2024 FAQ) "I am a Pastor; why is my church not growing?" The New Joshua Generation - A) First, it is not your church, but that is a subject for another day. NOTICE: Church members who are stored and spoon-fed hope barely survive Sunday's church service. However, Ground Troops (Disciples) Win Wars! If you want the church to grow, let the church members GO; then the church will GROW! The Christian Church is Dead. God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit have Left the Building. Today, Christian churches are no longer storehouses; they have become storage places filled with decaying fruit. The praise and worship from the decaying fruit (disciples turned into church pew members) smell spoiled/rotten to God, and He has had enough. Therefore, God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit have left the Christian church buildings. The world is perishing and hungering for the True Gospel: "God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life." Yet, Jesus' chosen and appointed disciples, now "social club" Christian church pew members, are stored in church buildings and spoon-fed hope. How can the world receive the Message that Saves and Empowers Us when avaricious and narcissistic pastors continuously deprive disciples of a "full life" by imprisoning them in the church building? Jesus came that we may have an abundant and overflowing life, yet today, the disciples are broken and dying. "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it overflows]." -John 10:10 The church is stealing, killing, and destroying the disciples' life and purpose. The church pastors' focus is not on bearing or producing fruit but on building and maintaining their base (membership): 1) Church pastors switched the church's purpose from developing disciples to maintaining self-centered "social club" members. 2) Church pastors switched the church's purpose from "telling people what they need to hear" to "telling people what their itching ears want to hear" to keep the money hemorrhaging in. 3) Bottom line: The chosen and appointed disciples, now "social club" Christian church pew members, are stored and spoon-fed hope. The once powerful church is LUKEWARM, therefore, POWERLESS (IMPOTENT), thus, USELESS today because decade after decade, the narcissistic, greedy, uncaring pastors, preachers, and televangelists only threw fat meat colored to look like Kobe steaks to the people; therefore, telling the simple-minded, self-centered people "what their itching ears want to hear" to keep them returning hemorrhaging credit cards, checks, and cash. NOTICE: People who have a purpose and believe in their purpose will fulfill their purpose. But when people have no meaning, they will accept anything and do nothing! Therefore, God calls these people useless. "So because you are lukewarm (spiritually useless) and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of My mouth [rejecting you with disgust]." -Revelation 3:16) Pastors, Let My People Go! Jesus said, "I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works because I am going to be with the Father. You can ask for anything in my name, and I will do it, so that the Son can bring glory to the Father. Yes, ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it! If you love me, obey my commandments." -Jn 14:12-15 "Just have faith; no work required." "Thoughts and prayers." "Hope." "Miracles." "Blessings are coming SOON!" "Wait on the Lord." "God is about to do something new in your life SOON." "Sow more money seeds." "The prosperity gospel." "Change hearts and minds." "DIVISION." "Trump (cult) Christian politics." "Hate the world." "Hate Liberals." "What is my purpose?" Seriously, pastors, after 2,000 Years, is this it? Is this how far you have come? You knowingly omitted, "Anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done. You sold the self-centered dying people, "You can ask for anything in my name, and I will do it," just to keep the simple-minded fools returning, sowing seed money in your bank accounts. You have succeeded if you aim to keep the dying people stupid and always in need. The church has an earthly purpose! The church has the authority to carry out its purpose! The church has the inheritance to carry out its purpose! The world is out of order; the church has the power to heal an out-of-order land. Yet after 2,000 years, "What is my purpose" is the people's question; "Sow more money seeds," "Wait on the Lord," "God will do it," "Blessings are coming soon," "the prosperity gospel," "Just have faith; no work required," "hope," "miracles," "Trump (cult) Christian politics," "hate," "DIVISION," "white American Christian Jesus." Is this it? Pastors, do you honestly believe the actual Jesus (the Jew from Nazareth), not your imaginary blue-eyed, American-invented Jesus, came to earth to die on the cross for these manufactured money-making gimmicks? God called you to gather the harvest of lost souls, yet because division, hope, and lies bring in big money from your hypnotized base, you ignore the harvest of souls and tell your base "what their itching ears want to hear" to keep the simpletons returning hemorrhaging money. Woeful, you foolish pastors, you turned your back on God. God will punish you severely and make you pay for your crimes! "You leaders of my people are like shepherds that kill and scatter the sheep. You were supposed to take care of my people but chased them away instead. So now I'll punish you severely and make you pay for your crimes!" -Jeremiah 23:1-2
The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Today, the self-absorbed "social club" dying church is no longer a storehouse (distribution center) but a storage place filled with decaying fruit. The decaying fruit smells spoiled/rotten to God, and He has had enough. Therefore, pastors, LET THE PEOPLE GO! You are spoon-feeding to death Jesus' disciples, whom you transformed into church members. God built disciples to release to the public what they have learned. However, today, the disciples are stored, therefore perishing. Regardless of how much praise and worship incense explodes from the pulpits during Sunday's service, the stench in the church building (storage place) still reeks from the foul odor of the disciples. The world is perishing and hungering for the True Gospel. But how can the world receive the "Good News Gospel" or the Message that Saves and Empowers Us when avaricious and narcissistic pastors continuously deprive disciples of a "full life" by imprisoning them in the church building? WARNING: What God allowed yesterday angers Him today. Old-fashioned church membership is affecting God's kingdom growth. Thus, dying