End Time Church Programs

By RICK WILDER, Pastor

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

200 W. WATER STREET -- HENDERSON, NEVADA 89015 -- www.firstbaptisthenderson.org

These programs i.e.: purpose driven, seeker, etc. are just programs for the "lukewarm church" to be temporarily excited about. The church in the United States in the "end Times" is more excited about buildings, entertainment, and programs than they are of the LORD Jesus Christ!

We are looking for ways to build up the church (in numbers) without being bold and going into the world to preach Christ crucified. We have been intimidated by the world and because we are lukewarm we are afraid of the Biblical pattern of "confrontive evangelism." The "early church" did not do plays and hold concerts to reach the lost! They did not try to bring the unregenerate into the church: they went into the world to convert them to Christ and then the LORD added to the Church (the body of Christ) daily such as should be saved!!!

The hundred and forty four thousand Jewish evangelists in the tribulation period will not be doing skits, plays, concerts, or writing books, but they will through confrontive evangelism have more converts to Christ ( in just seven years) than the modern day church has had in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries !!!! Our LORD said, "For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." (John 3:20-21, KJV)

How could the church have any light if the unregenerate come and enjoy the music and program when our LORD said the wicked "hates the light!" A new testament Church is when those who are in the light gather together with Christ, who is the Light, in our midst! Our programs have humanized the gospel and the work of God. We have totally left God out of the church. The work of God is being done by our might and our power, not by His Spirit!

If there is a verse in the Bible that you cannot preach from your pulpit because you might offend your congregation, you do not have a church, you have a social club! If you are not able to preach the LORD Jesus Christ doctrinally, that is His Deity, LORDSHIP, sacrificial death, resurrection and that He is the only way to Heaven, then you are not a God-called minister.

Paul said, "But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace, To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:" (Galatians 1:15-16, KJV) If God ever called you to the ministry, He revealed His Son in you and you are to preach His Son.

If you cannot preach against fornication because you have so many people in your church that are living together and don’t want to offend them, you are just a pastor over a den of iniquity! If you cannot preach the "wrath of God" from the scriptures because you do not want to offend your people, you fear man more than you fear God.

If in order to institute a new program in the church you have to do it secretly and not let your strong Christians know what you are doing, you are doing the work of God in the darkness not in the light! "But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light." (Ephesians 5:13, KJV)