Current Cults

 I didn't watch the debate. Ed and I went to a pipe organ concert that evening. We went to Northrup Auditorium to hear Katelyn Emerson play the big Skinner organ.

It was a very nice concert, and the first time Northrup had an event in 213 days. Covid. 

Ed and I enjoyed the evening, remarked at the strangeness of only about a dozen people in our balcony, the emptiness and eeriness of a performer playing to a massive hall with only a few in the audience. 

These are strange times. 

The concert hostess began the program with an acknowledgement to the Dakota people, on whose land we were sitting. That set the tone of the concert for us. "Random" was the word that came to mind. 

If you have known me for any time you know that Native Americans have always been close to my heart. I may be the stock of Scandinavia, but I just LOVE the native peoples of North America. I don't know where that love and interest began, but it's been there from my childhood. 

White supremacy is a concept that I cannot understand and I loathe. 

With all this talk of systemic racism I am appalled that such a view even still exists, and I assert that only in Jesus Christ is that racism defeated. 

If you are a racist you must confess that sin before Jesus Christ and ask forgiveness, then, if it is a habitual sin for you, you must bring it before the cross daily. 

On the other hand, if you think everyone is guilty of racism (systemically) you had better be sure of your salvation in Jesus Christ, work it out with fear and trembling, because you are creating a New Gospel that demands a work of perpetual subjection. 

The Gospel of Jesus Christ is this: God saves sinners. Salvation is the gift of God, not of works. 

You cannot do ANYTHING to earn or merit your salvation. It is a gift. 

Your guilt is before God alone, and HE paid the price for it. You are whole in Jesus Christ alone. 

In Christ alone, our hope is found. 

So there is an insidious movement within the entity known as the church which is seeking to add guilt and works to salvation. The Gospel Coalition is one of the organizations associated with this heresy. Be wise. Don't get sucked into the new "evangelical cult" of racist ideologies. 

Racism is sin. Adding to the Gospel of Jesus Christ is heresy, and also wrong. This is the age of apostasy, and we need to be aware of it on every level.

Be wise, be correctable, be aware, be humble, be forgiving. 

Be a Berean, and check everything with Scripture. Don't let the elite set of authors, radio preachers, denominational administrators, christian celebrities sway your faith. You are accountable to God and Him alone, and the ONLY way you can know God is to read His Word. 

Your experiences are yours, and you can share them. You can listen to others and their experiences, but take it to the WORD, and check it out. That is the only way to know truth.

God does not contradict Himself. If one thinks He does, he must go deeper into studies of the Word. There are also great books out there explaining apparent contradictions. Find one and work out your doubts on your own. 

One truth: the Gospel is not of works, lest any man should boast. That is from Scripture. 

Since the Critical Theory age began the church has fallen. Only those that cling to God's Word have the absolute truth. God works in every generation, in a "remnant," which most of the time is quite small. God chose to reveal Himself in the Word, and that was His choice. 

It's God's way, His rules, His paradigm------or yours. 

You have a choice, and it is before you. 

Repent. God's Word commands it. Humble yourself. God's Word commands it. 

Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft. When you seek to define God in your own comfortable framework you are guilty of idolatry----rebellion----and you are not a follower of Jesus Christ. 

Time is short, dear ones. Get right with God. Get the victory in Jesus. 

Don't miss the Rapture of the Bride.