{"id":935,"date":"2008-05-11T08:21:16","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T13:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/11\/lost-christians-is-the-greatest-crises-in-ameria-what-is-the-response-to-such-a-bazaar-unbiblical-concept.html"},"modified":"2012-01-02T09:37:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T15:37:07","slug":"lost-christians-is-the-greatest-crises-in-ameria-what-is-the-response-to-such-a-bazaar-unbiblical-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/lost-christians-is-the-greatest-crises-in-ameria-what-is-the-response-to-such-a-bazaar-unbiblical-concept.html","title":{"rendered":"Lost Christians is the greatest crises in America? What is the response to such a bazaar concept!"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a totally bazaar concept “lost Christians”?<\/strong> This is an oxymoron!\u00a0 If these “Christians” have lost their faith in the Bible, the church and Christian beliefs then they are not “lost Christians” they are not Christians<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

Thirty-one million people have left these churches because they were never believers they were just cultural Christians. It is happening in the U.S., Canada and Europe because many of the mainline churches in the West do not teach or practice biblical Christianity. All they have is denominational rituals. They baptize people into the church as babies and then they call them Christians. Then when they grow up and leave they say they are “lost Christians. It is nonsense, they were never Christians at all.<\/p>\n

What is happening is that once these social Christians no longer feel social pressures from parents or spouses to stay they leave. Others leave when they lose faith in their warped concept of the Church, the Bible or God. The reason they leave Christianity is because they never had Christian faith in the first place. The reason why they leave your church might be because they never received salvation there.<\/p>\n

There are no “lost Christians<\/strong>” Millions of people are leaving their churches because they never entered the one true spiritual Church in the first place – the body of Christ. If you church leaders really want to do something about it preach the gospel of salvation to your own congregations and preach them the whole counsel of God and start to practice biblical Christianity instead of just giving your congregation some psychology lesson or feel good message during a Sunday ritual service.<\/p>\n

Dave Samford obvious does not even know what a true Christian is. His term seems to be anyone who even attended a Christian church. He then suggests they we bring those that leave back into this strange concept of Christian faith by fixing their hurt feelings and doubts about God. No, these people only will come to Christ when you give them the true Gospel of salvation and for the first time in their lives they actually believe it.<\/p>\n

‘Lost’ Christians Greatest Crisis in American Church, says Author | Christianpost.com<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n

PORTLAND, Ore. – The inability of the church to discuss a topic that has become taboo among many Christians is one of the root causes why millions of Americans are leaving the church and never to return, says one author.<\/p>\n

There are “Christians who have experientially lost their faith” but have no one to turn to since church culture shuns the topic, Dave Samford said Thursday.<\/p>\n

It’s not that these Christians lost their salvation, but that they have lost their faith in the Bible, the church and Christian beliefs,<\/strong> said the author, who was addressing attendants at the annual convention of the Evangelical Press Association in Portland, Ore.<\/p>\n

Over 31 million Americans are part of this exodus from the church, Samford said, citing a Barna Group study.<\/p>\n

“Any business that is losing 31 million customers is going out of business,” he told a room of Christian journalists and editors. “[It] is the greatest crisis among Christians today in the U.S., Canada and some parts of Europe\u2026We must break the silence in our publications.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What a totally bazaar concept “lost Christians”? This is an oxymoron!\u00a0 If these “Christians” have lost their faith in the Bible, the church and Christian beliefs then they are not “lost Christians” they are not Christians! Thirty-one million people have left these churches because they were never believers they were just cultural Christians. It is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,88,45],"tags":[67,352,77,54],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aberrantheretical-teaching","category-discernment","category-the-church","tag-church-growth","tag-discernment","tag-social-gospel","tag-trends"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pawsE-f5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}