The gospel is a simple life-saving message. Yet the organized Christian church itself is forcing the secular world’s media no other choice but to point out believers as a bunch of defected, delusional, miss-guided nutcases. It does not take much effort to understand that mentality when you look and study many churches behavior and beliefs today. 

The denominational Christian church is still so divided it is no wonder the secular media has a field day with it and only turns to worldly experts for advice. No one really seems to want or care to hear from Christians today about anybody or anything! 

One of the main reasons people could care less what Christians think about the world is that a large majority of today’s futuristic dispensational thinking church members live with their heads stuck in the clouds. They are waiting for Jesus Christ to come a second time in "this generation" to solve all of life’s problems and show the world just how tough their God really is. 

Many of this generation's futurist dispensational thinking churches preach and teach their special denomination will not be here for the return of Christ because they believe before He comes they will be taken (raptured) out of the world before the real trouble begins.

Is the Great Tribulation in the future or did it already happen?  

Some futurists figure this will happen before, during, and/or after a “great tribulation” period. Therefore, these futuristic believers do not care about what is happening in the world right now. As far as they are concerned the world is lost and there is no need to “polish the brass on a sinking ship.”

To make matters even worse; many futuristic dispensational thinking Christians today feel they do not have to go through any tribulation at all yet alone the “great tribulation” in order to be a part of God’s kingdom. However, the Apostle Paul teaches all Christians must go through much tribulation to enter the Kingdom of God. (Acts 14:22)

The Apostle Paul certainly went through his fair share of tribulations (2 Corinthians 11:23-33). He did not pray to be raptured or taken out of the world. He gloried in his infirmities for Jesus (2 Corinthians 11:30). Is this what the churches teach today? Hardly! 

Should we watch football,  feed the hungry, or play golf?

Many Christians cannot wait to get out of Sunday morning church services so they can get to the big football game of the week at the nearby stadium or play a round of golf. However, there is more to Christian living than just enjoying its' fruit.  We are commanded to be doers of the word too by reaching out to the poor, sick, hungry, widows, orphans, prisoners, homeless, etc.  

Who is suffering or going through tribulation for Jesus today? Too many Christians today think that this generation…(the one we are living in right now) is the one Jesus will return in, not even studying for themselves exactly what Jesus really taught. They want to change and twist Jesus Christ’s words around to fit their own beliefs when Jesus clearly taught He was returning in the generation He and all the first century believers were living in. (Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21) 

The correct teaching is Jesus Christ already came back spiritually in the clouds in the generation ending in 70 AD, when the entire Old Testament religious system was destroyed and His everlasting spiritual Kingdom and overcoming power came in its fullness. 

No one can live in the present, the now… if one's thoughts and behaviors remain in the past or are off somewhere in the future. There is no victory living in the past or placing false hope in the future. All we really have is today. The present. The now! 

Jesus Christ came to be a now God now. He is the “now” God of all yesterdays, todays, and tomorrows! Yesterday God was the “now” God then. Today He is the “now” God now. And tomorrow He will be the “now” God then. 

The Bible clearly teaches that salvation is of the Jews (John 4:22). It all started with them. Believers need to make sure of when and where Christianity began. This is important because it affects how we are to live today… now! Christianity did not start as any one denomination. Therefore, it is not based on who is in the right denomination.

The infamous Rapture photo -Literal? Spiritual? Then? Now? Future? Never? Is the word even in the bible?

God is not going to take one denomination of people out of the world (raptured) just to leave the rest of the other denominations to fend for themselves. No, all Christians are stuck with each other and the rest of the world, whether we like it or not. Therefore, we all have to contend with and live in the world now, helping to bring the life-changing gospel to those people God brings across our paths. He does have a plan and purpose for everyone.  The message is "love God first and our neighbors as ourselves." Everything else falls in place after heeding God's word.

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