Desire To Live

1Co 2:5 that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

When we talk about people getting converted, we must realize that they are getting saved because of the Word that is being preached. No one is getting saved by your cool clothes or your hip hair. This might seem like an obvious statement, but Christians have diverted very far from this truth. They have traded in the power of God in preaching and teaching into cheap cliches and trivial anecdotes. Now it's not being said that a man cannot wear clothes so as to not look uniquely different from his surrounding, yet at the same time, one must be careful not to be the leader of fashion in their surrounding. We are not called to be kings of cool, but slaves of Christ.

Why is that Jehovah's Witness and Mormonism are increasing their membership at a rapid rate? Well, to begin they actually go out and share the Word that they have been taught. Now if such paltry religions, with horrible theological thought, and distasteful dissemination of literature is gaining members, how come the orthodox church is falling behind? Because they have forgotten the gospel that was entrusted to them. They believe that a man can be converted with cheap surveys and cheap throw-away prayers.

Let's contemplate the grace that we have been given and let's be faithful to our calls as ministers of the Word. Let us not preach a strong word in the morning and then at night act like we have no clue of what it means that our God is sovereign.

"We have known men who believed Calvinistic doctrines, but who preached Calvinism in the morning and Arminianism in the evening, because they were afraid God's gospel would not convert sinners, so they would manufacture one of their own. I hold that a man who does not believe his gospel to be able to save men's souls, does not believe it at all. If God's truth will not save men's souls, man's lies cannot." ~ Charles Spurgeon