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A message to Believers….
If you can’t even defend your faith, why do you even have it? If you can’t even define your faith, why is it in your mouth to begin with? That would be like calling yourself a pilot and not knowing how to fly, or wearing a police badge without ever having taken an oath. And yet this is the state of the modern Church: mouths open, Bibles closed, hands raised high, minds asleep. We have generations of people who claim to know God but couldn’t articulate the Gospel if their lives depended on it—which, ironically, they do. The sad truth is that Christianity in its mainstream form has become a performance-driven echo chamber where the congregation is encouraged to be spiritually passive, emotionally reactive, and biblically illiterate. It has become a stage show built on noise and nostalgia, while the God who wrote the Word is barely referenced at all.
Let’s begin with the most glaring problem of them all: spoon-fed faith. The Church has trained its people to sit still, shout “amen,” and wait for the next dose of feel-good motivation. People come to church not as students of the Word but as consumers of hype. They bring their Bibles like accessories, not weapons, and hold out their empty hearts like open mouths, saying, “Put the spoon in.” This is the death of discernment. Hebrews 5:12-14 (NASB) confronts this head-on: “For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the actual words of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is unacquainted with the word of righteousness, for he is an infant. But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to distinguish between good and evil.” That’s not just a call-out—it’s a diagnosis. The Church is full of infants with gray hair, clapping for sermons they don’t understand, and clinging to phrases that were never biblical in the first place.
This naturally leads us to spiritual ignorance—what is rightly called being spiritually dumb. Not in a demeaning way, but in a factual, observable way. Willful biblical illiteracy is rampant. People will quote half a verse on social media, slap a filter over it, and think they’ve done the work of the evangelist. They’ll argue over doctrine they’ve never read, recite slogans instead of scripture, and confidently speak on things they’ve never studied. Hosea 4:6 (NASB) says, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Since you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being My priest. Since you have forgotten the Law of your God, I also will forget your children.” Rejecting knowledge is not passive. It is active rebellion. When the Bible becomes optional, deception becomes inevitable.
This creates space for the most dangerous category of all: the counterfeit Christian, a.k.a. the Hellbound. This is not just about people who mess up—we all fall short. This is about people who never had Christ to begin with, but think they do because they attend church, wear a cross, or cried during a sermon once. Matthew 7:21-23 (NASB) makes it terrifyingly clear: “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and cast out demons in Your name, and perform many miracles in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; leave Me, you who practice lawlessness.’” That verse isn’t about atheists. It’s about churchgoers who were never actually born again. They had religion, not relationship. Performance, not possession. These are people who profess Christ but do not possess Him, and therefore cannot represent Him. That’s not a minor issue. That’s a fatal one.
And it all ties back to one root sin: woeful, willful, negligent ignorance. We’re not talking about the unreached here. We’re talking about people with ten Bibles on their shelf and zero scripture in their soul. People who hear sermon after sermon but never crack the Word open for themselves. Luke 12:47-48 (NASB) drives this point home: “And that slave who knew his master’s will and did not get ready or act in accordance with his will, will receive many blows, but the one who did not know it, and committed acts deserving of a beating, will receive only a few.” In God’s economy, willful ignorance is punishable. You had access. You had the time. You had the Word. You just didn’t care.
This explains why so many professing Christians lose every battle they face. They are spiritually defenseless. Ephesians 6:10-17 (NASB) outlines the armor of God, but most churchgoers can’t even name the pieces, let alone wear them. “Take up the full armor of God,” Paul says, “so that you will be able to resist on the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm.” But how can they take up what they’ve never been taught? How can they wield a sword they’ve never sharpened? Instead, they go into battle holding coffee cups and positive affirmations, wondering why they keep getting wrecked by the enemy.
That brings us to the hollow nature of modern Christian expression. We live in a meme-driven faith culture. People post pictures of lions and call themselves bold, but can’t stand firm when temptation calls. They share quotes about “trusting God in the storm,” but haven’t opened their Bible since Easter. Proverbs 3:5-6 (NASB) says, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.” But trusting in the Lord requires knowing the Lord. Not quoting someone else’s walk, not reposting someone else’s revelation. Faith is not a vibe. It’s a covenant.
The boldness without depth continues in those who speak with audacity but possess zero capacity. They know how to sound confident. They know how to move a crowd. But when it comes to actual spiritual weight—intercessory prayer, doctrinal clarity, discernment in the Word—they are empty. Proverbs 18:2 (NASB) says, “A fool does not delight in understanding, but in revealing his own mind.” That’s the modern preacher’s dilemma. They don’t seek to understand—they seek to impress. And the congregation eats it up because they’ve never known better.
They show up with the look. The dress code. The proper attire. The appearance of godliness. But when God checks roll, their faith is a no-call, no-show. 2 Timothy 3:5 (NASB) says, “Holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; avoid such people as these.” Outward forms mean nothing if the inward fire is missing. You can’t fake oil. You can’t fake fruit.
And at the end of the day, let’s be blunt: you look stupid in front of a God you don’t even know. Malachi 1:6-8 (NASB) captures God’s righteous indignation: “If I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My respect?” says the Lord of armies. “You offer defiled food on My altar. But you say, ‘How have we defiled You?’” The arrogance of ignorant worship is an insult to God. It’s not just off-base—it’s offensive.
At the root of all of this is the great imbalance: preaching over teaching. The elephant in the sanctuary. Modern churches have chosen shouting over substance. They’ve traded sound doctrine for soundbites. Jesus was called Rabbi—Teacher—not Motivator. The early church “devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching,” not their personalities. Acts 2:42 (NASB) says it plainly: “They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.” Not hype. Not emotional highs. But teaching. That’s what forms disciples. That’s what produces maturity. But churches don’t want mature believers—they want repeat attendees. So they keep spoon-feeding baby food and calling it revival.
Here’s the hard truth: most of what we call Christianity today would offend Christ Himself. We’ve created a version of faith that is unrecognizable to the one who authored it. We’ve stripped it of its power, silenced its call to holiness, and replaced its urgency with entertainment. And yet we wonder why the world isn’t changed. Why demons aren’t cast out. Why lives aren’t transformed. Why the Church is mocked. It’s because we’ve been busy building platforms instead of altars.
So to every believer reading this: close your mouth, open your Bible, and get to know the God you claim to serve. Because if you can’t define your faith, defend your faith, or live your faith—then it’s not faith. It’s fraud. And God is not mocked
