Church has become a time of pleasant words and lovely music, but not preaching the message of the Cross. 

Ezekiel 33:32

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“Indeed you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they do not do them.” Ezekiel 33:32

To the global culture, the churches are just a place to hear a lovely song being sung and lovely music being played. Music and songs in the churches are contemporary to please the emotions of today’s atheistic culture. The words coming from the preacher are nothing more to them than a pleasant voice that knows how to make them feel good. They hear the words of humanism but discard the message of the Cross. They serve the creature instead of serving God the Creator as they pursue their own purpose. They seek emotional satisfaction instead of communion with the Holy Spirit and the name of Christ Jesus means nothing to them. “For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, so that I should heal them.’” Matthew 13:15

We can assess that the Church has been established on the proclamation that Jesus is the Christ and Son of God. The diagnosis is that today’s churches are filled with music and words that are pleasing to those who serve the atheistic entity that gives them what to feel, do, say, and think about what happens in the churches. As followers of Jesus Christ, we plan to lift up the Gospel of Jesus Christ which is that our Lord Jesus gave His life on the Cross to atone for sin, was raised from the dead after three days in the grave, ascended into Heaven, and because He lives, we will live eternally with Him. We implement that plan by believing in our heart that Jesus is alive, and we communicate that He is Lord. We know that plan is successful because the Holy Spirit says to us, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:16

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11