A pastor argues that Christians waste energy fighting over doctrine like tribulation timing and charismatic gifts, driven by ego and pride. Instead of winning arguments, he says, focus on winning souls through love and evangelism. The hyper-critical argument culture is dying, and God is moving past it.
We have to stop attacking our brothers and sisters simply because we don't see eye to eye on everything. Persecution removes from the church the luxury of pettiness, because once persecution begins to come, we're no longer fighting and bickering over all of these little things. Brother David, are you pre-trib, mid-trib, or post-trib? Answer me now! They have their pitchforks ready. I always tell them, I'm pan-trib. And they go— It's all going to pan out in the end eventually. Just live right. If Jesus comes before the tribulation, thank God we don't have to go through that. But if He comes after, as long as you're living right, you'll be okay too. Brother David, do you believe in once saved, always saved? Well, let's take a look at this. First of all, why do you think that matters if you're not God and you're not the one judging people when they stand before you? That's first of all. Second of all, if somebody who believes in once saved, always saved looks at a Christian who went back into the world, they're going to say, well, that individual was never saved to begin with. If somebody who believes that you can lose your salvation looks at that same person, they're going to say, well, it looks like they lost their salvation. But both of them agree on the fact that that person needs Jesus, so why don't both of them just love that person, pray for that person, preach to that person? If you don't agree on theory, at least you agree in application. We have Christians attacking one another on, well, you believe in tongues, I don't. You believe in healing, I don't. You believe in people being slain in the Spirit, I don't. And there's all of these attacks coming from all of these different places against each other. And there's civil war, if you will, amongst the body of Christ. And we're so focused on the petty that we forget about the promise of the harvest of souls. Let me tell you, believer, stop trying to win arguments and get back to winning souls. Let God sort that out. But we have to realize that these things come from ego, and pride, and the need to be right, and the need to win an argument, and the need to demonstrate to people, look at how much I know about the Bible. And it causes us to create narratives about fellow brothers and sisters in Christ that just aren't true, all the while pretending that we're doing it because we care about truth. It's hypocrisy, it's self-righteousness, and it has no place in the Kingdom of God. And I'll tell you this, those who do not practice godly unity, they will be phased out. That movement of hyper-criticism Church is dying. That's why the aggression, because it's, it's the last breaths of a dying movement, because the Holy Spirit is clearing the way. Get on board with what God is doing or get left out.
