Secular “Church”?; Dangers in Interpreting Circumstances...more

Secular “Church”? How Some Atheists Are Trying to Fill the Void Left Behind by Their Rejection of God The rise of secular “churches” serves as a poignant reminder that everyone worships. Atheism, at the end of the day, is a myth. As creatures, we were made to know and worship our Creator. Refusing to worship the true God doesn’t mean that you don’t worship — it just means that, ultimately, you worship idols. The prophet Jeremiah condemns this misguided and futile effort to replace God: “for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water” (Jeremiah 2:13).

Secular assemblies are nothing more than broken cisterns, hewn by human hands, that hold no water. These poor people are dying of thirst but digging wells in all the wrong places. Their humanistic gatherings betray their need for living water — which can only be found in a Christian church that worships the true Christ, who affirmed and fulfilled the Scriptures, and who was crucified for our sins, raised to life for our justification, and now rules and reigns over all things. Image

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Dangers in Interpreting Circumstances 

I think sometimes we should not look at circumstances as having any spiritual plan behind them. Other times, I do believe that God guides us through circumstances. But I want to propose that sometimes circumstances are guided, but not by God. I believe it is possible that Satan at times guides are circumstances for his own purposes. There was certainly some planning going on behind the circumstances in Job’s life which were permitted by God, but planned by Satan. Satan is a real person, one who has plans, one who hates God and us. I don’t doubt for a second that Satan too has a plan for our lives. But that plan is not for our good, or our success.

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