27/11/2025
HOW WILL THE CHURCH AND CHRISTIAN FAMILIES SURVIVE THE TERRIBLE TIMES WE ARE CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING?
Today, many so-called Christians and church leaders already fall into the following categories predicted by the prophet and apostle Paul! (2 Timothy 3 :1-5):
* Lovers of themselves (New Age teachings encourage this destructive behaviour and personality; parenting is no longer a blessing but a burden to be avoided....)
*Lovers of money (preachers of the prosperity gospel cherish this demonic teaching)
* Boastful, proud, abusive (listen to most of today's so-called prophets...)
*Disobedient to their parents (think of the behaviour of young people today and the total collapse of the moral structure of the family),
* Ungrateful,
* Unholy (sin is no longer a major issue in churches as long as you continue to confess the name of Jesus)
* Without love (without family affection),
* Unforgiving,
* Slanderous,
* Without self-control,
* Brutal,
* Not lovers of the good,
*Treacherous, rash, conceited,
* Lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God
* Having a form of godliness but denying its power!!!
Some survival strategies, especially for church leaders and parents (2 Timothy 3:10-17)
1. Do not associate with people who fall into the categories mentioned above (verse 5).
2. Hold fast to all the Scriptures (they all are inspired by God).
3. Do everything you can to teach, rebuke, correct, and train in righteousness (do not give up).
4. Imitate those who have pleased God in the past through their teaching, lifestyle, purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, persecution, and suffering.
5. Keep in mind that "all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted".
May God help us.