In a culture full of half-truths, my truth, and no truth, believers need to live lives of clarity, authenticity, and spiritual boldness. Moreover, we need to live in a way that doesn’t obscure the good news and diminish the name of Jesus with tepid, religious, and hypocritical behavior.
spiritual deception
They focus on arguments about Mary, purgatory, Saints, councils, Papal authority, and traditions. That’s not to imply that differing views on these subjects aren’t vitally important because they are. But they all generally point to the spiritual elephant in the room of every Catholic and Protestant; It’s the subject of salvation and how to obtain it.
This article isn’t meant to make sensational predictions but to take Jesus’ repeated warnings seriously, and consider how we would transform the way we live if we knew He was going to return tomorrow.
A person’s average attention span is 8.25 seconds. Jesus warns us about the days ahead getting so bad, that people’s hearts will fail them because of fear of what’s coming. God will get the world’s attention.
With technological advances and AI, the ability to deceive the masses with an image empowered by Satan seems like something that could happen at almost any moment.
Have we been so collectively swayed by the church growth gurus, vision casters, and directional teams that we’ve taken our eyes off the great commission? Looking at conditions in much of modern Christianity, the answer is yes.
The question that needs to be addressed in light of scripture and in view of eternity is: Should Protestants evangelize Roman Catholics?
Satan is using spiritual mass deception to fool the world, even many professing Christians. The cost of spiritual deception is far greater than being conned by counterfeit currency because it has eternal implications.
What I’m aiming for is a holy sense of urgency. Roughly 175,000 people die and go into eternity every day. People’s souls are literally hanging in the balance between heaven and hell. We don’t have a moment to waste.