church membership is becoming a thing of the past. Pastors, you have bankrupted God's church. Today, people should walk in "abundance" to exemplify Jesus to the world. Instead, most people walk in, "what little they have will be taken away." "To those who use well what they have been given, even more, will be given, and they will have an abundance. But those who do nothing, even what little they have will be taken away" (Matthew 25:29). Rather than teaching and directing the people how to receive an abundance, pastors tell the self-centered people "what their itching ears want to hear," such as: "God is about to do a new thing in your life SOON" to keep the people returning hemorrhaging credit cards, checks, and cash. Pastors (especially mega-church pastors), preachers, and televangelists know that most people will not adhere to sound doctrine. "The time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear." -2 Timothy 4:3 Pastors, preachers, and televangelists know that Obedience and the Bible are tricky and complicated for people. However, those same people, especially Christians, can tell you word for word what Trump, Biden, Politicians, Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN say. Therefore, because most people, especially Christians, love "bless me" as long as it does not require work, the church's "leaders" created easy "kick the can down the road" manufactured gimmicks to keep the roaming people entertained and the money hemorrhaging in. As a result, the Christian church's "leaders" started several entertainment movements (fat meat colored to look like Kobe Steaks) one after another: segregation, abortion, faith, name it, claim it, purpose, prosperity gospel, hope, cult politics, and on and on. Today, Christians have been through the "healing" movement, Christians have been through the "faith" movement, Christians have been through the "blessed oil" movement, Christians have been through the "blessed handkerchief" movement, Christians have been through the "miracle spring water" movement, Christians have been through the "Speak to the Mountain" movement, Christians have been through the "name it and claim it" campaign, Christians have been through the "get ready, get ready" movement, Christians have been through the "money cometh" movement, Christians have been through the "Bless Me" campaign, Christians have been through the "praise and worship" movement, Christians have been through the "purpose" movement, Christians have been through the "hope" movement, Christians have been through the "ancestry" movement, Today, Christians are still going through the abortion movement; however, if you mention gun control to them, you are evil and want to take away their right to kill another human being. Today, Christians are still going through the "golden idol" (Trump) cult movement; Today, hateful, complacent, vacuous, mad, and racist Christians are still going through the "segregation" and "political" activities, "wishing" to "make America great again," meaning reverse America back to when we were in charge. Today, gambling and gullible Christians are still going through the "prosperity gospel" movement, sowing money seeds (rolling dice) in the salty desert soil, foolishly hoping for the big miracle harvest payout. The only things the above "kick the can down the road" Christian church marketing strategies have accomplished are increasing the building fund and filling the bank accounts of pastors, preachers, televangelists, and politicians pressed down, shaken together, and running over. Decades later, the tired, roaming, confused, broke (poor), and lightheaded Christians are still dizzily circling the dead, dry Wilderness, hoping and ignorantly praying that God will blink and miraculously send the plentiful harvest blessings into the deadly Wilderness! A FULL LIFE (OBEDIENCE) WAS TOO COMPLICATED FOR THE PEOPLE, SO THEY CHOSE TO FOLLOW THIEVES. "The thief only comes to steal, kill and destroy; I have come that you may have life and have it to the full." -John 10:10 WARNING: The thief is not the devil in hell. The thief is the devil's earthly disciples (i.e., narcissistic pastors, preachers, televangelists, politicians, and entertainment media). The devil's disciples have one goal: "KEEP THESE SUCKERS HEMORRHAGING (SOWING SEEDS) CREDIT CARDS, CHECKS, and CASH!" So, how are the devil's disciples carrying out their plan? 1) Tell the ignorant people "what their itching ears want to hear;" therefore, 2) keep the people stupid; thus, 3) keep the people returning, hemorrhaging money. Although Jesus suffered so the people could have a full (whole) life, they chose the devil's disciples to be their golden idols instead. The devil's disciples can have sexual affairs, cheat, steal, or shoot someone on 5th Avenue, and the hypnotic, cataleptic, or trance-like people will still follow them into hell. "Our stupidity ruins us, though we blame the LORD." -Proverbs 19:3 The devil knows why God sent his Son, Jesus, to earth. The devil's purpose is to kill God's kingdom growth! So, pastors, preachers, televangelists, and politicians, because you chose to sell your souls to the devil ("tell the people what their itching ears wanted to hear"), therefore killing the people's purposes and scattering their lives, God calls you a criminal. He will punish you severely and make you pay for your crimes. "Not everyone who calls out to me, 'Lord! Lord!' will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my Father in heaven will enter. On the day of judgment, many will call me their Lord. They will say, "We preached in your name, and in your name, we forced out demons and worked many miracles." But I will tell them, "I will have nothing to do with you! Get out of my sight, you evil people!" -Matthew 7:21-23 FAQ) "Why does God send people to hell if God is good?" The New Joshua Generation - A) God does NOT send any man or woman to hell. God never intended for humans to enter hell. Hell was "prepared for the devil and his angels" (Matthew 25:41). However, if a man or woman REJECTS (denies or refuses to obey) Jesus, they reject God; therefore, the man or woman (including Christians) chooses the devil. Since the man or woman chose the devil, he or she decided to FOLLOW him into the "eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels." NOTICE: God does not send any man or woman to hell. Instead, God gives men and women a choice of whether or not to go to hell. Most of the New Joshua Generation website's text is from God is Bankrupt and Jesus is Finished; Copyright © 2004 (TXu001159456 / 2004-11-24, 446 pages).
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