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Post by morningstar on May 12, 2020 5:16:23 GMT
Many Pastors Fail to Provide Lasting Hope :: By Jonathan Brentner3 Reasons Why Many Pastors Fail to Provide Lasting Hopcomfort the faithful. Many of them, however, failed to offer any real encouragement to me because they ignored or missed the prophetic context of the day in which we live. I heard one pastor assure his online audience that life would someday return to normal. He later revealed that he did not believe in a literal tribulation or millennium, just a resurrection of believers in the distant future. His attempt at comforting my troubled soul disappeared in an instant. His message did not help at all the next morning when I awoke to more troubling news. Another pastor sought to encourage his church with a message on 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, but he did not mention the rapture. He read verse 17, but immediately contradicted its words by stating that all believers would eventually die. His attempt at encouragement fell flat, to say the least. Besides the normal prophecy speakers that I listen to, I have only heard one pastor exclaim that our hope consisted solely in Jesus’ imminent return for us. I almost began cheering when I heard that. By failing to mention the rapture and the tribulation that looms in our future, many pastors today repeat the error of the false prophets in Jeremiah’s day, “They have healed the wound of my people lightly, / saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ / when there is no peace” (Jer. 6:14). Because these prophets rejected God’s warning of the threat posed by Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians, they offered superficial help and a vain hope of peace. Continue Reading......
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Post by rieom on May 23, 2020 15:51:46 GMT
Many pastors have not (before Covid-19) and definitely still not preaching the imminent arrival of our Lord and Savior so they cannot offer hope to other Christians. With all this going on, I had hopes that pastor's would start preaching the end times to their people, but nope it does not seem they have done so.
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