Preface: The above is the title of the original post from March of 2021....The Great Failure Of The American Pulpit. The following is a consolidation of parts of that post....with two prefaces to that post....both from 2022. The American pulpits have failed us....aah but if you want them to finally get angry about something....just tell them that. They cannot preach anymore....and chose not to warn anymore....unless it is about Biden or vaccines or the mid-term elections. They did nothing as a wolf in sheep's clothing came in and scattered and devoured the flock!
There are numerous occasions in the Old Testament where God severely chastised the shepherds of His flock....Ezekiel chapter 34 being one...."Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel....Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves....the weak you have not strengthened....so they were scattered because there was no shepherd....and no one was seeking or searching for them....Behold I am against the shepherds, and I will require My flock at their hands....Indeed I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out." Verses 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 11)
To these shepherds....every single available hour should have been spent in sweat-soaked prayer and attempting to learn something from the Spurgeons and the Ryles and others of the past! Had they done this they would not have missed the false prophet Donald Trump come right into the church. They will be called to account by God for blindly incorporating today's....lackadaisical/encouraging/comforting/make no waves/avoidance of anything that might make sheep leave the church....and deplete the collection plate....fake love/safe space church embalming tactics....this concerning the flock that vitally needs awakening and not comforting.....and warning more than encouraging.
Pastors....God will ask of you why you did not warn the sheep. Your certificate....or your seminary degree....guarantees you nothing....other than it will be required of you to answer what you did with such responsibility. Donald Trump is right now floating a 2024 White House run....to see the response of the evangelical. Are you going to just sit back and let this false prophet continue to raid your congregation....politicizing everything....and bringing division right smack in the middle of the pews....or will you lift up Christ as our only hope....and our only rock....and our only harbor in this coming storm?
