appointments with no thought of the other person s inconvenience. They don t feel the need to be on time. They think they are entitled regardless of the entitlement. Teenagers and young adults today, in general, are still children. They do not have the social tools to be an adult. Believe it or not, there are now Adulting Schools, both brick and mortar and online. How can this be? America is supposedly a first-world country, yet children have never been taught how to grow up? What do Christians want these days, and how do they behave? They want Freewill.
They don t want Parental guidance, meaning they don t want their heavenly Father making their decisions for them and thus, They are rebellious. They are frequently unkempt when they come into a church where they believe they are in the presence of God. They abhor the discipline of God s Ten Commandments. They are selfish, self-centered and me oriented when it comes to unbelievers, because they have no empathy for the lost as long as THEY are saved! They don t want to do anything that is hard, that is why they believe they are under grace and not under the law. They care little about how their actions affect other people, especially when those other people are unbelievers. They want to be rich, and therefore are gullible to the false prophets of Television preaching Prosperity Religion. They want to be famous, at least in their church family, for doing good works or being heavily involved in the church. They want to live the good life knowing they are saved by repeating a little ditty the Sinner s Prayer. And, Voila! You re Saved! They have no self-discipline. They can join the military and kill people. They don t have any requirement to eat healthfully or take care of their body. They can attend violent movies, gamble, drink, and behave almost identical to the non- Christian. They think they are entitled to God s goodness and those outside the church are not! After all, they had their chance, and they didn t make the right choice. Churches produce Weak Christians and that s exactly what Satan wants! Church Doctrines: The Soul is Immortal: There is no need to take care of your health because Death is not a problem. You immediately go to heaven when you die. In fact, many churches have special, Chapels of Transition for funerals. Sunday Sacredness: God doesn t require anything more of you than an hour in church per week. Hellfire: If you re in the church you don t ever have to worry about going to hell. Once saved always saved: Once you are baptized into a church, you are saved forever. You can now behave any way you want, and you re still saved. Infant Baptism: Baptize your children in infancy, then, no matter what they do later in life, they are still saved. 2
Under Grace and not under the Law: There is no special way we must live our life. We don t have to keep the Ten Commandments because we are under grace and not under the law. Try your Best, and God will make up the rest: We don t have to worry ever about being perfect. Since nobody s perfect we just try our best, and God will make up the rest. Prosperity Religion: If you donate to a televangelist, God will make you rich. Wanting to be rich is a good thing according to the churches. They even teach that Jesus was Rich even though He said He had nowhere to lay His head. The Secret Rapture: Sure, there will be a time of trouble like the world has never seen, according to the Bible, But it won t affect us. We will have been raptured up to heaven before that time, so we will be having a party. (A direct quote from a Christian pastor.) Do Christians, by definition, exhibit sociopathic or psychopathic characteristics? The standard definition of both a psychopath and a sociopath includes, having no empathy for others. Christians have little or no empathy for those who do not make the right choice for God, as they did. So Christians believe that the unbeliever deserves what he gets eternal hellfire. And those who are saved will live a life of bliss in heaven with no thought of those who are being tortured in hell for eternity, even if it is a loved one. The response of most Christians when asked how they feel about those who are lost? a) They had their chance! b) They didn t make the right choice (like I did)! c) They knew the rules! d) God is love, but God is also Just! e) They deserve what they are getting! Christians have not a single drop of empathy for the lost! Millennials are unable to Grow Up in Society 3
During the recent election, colleges, such as Cornell University, provided safe spaces for students to color, use play doh, Teddy bears, therapy dogs, and students hosted a cry in. These are nursery school activities. You can also spend a day at adult preschool (What?!), where you ll do arts and crafts, play games, and reconnect with your favorite childhood buddy: nap time. What has happened to America? Part of the reason that children aren t able to grow up is that they are not being taught the proper skills. Children are being raised by children. Children are having sex, and getting pregnant, at younger and younger ages. So these parents have never grown up themselves. And, depending on the ethnicity, between 40% and 67% of children are being raised in single-parent homes. And the reason this is happening of course, is that we have wandered far from God. There is no morality, no sense of dignity, no sense of self-worth, and the public education system is purposely dumbing down the children. Adulting Schools are teaching millennials basic stuff. Really basic stuff, such as how to follow a recipe, when to use which form of correspondence, how to pay your bills on time, how to fold a fitted sheet, how to pay off school debt, how to hang a picture, how to sew on a button. These are things my generation learned in grade school. But just as teenagers and young adults are unable to grow up in society, Christians are unable to mature in Christ. What the Bible says about Maturity in Christ Christians have fallen so far into apostasy, they need Adulting Schools to teach them how to grow-up how to mature in Christ, as the Bible teaches. God is no respecter of persons. He loves everybody the same. Somehow Christians miss that fact entirely. Brethren, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in understanding, be mature. 1 Cor 14:20 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. But solid food is for the mature, for 4
those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil. Hebrews 5:12-14 There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability. But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 3:16-18 Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. 1 Cor 2:6 And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. Col 1:9,10 Christians don t study the Bible Christians don t study the Bible. Sure, some Christians read the Bible on occasion, or maybe they read what their church tells them to read. But they don t really study the Bible. They don t study the words in the Bible. They don t even have the tools to study the Bible. They prefer to depend on what their pastor tells them to believe. Christians, and others today, prefer to trust the experts. They trust the doctor, they trust the psychiatrist, they trust the pastor, they trust the media, because they are too lazy to learn anything for themselves. They are easily deceived! How to Study the Bible and Find Truth No Christian can claim to be a Bible student unless he or she has the following items: 1. King James Bible 2. Interlinear Bible (that contains the Hebrew, Greek and English) (A good one is by Jay Green) 3. A Concordance, such as Strong s Concordance 5
And it is also helpful to have the Concordant literal translation of the Bible (from Concordant.org) These Bible helps along with a burning desire to know what the Bible actually says, and not the false teachings of the churches, are necessary in order to Mature in Jesus Christ. God expects us to grow up in Christ something few Christians do now days! The Coming Time of Trouble may well be here NOW! It will only be the strong Christians who survive the Time of Trouble without going over to the other side by denouncing Jesus Christ. Satan is working through ALL the organized churches to develop WEAK Christians who will not be able to stand for anything much less the rigors of TRUE Christianity! Instead, they will fall like dominoes! 6