My wife follows more this kind of thing than I do. However, I think you are overall right, although my wife tells me that some congregations are better than others. How much better is perhaps problematic. As it is, we cannot find one single church in our area of Roanoke, Virginia to which we might want to attend.
My wife follows more this kind of thing than I do. However, I think you are overall right, although my wife tells me that some congregations are better than others. How much better is perhaps problematic. As it is, we cannot find one single church in our area of Roanoke, Virginia to which we might want to attend.
We used to be in the RPCUS until we found our own paster in error having to do with the unconditional love New Testament heresy. Not too long after we dropped out of that congregation the whole RPCUS collapsed and disintegrated. Today, the RPCUS does not exist. Seeing this kind of thing is not exactly uplifting!
I hate to say that Christians in 'churches' are not really Christians, but that is probably more the case than not. People just don't know much about Christian Orthodoxy, Church history and the general education offered both public and private has produced a race of mental dwarfs not capable of mounting a good self-defense. But on a positive note, having some moral compass and some sense of traditional norms is much, much better than taking a wild walk on the Woke Side. I just place my trust in God come what may! Because I am not greater that our Lord and therefore I don't get a special exemptions from suffering.
Around 2006 or so, I read Christianity and Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen; and I was shocked. This is the first serious Christian book I had ever read which made any sense to me. After reading it, I well understood why the churches could not defend themselves against the invading evil coming against them, and also ... infiltrating from within.
I most often think that most 'Christians' are not really Christians, and don't love and glorify God. Instead, they either have themselves planted into their minds some deformed ersatz version of God conjured up by themselves, and/or ... and more likely have had planted into their minds by dumb preachers, graduates of some one of the funky fallen clueless seminaries.
My wife follows more this kind of thing than I do. However, I think you are overall right, although my wife tells me that some congregations are better than others. How much better is perhaps problematic. As it is, we cannot find one single church in our area of Roanoke, Virginia to which we might want to attend.
We used to be in the RPCUS until we found our own paster in error having to do with the unconditional love New Testament heresy. Not too long after we dropped out of that congregation the whole RPCUS collapsed and disintegrated. Today, the RPCUS does not exist. Seeing this kind of thing is not exactly uplifting!
I hate to say that Christians in 'churches' are not really Christians, but that is probably more the case than not. People just don't know much about Christian Orthodoxy, Church history and the general education offered both public and private has produced a race of mental dwarfs not capable of mounting a good self-defense. But on a positive note, having some moral compass and some sense of traditional norms is much, much better than taking a wild walk on the Woke Side. I just place my trust in God come what may! Because I am not greater that our Lord and therefore I don't get a special exemptions from suffering.
Around 2006 or so, I read Christianity and Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen; and I was shocked. This is the first serious Christian book I had ever read which made any sense to me. After reading it, I well understood why the churches could not defend themselves against the invading evil coming against them, and also ... infiltrating from within.
I most often think that most 'Christians' are not really Christians, and don't love and glorify God. Instead, they either have themselves planted into their minds some deformed ersatz version of God conjured up by themselves, and/or ... and more likely have had planted into their minds by dumb preachers, graduates of some one of the funky fallen clueless seminaries.
To say it understated, it's a horrible mess.