{"id":1793,"date":"2009-02-17T14:21:52","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T19:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/17\/true-christianity-need-a-final-restoration-reformation-before-the-return-of-jesus-christ.html"},"modified":"2017-03-12T19:47:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T00:47:45","slug":"true-christianity-need-a-final-restoration-reformation-before-the-return-of-jesus-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/true-christianity-need-a-final-restoration-reformation-before-the-return-of-jesus-christ.html","title":{"rendered":"True Christianity needs a final Restoration Reformation before the return of Jesus Christ."},"content":{"rendered":"

I also have heard from many Christians who for various reasons tell me they are quitting church or cannot find a church<\/strong>. This article gets into some of the reasons why. There is a whole book written on the subject for those who want more detail.<\/p>\n

Ingrid Schlueter thinks the Church needs another Reformation and that make sense to me. In these last days we need a Restoration Reformation that is based on absolute truths of the Bible rather than the more modern popular subjective doctrines of unstable men.<\/p>\n

I know of no such man like Luther on the horizon today that could lead this final restoration of the true Church. But, who knows who God will raise up for this generation? I assure you the leadership will not come out of the problem churches unless there is repentance. Nevertheless, God can raise up leaders to unite this new Restoration Reformation of churches that returns true Christians back to sound doctrine and instill discipleship and accountability in the Church. God raised up men in the past when the Church got so corrupted that it was led by blinded men and their blind doctrines. So a last days Restoration Reformation of the true Church is more likely than not.<\/p>\n

A new Restoration Reformation might come as a result of persecution of true Bible believers in Christianity. I guess we must assume that there are still enough true Christians for this separation and Reformation to take place. However, if it happens it will not be without great pain but the end result of the Restoration Reformation will be great purification.<\/p>\n

Maybe one day not to far in the future true Christians will just call themselves Bible believing Christians instead of identifying themselves by scores of denominational handles and latest fads and whims.<\/p>\n

The Church needs a “Restoration Reformation”. The Reformation would birth a body of believers that is doing the Great Commission and actually watching and waiting for the Lord’s return. It would carry out real discipleship and hold believers accountable. This new Reformed Church would do the works of the Sprint on earth, in these last days just before the Lord’s return and He takes us away.<\/p>\n

Quitting Church: Why the Faithful Are Fleeing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Quitting Church: Why the Faithful Are Fleeing<\/p>\n

Feb 16 by Ingrid Schlueter<\/p>\n

There is a fascinating book out by Washington Times religion reporter Julia Duin called Quitting Church: Why the Faithful are Fleeing and What to Do About It. In the last five years or so, I have heard from countless Christians who are fed up with their choices when it comes to attending “church.” The choices a friend of mine faces in her area are these: an apostate mainline church with a lesbian pastor, a go-go evangelical circus church featuring everything but a trapeze apparatus in the ceiling, (the pastor has a ring in his nose), a stone dead Reformed church comprised of the 24 original founders in various stages of spiritual dessication, a German Lutheran ethnic club along the lines of the Reformed church, a oneness Pentecostal church that gets so wild the police are occasionally called for noise ordinance violations, an IFB (independent, fundamental baptist) church where the women are required to have their hair below their shoulders and where they market their own church-sewn culottes, and a Roman Catholic outpost named after someone called St. Veronica.<\/p>\n

My friends dilemma is not unique. Even in major metropolitan areas, I have heard the same complaint again and again. “We don’t know what to do. We haven’t changed-the churches have changed. We don’t want our kids growing up thinking these churches are biblically on track, but our other option is to stay home and worship as a family. That gets lonely after a while.”<\/p>\n

Quitting Church is interesting in that many of the complaints I have heard and have actually voiced myself are cited in the book.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I would like to see a book written that addresses the problem of Bible-believing Christians specifically and their difficulty in finding like-minded congregations that are holding fast to the Word of God. There has been a huge sea change that I myself have witnessed in the last 20 years. Churches that two decades ago were preaching the Word, evangelizing and making an impact for Christ in the community are now featuring Elvis impersonators, car shows and the like. These are the churches that bought into the Purpose-Driven mentality that the church must change to be like the culture. This thinking has wrought unbelievable carnage that leaves many Bible-believing Christians standing on the outside with few options for a church left.<\/p>\n

What is really needed is another Reformation. Nearly 500 years after Luther pounded in his 95 Theses at Wittenberg, things are grim. The doctrinal chaos and confusion, the inroads of eastern pagan spirituality, the grossly compromised circus churches, the shortage of biblical churches, the apostasizing of once solid seminaries-all of it points to carnal and wayward Christianity. Only a sovereign move of God can change the way things are. In the meantime, believers are findings spiritual food where they can in the middle of the local church famine, and are finding fellowship with other believers who are also well aware of the spiritual state of things. That is all that can be done. We need to watch and pray, because the times are truly dark.<\/p>\n

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