The Great Deception of American Christianity

But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ. (2 Cor. 11:3) So, what has happened to our modern-day “Christianity” is that the serpent (Satan) has led the minds of our modern church leaders and members astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ by creating all of...

This interview was about my book "The Great Deception of American Christianity Without Christ"

Remember that the modern American Christian church is full of sin and worldliness . Today's church uses grace as a license for sin and teaches the easy escapism doctrine of the rapture . It also teaches unconditional eternal security and the false doctrine of salvation by “ sinner's prayer ” rather than repentance for forgiveness of sin. It's no wonder the church is full of sin . The n...

Have you ever noticed that the sign in front of the “church” building reads something like this: “ Worship Service ” 10:00 a.m. on Sunday morning, 6:00 p.m. on Sunday evening, and 7:30 on Wednesday evening. Of course, some meet on Saturday or possibly other days of the week, but the message is still about the same. The subtle suggestion is that worship is something that has...

It seems that here in the “Bible belt” of the south, that most every­one claims to be a “ Christian .” There are approximately 43 million Baptists worldwide as well as 1.2 billion Catholics and 66 million Lutherans. And a large percentage of those numbers are here in America, especially here in the south. That is only considering three of the major denomina­tions. I...

So, there is nothing new . Even thousands of years ago in Jeremiah's day, there were preachers doing the same thing as we have today — telling the people of God that they will have peace and that no calamity could come upon them, even though they walked in the stubbornness of their own hearts. Obviously, these preachers had not stood in the council of the Lord that they should see and hear H...

Last Week I covered Part 2 of the myth of unconditional eternal security. I pointed out that a believer does have eternal security in his salvation, but that his security is conditional. As long as the believer meets those conditions, he is secure in his salvation. Last week, I also discussed several more of the biblical exceptions to the doctrine of once saved, always saved. Today I am going to c...

A common doctrine concerning salvation today is called “ once saved, always saved .” The belief is that once someone has been saved, nothing can be done, either by an outside force or by the person himself, to cause him to lose his salvation. Some Scriptures, taken alone, seem to support this belief, while many other Scriptures seem to completely contradict this belief. So, it seems to...

Let me start out by saying that there is security for a believer in his salvation. But that security is conditional , not unconditional as is mostly taught today. Often in the Scriptures a promise is preceded or followed by an “ if ”, or a “ but ”, or the condition to receive the promise is discovered by further study. A statement in the Scriptures that is taken by itself,...

For by grace you have been saved through faith ; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works , so that no one may boast. (Ephesians 2:8–9) There are two kinds of works in the Bible. 1. Works of the law (religious works, good deeds, missions, church programs, rituals, ceremonies, rules, etc.) that will not save you. 2. Works of obedience (obeying God and His Wo...

Last week I shared about the original true eternal gospel that has been around since the beginning and contrasted that to the modern gospel of today. Todays message is going to be part two of “what ever happened to the Gospel”? For your information, there are many different gospels around today, but there is really only one true gospel. I hope that what I am going to share with you tod...

There is a tremendous difference between today's modern gospel and the gospel of the bible. The original gospel has been around since the beginning of the creation. It is an eternal gospel that was established before the foundations of the world and has never been changed by the Lord or His Word but has been greatly perverted by modern teachers. The true gospel has been watered down to satisfy men...

Last week I spoke again about the myth of the paid pastor, and it was the second part of a three-part series. If you missed it, you can go to the Wilkins Radio Network website and click on programs and scroll down to Christian Myths and select “The Myth of the Paid Pastor Part 1 and part 2 and listen to it there. Also, there are other broadcasts there you may want to listen to as well includ...

Paul was a preacher and a tent maker. Paul did not consider preaching to be a vocation. No one in the Bible had a vocation of preaching. Paul's vocation was making tents . He had freely received the gospel from the Lord, and for free , Paul preached it. Even though Paul had a right to eat food as a minister of the gospel, he did not exercise that right . That right was never about taking money or...

Today I am going to discuss the subject of paying pastors from a biblical point of view vs the traditional practice. This will be the first of a three-part message on this subject since there is so much that needs to be said to draw a complete picture. Last week I shared about the myth of the tithe and how the tithe has never had anything to do with money or the church. Today I want to question th...

From the multitude of sermons on “ tithing ” you would get the impression that God had filled the Bible with hundreds of verses on paying the tithe to the church. But the fact is that there are fewer than twenty verses in the whole Bible that talk about the tithe and almost all of them are in the Old Testament and all of them are associated with the Old Testament Jewish law . It seems,...

For several weeks I have been sharing about the state of the American church and the various “easy believism” teachings being taught today. And how these easy believism teachings have given the typical church members a false sense of security believing that they will have unconditional eternal security concerning their salvation even though the American church is morally bankrupt and l...

Many teachers and preachers today are saying that Jesus did everything for us on His cross and there is nothing else we have to do to be saved except just believe in and accept Jesus. This statement suggests that if you do believe in Jesus and accept Him that you will be saved unconditionally and have eternal life no matter what you do after that and that nothing else is required for your salvatio...

There are various teachings on the “rapture” today, but the most popular one says that “Christians” will be taken away first and those who remain will go through great tribulations and troubles here on earth. Since the term “rapture” does not appear in Scripture and since the doctrine of the modern “rapture” has only been around for a couple hundred...

Most Christians today have no idea how to identify a false teacher or a false doctrine. It probably is because the churches in America are full of false teachings today because they are full of false teachers. This is a result of Satan influencing the church to adapt the ways of the world devising false teachings that make sin acceptable in the church and perverting grace into a license to sin. As...

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. Many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned; and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgm...

The grace of God has been turned into a license to sin by the modern Amercian Christian Church. The pastors love to tickle ears for their own personal gain of power, approval of man and the unjust gain of money. This false grace has mislead millions and caused said many other millions to go to hell. If you are practicing any known sin willfully, then you are not being saved by grace.

There are so many churches, so many denominations, so many doctrines, so many traditions and teachings of men. All of these divisions have mislead countless members to think they are saved by their participation in religious practices, when none of these have anything to do with salvation. In this podcast I challange everyone to check to see which gospel did you receive and which Jesus did you get...

They tell you to just pray the sinner's prayer and you will be saved and go to heaven. Where in the Bible did anything like that ever happen or was anyone ever told to do such a thing. There are many times that men were told to seek God and told to turn from their sins and idols. They were told to bear fruit and endure to the end. They were warned and warned over and over again that sin would caus...

As I have said before the Amercian Church is full of sin. This leads to a conclusion that the church must be full of lost people who think they are saved. Lost people practice sin, that is their nature. The bible says that no one born again practices sin, so it is reasonable to conclude that if anyone is practicing sin, he must not be born again. In this podcast I go into three major reasons why t...