Pentecostal Head Warns Against 'Spineless' Christianity

[Rufus_1611]

Pentecostal Head Warns Against 'Spineless' Christianity

The world is upside down in moral degradation and the church to turn it right side up is an authentic Pentecostal church, according to the head of the Assemblies of God.

"Many churches in America today [are] offering ... new religion that guarantees no hell, requires no holiness," Trask said Wednesday night in his farewell sermon at the Assemblies of God’s 52nd General Council in Indianapolis. "It is a limp, spineless Christianity that does not confront sin for fear of being judgmental. It is an impotent gospel that tells people everything is okay."

"May it never ... invade this church!" the retiring leader urged the Pentecostals.

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"We're not in the business of window-dressing sinners ... of making sinners comfortable," said Trask, reminding the Pentecostals that Jesus was confrontational and yet his followers grew in multitudes. Unless pulpits become a steady voice against evil, the church will be anemic and powerless, he said.

According to the Pentecostal leader, five things are causing the nation's moral collapse. The first Trask listed is situational ethics in which biblical absolutes are rejected even by some churches. Second, Trask warned against cultural seduction in which America is witnessing a blurring of sexual roles, same-sex ”marriage,“ homosexuality and co-habiting outside institutional marriage.

"For these sins, Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed," noted Trask, who was referring to the biblical cities that were destroyed by God for their sins, including sexual deviation.

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"Let me remind us again, this theology [of] making everybody happy and trying to placate the sinner while they're on their way to a lost eternity – God will hold us accountable and responsible," Trask stressed.

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My compliments to this gentleman for speaking some good stuff.

 

[Zenas]

It's hard to believe this post has been up more than 24 hours without a single reply. I say a hearty Amen! to Pastor Trask, or whatever his name is.

 

[Heavenly Pilgrim]

How can one preach against sin if in fact no man can live without sin, and or if in fact it is at its roots the necessitated outcome of being human?

As good as these well intentioned remarks are, we as a church will never be effective against sin until we are willing to define what it is and be willing to face what it is.

When we suggest, yea even demand, that sin is an unavoidable contagion passed on and contracted by mere natural generation, and as such impossible to avoid, the lines of sin will forever be blurred into obscurity. If this good man will take a look at the doctrines of his own denomination, he will find there a major obstacle to the destruction of sin within the church.

 

[Gerhard Ebersoehn]

How can one preach against sin if in fact no man can live without sin, and or if in fact it is at its roots the necessitated outcome of being human?

As good as these well intentioned remarks are, we as a church will never be effective against sin until we are willing to define what it is and be willing to face what it is.

When we suggest, yea even demand, that sin is an unavoidable contagion passed on and contracted by mere natural generation, and as such impossible to avoid, the lines of sin will forever be blurred into obscurity. If this good man will take a look at the doctrines of his own denomination, he will find there a major obstacle to the destruction of sin within the church.

GE:

Do you submit yourself as a specimen of your type of 'human being'? If not, why not? How then it's possible for and applicable to others? I find your post most hypocritical and false.

 

[Heavenly Pilgrim]

GE: Do you submit yourself as a specimen of your type of 'human being'? If not, why not? How then it's possible for and applicable to others? I find your post most hypocritical and false.

HP: Sorry GE. I do not understand what you are asking. Try asking it in another way.

As for being ‘hypocritical and false,’ you need to establish that rather than to just make an accusation, then we can have discussion and or debate.

 

[Gerhard Ebersoehn]

HP: Sorry GE. I do not understand what you are asking. Try asking it in another way.

As for being ‘hypocritical and false,’ you need to establish that rather than to just make an accusation, then we can have discussion and or debate.

GE:

It's the impression your post creates - nothing personal (I hope!).

 

[Heavenly Pilgrim]

GE: It's the impression your post creates - nothing personal (I hope!).

HP: How does this response clarify your former post? How or why was my post "hypocritical and false?"

 

[Dan V.]

My compliments to this gentleman for speaking some good stuff.

Sounds like he wants to do the right thing. I used to be in an AG church, but left went it got unbiblically crazy. God has some good folks there.

Dan V.

 

[Heavenly Pilgrim]

DanV: I used to be in an AG church, but left went it got unbiblically crazy.

HP: Now that is indeed a weighty accusation. Would you mind sharing just what they started believing that justifies you saying they went "unbiblically crazy?"