Evangelical “Sleeping Pills”

Most Evangelical churches teach a deadly brew of false doctrines regarding our salvation. When combined, these deceptions lay a trap for Christians in the end-times, setting their church members up for destruction like sheep to the slaughter:

1. That our “salvation” is complete from the moment we believe the Gospel

2. Once we “believe” we can never be lost

3. The time of great tribulation is not for the “Church”

These deadly doctrines are assembled from taking a few verses out of context (proof-texting), while at the same time ignoring a host of Scriptures that teach the exact opposite:

1. That our salvation is a process which begins when we enter the “narrow gate,” yet requires a lifetime of walking the “difficult path” that leads to “Life.” This indicates continued progress, the “perfecting” of our faith which is not complete until the resurrection.

2. Our salvation is indeed secure as long as we continue to truly “believe” the good-message as taught by Jesus and the Apostles. But our free-will remains; we can choose to remain on “the difficult path that leads to Life” or to abandon it and return to the “broad path that leads to destruction.”

3. There is no pretribulation “rapture;” the “Church” will face the end-time scenario outlined in the Olivet Discourse and Revelation. Many Christians will “grow cold” and abandon the Faith, but only those who “endure to the end” will be saved.

While indoctrinating Christians by continually repeating these lies, they are then lulled to sleep with music that appeals to the flesh and invokes an emotional response rather than a spiritual one. All of the noise drowns out the “still small voice” of the Spirit which convicts us of our failures. As the emotional “feeling” resulting from such music is repeated week after week, it gives a false sense of security as long as that “feeling” can be awakened each Sunday. Thus spiritual “sleep” is reinforced. Christians come to depend on a weekly renewing of the “feeling” rather than constantly evaluating their continued progress based upon the Word of God. All the while their “faith” is not in the true “Good-Message” taught by Jesus and the Apostles, but rather in a false “gospel” which consists of the above distortions of Scripture.

Romans 13:11-13 (LGV) “11 This also, having observed the time, because now is the hour for us to awaken from sleep. For now our deliverance is nearer than when we [first] trusted. 12 The night is fast approaching, and the Day has drawn near, we should accordingly put away the deeds of the darkness and should put on the armor of light. 13 We should walk honorably as in the daytime, not in partying and drunkenness, not in promiscuity and sensuality, not in quarrelling and anger, 14 but put on the Master, Jesus Anointed, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.”

2 Timothy 4:1-5 (LGV) “1 I charge you then, before God, and [before] the Master Jesus Anointed, the one about to judge the living and the dead at His Advent and His Kingdom: 2 Proclaim the Word! Stand upon [it] when convenient and [when] inconvenient. Admonish, rebuke, plead with all patience and instruction. 3 For the appointed time will come when they will not tolerate sound teaching, but according to their own desires, they will accumulate teachers [for] massaging their ears 4 and they will turn away their ears from the truth and be turned aside to fabrications. 5 But you be sober in everything, endure hardship, perform the function of a good-news messenger, fully perform your duty.”

Each of the Evangelical doctrines listed above ought to be reexamined by faithful Christians objectively to see if they might have been deceived. Sadly, most are “asleep” as these doctrines give them a sense of peaceful slumber.