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The megachurch seeker movement has turned the visible church into an unrecognizable counterfeit. What we are seeing today is the fallout from this movement, which I outlined in How Dan Southerland’s seeker-strategy shapeshifted the Church. I shared my own story of how as a church communications director for a seeker Continue Reading
If you are wondering how many of today’s “seeker friendly/seeker-sensitive” mega-growth churches came about, this article will help you see how one man was able to influence tens of thousands of churches to adopt a new paradigm shift. Perhaps you will recognize some of his methods in your own church.
From church marketing, to “seeker-friendly” or “seeker-sensitive” strategies, the visible Church still seems to want to make church all about the “unchurched.” Why is that? Why do we think being part of a church is the end-all “whew!” goal of evangelism? What happens to the saints hoping to be sanctified Continue Reading
“I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. 2 Timothy Continue Reading
How did Critical Race Theory, Critical Theory, Marxism, Feminism, and all sorts of other Leftist ideas enter the pulpits of churches and denominations around the world? As I mentioned in Part 2 of this series on Progressive Christianity, this movement is a works-based religion based on doing good in society. Continue Reading
The following is a guest post by Josh Porter, who left his position as a church worship leader when a new senior pastor began pressuring him to make the services more seeker friendly and experiential by incorporating popular contemporary songs that had unbiblical lyrics or came from questionable sources. At Continue Reading
A number of years ago a Stand Up For The Truth radio listener challenged me on a show topic. I can’t remember the exact title now since all of the broadcasts I produced were scrubbed, but it was something along the lines of, Who is Church For? How the seeker Continue Reading
Necromancy is the practice of communing and interacting with the dead, an abomination God strictly prohibits: “There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering,[a] anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one Continue Reading
Jesus is King, and we magnify Him. Berean Research is a resource to help Christians equip and keep themselves and their brothers and sisters from falling into deception. 2 Timothy 4:3-4 warns us of a time when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but will gravitate to a great Continue Reading
Many who once stood firm on the solid foundation of biblical doctrine have gone soft. So soft, in fact, that one can hardly differentiate between the so-called born-again Christ followers and the carnal world. Jesus is not surprised at all, as He warned that this would happen. A a few Continue Reading
