Fearless Faith

In much of modern Christianity, intimacy with God has been replaced by religious experience.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

🚨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.