{"id":45492,"date":"2022-10-01T01:52:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/disturbing-trends-in-the-brotherhood-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T01:52:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:52:24","slug":"disturbing-trends-in-the-brotherhood-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/disturbing-trends-in-the-brotherhood-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Disturbing Trends In The Brotherhood &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, fellow Christians in &#8220;The Fellowship Room&#8221; have been discussing some disturbing &#8220;trends&#8221; presently occurring in the brotherhood.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some of the trends being discussed are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The abandoning of Bible authority (Colossians 3:17), resulting in a &#8220;do your own thing&#8221; type of worship (called &#8220;will worship&#8221; in Colossians 2:23 KJV).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The desire for the Lord&#8217;s church to be like the denominations round about them (cf. 1 Samuel 8:5; 1 Samuel 8:19-20).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A growing ignorance of the holy Scriptures within the church, resulting in a lack of proper spiritual growth (Ephesians 4:14-16). The cure for such being found in Ephesians 4:17-21, i.e., returning to the doctrine of Christ (2 John 1:9-10; cf. Acts 17:11; 2 Timothy 2:15 KJV).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Brother Wayne Jackson, editor of the Christian Courier, makes some other significant observations regarding trends and specific needs of the Lord&#8217;s church, in an article written by Bro. Steve Lloyd in 2002, as he interviewed Bro. Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>Brethren, it seems an increasing number of churches are communicating the message that anything goes. However, we cant call people out of the world if they dont see a difference between the church and the world.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s ask ourselves, &#8220;Why seek religion if religion is just a reflection of the society we are already in?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We need to seriously think about the above disturbing trends within the brotherhood, and then take the <strong>necessary action<\/strong> to bring about a scriptural remedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, fellow Christians in &#8220;The Fellowship Room&#8221; have been discussing some disturbing &#8220;trends&#8221; presently occurring in the brotherhood. Some of the trends being discussed are: The abandoning of Bible authority (Colossians 3:17), resulting in a &#8220;do your own thing&#8221; type of worship (called &#8220;will worship&#8221; in Colossians 2:23 KJV). The desire for the Lord&#8217;s church &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/disturbing-trends-in-the-brotherhood-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Disturbing Trends In The Brotherhood &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}