Easy Way To Disqualify A Church
Here is a surefire way to spot an apostate church and disqualify it as a place you should worship at
Introduction
In these last days we know, as Christians, that it’s getting increasingly harder and harder to find a church that isn’t apostate. In the Bible we are told that in the last days there will be many false teachers. We are also told that there will be many people who follow these false teachers because it sounds good to them.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
-2 Timothy 4:3-4
Fortunately, God, in all his love and mercy, gave us these warnings about two thousand years ago so that we could be prepared. All we have to do as Christians is heed the warning. We need to be sure not to succumb to the false doctrine being preached by false teachers even if the many do. We need to be sure that we don’t just go to some place that satisfies our itching ears, as 2 Timothy 4:3 tells us. In short, we need to stand in Christ, not man. Christ is infallible. Man is fallible. Always remember that.
Easy Way To Spot An Apostate Church
Next, I’m going to show you a super easy way to disqualify lots of churches that you should go to. Of course, this isn’t the only sign of an apostate church, but this is picking the low hanging fruit of churches we can disqualify.
What I’m about to write is going to offend a lot of people. That’s OK, because I stand in Christ and not with man. The Bible should be offensive because we are all fallible creatures that do not live up to the glory of God.
One way to cross about 30% of churches out there is to see if they have a woman as a pastor teaching the whole congregation. Women leading a congregation in churches is anti-Biblical. Don’t take my word for it. Lets take God’s Holy Word for it in 1 Timothy 2:
11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
I don’t think it can get any more clear than that. The Apostle Paul, inspired by God, is telling you that women are not to teach in church. And there are reasons for that, which he tells us in the next two verses:
13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
The reasons are:
God formed man first before woman. Man is to take the lead.
In general, women are far easier to deceive than men are.
If you disagree with that, then you disagree with the Bible. It’s that simple. That’s not a position I would take, if I were you.
Parting Thoughts
None of this article is to bash women. That is not the goal. Women are just as valuable as men in the Church body. They just have different roles, according to God. Every single person in the Church of Jesus Christ is important from the pastor to the janitor of the local church. Everyone has their role. I am a man and I have not been called to pastor a church. I don’t fight that. I try to let the Holy Spirit lead me to my role. I have my own role and I accept that. I accept that because God is way smarter than I am and He really does know best.
Listening to God will often times make you change course. I have had to now stop watching a preacher I really enjoyed over the last year and a half because he now has his wife teaching on Sundays after his sermon and he has incorporated his young daughter into giving sermons. Furthermore, he twists the meaning of 1 Timothy 2:12 to fit his own meaning. It breaks my heart that I can no longer support this guy’s church anymore because of his clear rejection of the Bible. All I can do now is pray that God gives him revelation that he’s doing wrong and that he repents.