Flip or Flop

I'm not gonna lie.....I do enjoy watching me some HGTV!  I love the multiple shows of Flip or Flop.  Seeing how they make a run down house a beautiful masterpiece is awesome! I also enjoy the summertime foot attire of a flip flop!  I love to go get a pedicure and wear matching flip flops to go with what I have on.  But then, I got to thinking about just those words....flip and flop.  I began looking out our church age, and those two words, sadly, seem to fit perfectly.

We aren't strong mature Christians anymore.  Many have never come off of the milk.  People aren't grounded in the Word and don't even seem to know what the Bible says about right and wrong, for that matter, don't even seem to know what IS right and wrong anymore.  Satan and his imps have increased in power....by us allowing them to....and are dead set against the total destruction of the Church.  So, people are either trying to 'flip' the church into whatever the fad at the time is, or allowing the church just to 'flop'.  We don't want the convicting Word of God preached anymore...we want to be made to feel good and be told that everything is alright, you can do, and live however you want, and everyone goes to Heaven.

We have made Church a production, a business.  We seem to tell God how we are going to 'do church' and if He can squeeze in somewhere, than okay.  We have these 'fad' churches...oh we must have a praise rock band, and all these youth buildings with catchy names and programs.  We have to have the coolest pastor that can put on the best 'show' so the public won't get bored.  And of course, we have to have different church times and styles to fit everyone's needs.  Johnny has to be on the ball field and so does Susie....you know they both are going 'pro' one day.....and we can fish, or get our shopping done if we go to the early service.  And whew, life is so busy and we are just so tired, that we cannot have an evening service any longer! And let's not do a Wednesday night church service any longer either.  Let's just do a 'small group' and go to friends houses.  You can walk in churches now days and it looks just like a club or a bar!  You cannot tell Christians apart from the world any longer!  Christians look the same, dress the same, talk the same, drink the same as sinners!!  2 Corinthians 6:17, 18 still says, "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.'

Now don't start with the hating.....I know that some of the things I have called out aren't necessarily wrong, and can be helpful.  However, we need to stop and see where we are.  If we can see a time when we lived closer, when we WERE closer to God than we are now....then we need to take a hard look at ourselves and see if we are really, genuinely, doing God's will, or are we just pacifying our flesh.  I am so worried that our 'fads', our 'Flip or Flop' churches have given so many a false security that they are going to Heaven.  Matthew 7:13-16   tells us, "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.  Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.  Ye shall know them by their fruits."

I'm telling you, it's time to stop listening to this 'snowflake' mentality, where everything offends and everything has to be politically correct!  It's time to stand for what is right!  It's time to grow and mature in God's Word and do what He wants us to do!  It's time for us to stop trying to go the popular route, and get back to the old paths that our forefathers trod.  It's time to have real church, not just what the world wants so they can have a 'feel good' feeling about themselves!  It's time to tell the lost that they are just that....LOST!  It's time to tell them that Heaven is real and Hell is hot and but for the blood of Jesus we would all split Hell wide open one day!  It's time to grow up and get on the meat and become ADULT Christians!  We don't have long, He's coming back very soon!!