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Originally Posted by Amanah
I hear a lot of "God is the God of second chances" preaching. I could use a little more hell is hot but heaven is not.
Preachers use to preach
- if you are not reading your bible, praying, and talking in tongues every day, you are lost
- you need to pray for a burden and win souls.
- Be at the church 30-60 minutes before service for pre service prayer
- worship God like its a rapture test
- Get right or get left
- If you look like the world and talk like the world, guess what
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Sometimes I wonder if it matters what preachers preach. As you said, preachers used to preach. Yet here we are. Seems that preaching didnt stick? I've watched people who know and lived the truth just up and out of nowhere toss it all behind their back for the shallowest and dumbest of excuses. People raised on a steady diet of scripture and no fluff preaching. People with living examples before them of folks walking with God, through good and bad, success and failures. People who have testimonies of miracles, answered prayer, hard lessons learned, etc.
Gone like up in smoke, like it was all just a dream and they suddenly woke up and realized the REALLY important thing was some temporary flash in the pan. God was in the way of their "felt needs" so guess what they chose to struggle against? God, of all things. Deny self? Take up your cross? Yeah, well, this is a "special circumstance".
I'm learning that some folks (most?) just don't have it in them, and it dont look like God is putting it in them, either.
Maybe I'm just being pessimistic.
Or, maybe it's the End of Days.
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