So what do you do when you have searched and found every church wanting. I am currently in a Vineyard based church. We have a home group at our home on Wednesday. The pastor and his wife attend and seem to long for the fellowship and sometimes the word i share. He has admitted to changing his preaching and views on judgement , negative parts of scripture that i often share. Now if you know the vineyard they are big on "kingdom" , which is scriptural. However I can tell his core belief is taking over the world by just inviting everyone he meets to his church and planting small churches in various places. This is hard to say, but his preaching and teaching is all over the place, hard to understand and what i see are obvious errors in his interpretation of scripture. Like he obviously believes the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70 fulfills most end time prophecies , that the abomination of desolation was fulfilled when Jesus was crucified , or seems to imply if there is another antichrist we will rise up and fight him. I of course dont believe that. Again kind of love everyone that will come to his church but almost hate the left , who are to blame for the kingdom not spreading , even blaming the Jews for controlling the entertainment industry. So my dilemma is if i branch out to my own bible study , control the teaching more (he also seems to like to debate ) , Am I in rebellion ? I do not want to forsake the assembly. But i do believe the majority of the church is apostate as described in 5 of the churches in Revelations. ??????
Spot on; I couldn't agree more. Here is a response I wrote many years ago addressing the same issue. God bless! https://inductivebible.org/?page_id=483
Thank you Clark, I read your take on the matter, I was greatly edified.
So what do you do when you have searched and found every church wanting. I am currently in a Vineyard based church. We have a home group at our home on Wednesday. The pastor and his wife attend and seem to long for the fellowship and sometimes the word i share. He has admitted to changing his preaching and views on judgement , negative parts of scripture that i often share. Now if you know the vineyard they are big on "kingdom" , which is scriptural. However I can tell his core belief is taking over the world by just inviting everyone he meets to his church and planting small churches in various places. This is hard to say, but his preaching and teaching is all over the place, hard to understand and what i see are obvious errors in his interpretation of scripture. Like he obviously believes the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70 fulfills most end time prophecies , that the abomination of desolation was fulfilled when Jesus was crucified , or seems to imply if there is another antichrist we will rise up and fight him. I of course dont believe that. Again kind of love everyone that will come to his church but almost hate the left , who are to blame for the kingdom not spreading , even blaming the Jews for controlling the entertainment industry. So my dilemma is if i branch out to my own bible study , control the teaching more (he also seems to like to debate ) , Am I in rebellion ? I do not want to forsake the assembly. But i do believe the majority of the church is apostate as described in 5 of the churches in Revelations. ??????
sounds like you need a longer discussion. email me if you want to talk this through: nate@jesuspeoplesf.com