Many people in StMaarten claim the name of Christianity without being Christian at all. The word Christian means to follow in the ways of Jesus Christ. As I look around and see the spiritual shape our churches are in I can't help but feel that this isn't what Christ had in mind. Why are pastors getting lured into letting modernistic gimmicks enter into the church without being concerned about compromise? The answer is simple. It's the numbers game. If their brethren are running 100 in Sunday school, what can they do to increase their attendance? So, how do you get people into church these days? Do you compromise the word of God or do you stay true to the word of God? As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord! Not out of convenience, but out of conviction. It has never been popular to be on the Lord's side. For example, The Israelites have always been viewed upon in a negative sense yet they are God's chosen people. The disciples were blessed to have been with Jesus, yet most of them died a martyr's death. All through church history, it was the small groups that have carried the torch of Christianity, not the large denominations of the Pharisees. God is not impressed with numbers, but God loves for us to obey His word. Thou shall not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shall thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment. The word wrest means to distort or twist. When you fill your church with these mediums, you get Christians without convictions, Christianity without Christ, preachers that won't preach convictions and gain without Godliness. If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, [even] the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strives of words, whereof cometh envy, strife railings, evil surmising, Perverse disputing of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself. 1 Tim 6: 3-5. If you have given into these mediums in your church supposing that gain is Godliness you need to examine yourselves. You have been led astray with compromise. We are living in the latter days when the existence of apostasy isn't a revelation but a reality. Don't you think it strange when the Bible says concerning the age of apostasy in which we live, that you will become, "Rich and increased with goods," and yet you don't preach sound doctrine or about such sins as tobacco use, theater attendance, worldly music and improper dress? Does that not seem strange to you? Maybe it doesn't because you're scared to preach the truth in fear that you will lose your flock! After all, the Bible says they will heap to themselves teachers having itchy ears and you don't want to be replaced for preaching about the sins of the flock do you? That makes you a compromiser and compromising builds church attendance not Christians! When you fail to preach convictions for perfecting holiness you've become a coward because you don't want to run off your tithing church members and you probably don't preach on tithing either. There are many new religions in StMaarten that is building large churches where people can hide and not have to deal with the convicting power of the Holy Spirit. How do I know? I see the way many people live. They don't bear the marks or display the testimony of holiness. They have no power to overcome sin nor do they have desire to try. One of the reasons that people don't flock to the church of certain pastors it is they don't like to deal with their sin. They enjoy their sin. They can attend certain churches and be comfortable in their sin. The reason the devil doesn't mess with certain churches is because some pastors mess with it better than he can. He is vacationing from those churches. This is why StMaarten is in a deep moral decline. How many preachers in StMaarten speak out against adultery, homosexuality, abortion, drugs, and alcohol? How many of them endorse monogamy and tell young people to keep their virginity until they find that person to married. That is why so many marriages fail today. A true Christian will prefer to be hated by man and the world and to be mocked by man, his or her greatest concern is to please God with all his or her heart and all his or her might. When men and woman have that conviction and courage to live that life style, only then they are real Christian. Anything short of that is counterfeit Christianity. I hope every person reading this article take my words serious and past this message on. God love and he want you to make that good decision. Please be wise and turn away from sin and live your life to please our gracious Lord Jesus Christ.
