Our primary mission field today is within the church. The latest survey reveals that 86% of Americans say they believe in Jesus. Yet, a much smaller percentage of people say they are born-again Christians. How can so many people be deceived or deluded? Many of them have been told by misguided pastors or evangelists that repeating a prayer, signing a card, being baptized, joining a church or coming forward in an alter call has made them a Christian. Others have been asked to “accept” a Jesus they don’t even know. It is no wonder the Apostle Paul exhorted his readers to “examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith” (2 Cor. 13:5). We are to test ourselves and encourage others to do the same. The test: have we believed the true Jesus as he is revealed in the Scriptures or a “Jesus” who has been created by the imagination of men?
– Mike Gendron
Christ Alone Wyoming 
“Believing in Jesus” means very little today. As the link on the last sentence of this quote reveals, many who claim to “believe in Jesus” are actually believing in “another jesus” who is not the Jesus of the Bible. The demons actually have a greater belief in the true Jesus than most so-called Christians today. At least the demons TREMBLE in their belief in the Triune God (James 2:19). The demons believe Jesus to be the Holy One of God (Mark 1:24). And if they, in their belief, are cast out into outer darkness, what will become of mere men who do not have such belief?
“For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?” (1 Pet.4:17).
The church truly is the greatest mission field. It is where the message of Salvation to the unsaved world is supposed to be coming from. But if that message is not the true Gospel, if the “jesus” they are preaching is not the true Jesus of the Bible, then they are offering a false hope in a “jesus” who has no power to save. Tragically, in many churches across the land today, Jesus has been replaced by an impostor of the same name.
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In a message from Voddie Baucham – defending the resurrection from 1 Cor 15 – he impressed my wife and me with his repeated insistence that saving faith is from and in the biblical Jesus. He did this and that, in accordance with the Scriptures. If you ain’t got the biblical Jesus, you ain’t His.
Too many people in churches have been led astray by a man-centered preaching style that invites them to invent their own jesus – who will lead them to hell.
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