Lie #1: Everything the church abide and hold on to is written in the Bible
#LiesBelievedInTheChurch #belikethebereans #Lie1 The church ‘leaders’ twist the Word of God to accommodate everything they preach, teach, and proclaim over the pulpit! They may know that what they are teaching is ‘out of context’ or they never bring spiritual...
Lie #2: You can sing any song written by the Christian lyricists
#liesbelievedinthechurch #belikethebereans #lie2 I have always been criticized by the ‘Christians’ for commenting particular songs as non-Biblical as it has no touch of truth from the Bible. And, they actually call me as Demon possessed as the entire Christianity is...
Lie #3: We need motivational talks as well
Churches have turned to be an arena for motivational talks. Snippets of ‘feel-good’ sermons have become viral in this media era. The sermons of the ancient apostles have never made the crowd cheer and to make ‘emotional decisions’ to be a ‘Christian.’ All those...
Lie #4: You must give ‘first’ priority to GOD
Priority- the fact or condition of being regarded or treated as more important. We often hear this word in church sermons! If God is given the “first priority”, (though this phrase is grammatically wrong) the rest will be successful! According to Colossians 3:17, “And...
Lie #5: Holy Spirit means speaking in tongues alone!
The teachings about the Holy Spirit had stirred up a lot of confusion in the church as most of the teachers have no or less knowledge of this topic. Many even teach that the Holy Spirit is power and in turn contradicting the teaching of the Holy Spirit as one among...
Lie #6: The more ‘active’ a person in the church; the more spiritual they are!
The definition of a spiritual person and a backslider is given accordingly by the ‘ways’, ‘works’, and ‘behaviour’ of the people who are under consideration! The one who comes late to the church, wearing a t-shirt, who doesn’t ‘assist’ in any of the ‘limelight’...
Lie #7: Worship means clapping hands rigorously at the end of the song!
Worship has become more robotic over the centuries in the churches. We wait to ‘worship’ when the tempo of the song goes over 140, towards the end of the song. The Holy Bible has no account of any incidents to substantiate that worship is something that happens...
Lie #8: Receive the Word today to live a victorious Christian life for the upcoming week!
Is the church a wholesale center to grab all the ‘spiritual food for a week? Though we need spiritual food to lead a victorious Christian life, don't we need it every day and every moment of our lives? Do we mug up material food for a week together? We can't even...
Lie #9: The worship leader leads the worship!
We don't see ‘Worship Leader’ as a ‘ministry’ in Ephesians 4:11-13 where Paul explains about the fivefold ministries in the church. Worship is NOT a ministry of a particular individual whereas it MUST be the lifestyle of every believer. People with talents are allowed...
Lie #10: All prophecies are God inspired!
Prophecies play a ‘vital’ role in the life of believers. For anything and everything, they need ‘guidance’ from God. The believers started depending on prophecies rather than following true guidance from the LORD through the Word of God. I'm not against prophecies,...
Lie #11: You should place a ‘fleece’ before God for confirming HIs will for your life!
The ideology of placing fleece/signs to know the ‘perfect will’ of God might have been adopted to the Christian life from Gideon (Judges 6:36-40). Just as many ‘believers’ depend on the prophets, there is a huge crowd to wait for the fleece as well. Many times, these...
Lie #12: Satan is blocking your blessings!
Our sermons/exhortations are filled with the name Satan more than we use the name of the Almighty God. Sometimes I have felt as if the Christian Churches became a messenger of Satan as we are giving more emphasis to his schemes and tactics rather than focusing on...
Lie #13: Prayer is the medium to ask anything that is desiring in our hearts to the LORD as He will grant “all the desires of the hearts.”
Prayer has been defined as a medium to tell all our needs to Him instead of prayer being a medium of communicating/conversing with God. We teach the kids even from childhood to pray for their needs alone and not make them to aware of the fact that prayer is a medium...
Lie #14: God helped us to see one more day in the land of the living!
“I would have lost heart unless I had believed That I would see the goodness of the LORD In the land of the living.” Psalm 27:13. This is the verse that we use to prove the phrase that we hear almost all services. This verse is taken out of context. Jews were given...
Lie #15: Teaching about Holiness!
Holiness was one of the major topics being twisted and taught in the church for the past decades. The ‘standards’ of holiness is amended over the centuries to accommodate the cultural influences and also to go in line with the worldliness. Things that were unholy...
Lie #16: Accommodating pagan practices asprayer!
I have seen many churches practicing pagan rituals and worldly ideologies by making it ‘holy’ under the name of ‘prayer’. Most of these traditions came into the church either as an influence of other religions or by force to get acceptance/escape from persecution from...
Lie #17: Do not judge!
Whenever we speak against false doctrines or try to convince people about the wrong teachings of a church, we hear this verse: “Judge not, that you be not judged.” Matthew 7:1. They are the men of God, chosen by GOD, you must not point your finger at an anointed man...