Fearless Faith

04/01/2026

Consumer Christianity BEGINS when the Church is imagined primarily as a place to go instead of a people to BECOME.

You can see it in the way people look for a Church. They want to know if they connect with the preaching, if their kids will want to come back, if the drive is manageable, if the people feel familiar, if the whole thing works for their family. None of those questions are automatically wrong. But they are revealing. Once Church is primarily a place to go, it becomes very easy to treat it like something that should meet EXPECTATIONS.

The problem goes deeper than preference. Many Christians have been formed by a Church model that already assumes passivity. The pastor speaks. The people listen. The organization provides. The congregation attends. Once Church is imagined that way, people do not have to become SELFISH to become CONSUMERS. They only have to act consistently with the MODEL they were given.

The New Testament word for Church is Ekklesia. That word did not mean “Church” in the modern sense most people hear it now. It did not mean a building, a location, or a Sunday event. It meant an assembly, a gathered people called together for a PURPOSE.

That is a very different thought than the one many Christians have inherited. We think first of a place, a service, and a program. The New Testament thinks first of a PEOPLE under the rule of Jesus.

The King James Bible did not invent Consumer Christianity. But it helped preserve one of the assumptions that later made Consumer Christianity feel normal. The translators were told to keep the old ecclesiastical words. “Church,” not “assembly.” “Bishop,” not “overseer.”

Those CHOICES trained generations of Christians to hear Church as place, office, and institution before they heard it as a people called together in Christ. elevated. That did not create every later problem. But it helped make a PASSIVE Church easier to imagine and easier to maintain.

Once the Church is imagined primarily as place instead of a people , the roles become clear. The pastor becomes the spiritual professional. The congregation becomes the audience. The sermon becomes the center of discipleship. Attendance becomes the primary sign of faithfulness. And the “Church” becomes something delivered to the people instead of something embodied by THEM. The people, though often sincere, are trained to think the main work of the Church happens on the stage rather than through the body.

The New Testament gives a different picture. In Acts, the Church is not an audience gathered around a religious event. It is a people SHARING life, CARRYING burdens, breaking bread, PRAYING, GIVING, and BEARING witness to Christ TOGETHER. In Ephesians 4, pastors are not called to perform the ministry for the saints but to equip the saints for the work of ministry. That means the Church is HEALTHIEST not when one man is gifted enough to carry it, but when the WHOLE body is formed enough to live as the body of Christ.

The building is not the Bride. The event is not the mission. The Church is the people of Jesus Christ. Not gathered to CONSUME religion, but to be formed into a body and SENT into the world. And until we recover that, we will keep mistaking attendance for discipleship, spectatorship for Worship, and a well-run Sunday event for the Church itself.

The question is not whether we went to Church. The question is whether we still know what the Church is.

04/01/2026

02/12/2026

In much of modern Christianity, intimacy with God has been replaced by religious experience.

We’ve learned how to feel God through music, asthetic environments, emotional highs but we’ve lost the slower, harder work of KNOWING Him.

And experience, by itself, rarely demands obedience. It asks how something made me feel, not whether my life now aligns with God’s revealed will.

Historically, the Church understood intimacy very differently. From the early Church through the Reformers, knowing God meant submitting to Him.

Doctrine was not seen as cold or abstract it was relational. To know who God is was to know how to live before Him. Worship was formative before it was expressive. Obedience was not the enemy of intimacy; it was the EVIDENCE of it.

What we’re seeing today isn’t contextualization in the historic sense. Contextualization has always been about translating unchanging truth into new cultures without losing its weight or demands. What we’ve done instead is reshape God to fit the preferences of the consumer. We’ve removed the sharp edges. We’ve emphasized comfort over REPENTANCE, inspiration over FORMATION, and accessibility over REVERENCE.

The result is a God who is easy to experience but difficult to obey and that God has very little resemblance to the God revealed in Scripture or worshiped throughout Church history.

If we want RENEWAL, it won’t come from better experiences. It will come from recovering a deep, reverent, obedient knowledge of the LIVING God.

02/11/2026

🚨KID ROCK, JELLY ROLL, BAD BUNNY & PRESIDENT TRUMP

I do not know President Trump's heart. I do not know Kid Rock's heart. I do not know Jelly Roll's heart. I do not know Bad Bunny's heart. But I do know this: calling them degenerate, wicked, perverted, or heathens will never win them to Christ. Never.

If you are not weeping over their souls and praying God would save them, then your so-called bold stand for righteousness is shallow and worthless.
When you talk like you are glad people are headed to hell, your credibility drops to zero. People see right through that. Your "Facebook ministry" can be full of truth AND tears. Otherwise, you're simply a jerk. Jerks don't win sinners to Christ, they lead them to hell.

The Bible says God is not willing that any should perish. Jesus wept over Jerusalem. Paul had great heaviness and continual sorrow in his heart for his lost kinsmen. That is the heart we need. Truth spoken in love, with tears, with burden, with genuine care that souls would be rescued from eternal fire.

Hell is real. Redemption is real. And no one is too far gone for the blood of Jesus. Let us pray for these men like our lives depend on it. Because their eternity does.

02/10/2026

Most children don’t walk away from Christianity because they stop believing in Jesus.

They leave because they stop believing the adults who taught them about It.

Some of us as children were taught Christian beliefs.
But what was failed to be shown was the Christian life.

Children are taught that being “a good Christian” means homeschool/Christian schools, dressing properly for church, showing up whenever the doors are open, listening to the right music, and faithfully participating in Sunday school, Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesdays, VBS, and Awanas.

Children are taught what a good Christian does.

But Scripture is more concerned with who a FAITHFUL person is.

The Hebrew word ’emet means living the truth, not merely believing it—and Scripture takes the difference seriously.

Truth in the Bible is not about knowing the right answers.
It’s about allowing those truths to change how you actually live.

And this exposes a serious on-going problem in modern Christianity.

Truth is often mistaken for knowing the right doctrine, yet Scripture makes clear that REAL faith is revealed through obedience lived out in everyday life.

Deuteronomy frames faithfulness as a walk, not just belief. Scripture never separates belief from obedience; it treats obedience as the evidence that belief is real.

James makes this clear: “Faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead” (James 2:17). When parents profess faith but live contrary to it, hypocrisy doesn’t just confuse; it corrodes—ESPECIALLY in the home (Matthew 23:27–28).

Kids grow up hearing what Christians are supposed to believe and do, but RARELY see adults actually living out the faith they talk about. All talk, yet little to no walk.

Kids don’t just hear sermons; they watch parents talk about grace while living angrily. Preach holiness while compromising themselves. And push church attendance without showing an ounce of repentance or love at home.

They see church take up their parents’ time without transforming their lives.

This isn’t about knowing the wrong things; it’s about not living the RIGHT ones—Scripture calls that a loss of ’emet.

Most of us didn't walk away because we disagreed with Christianity.
We walked away because we didn't see it working in the lives of the people closest to us.

The Bible never separates faith from action. Real belief changes how we live.
1. If our faith is mostly words, our children will learn to ignore it.
(Deuteronomy 6:6–7)
2. If we focus on rules instead of hearts, we raise rule-followers, not disciples.
(Matthew 23:27–28)
3. If our faith looks good in public but empty at home, that outward religion will not last.
(Psalm 51:6)

Jesus said the world wouldn’t recognize His followers by what they know, but by how they LOVE one another (John 13:35).

Christianity is not a belief children automatically inherit. It’s something they WATCH being lived.

The most convincing theology your children will ever encounter is not what they hear on Sundays.

It is who you are becoming the rest of the week.

02/09/2026

Support what you want. Just saying.