Leaders Of The Church

A major problem we are facing in todays "Christian" society, is our want or need to follow someone, a leader who can tell us what to think or how we should read and understand the Bible. There are even many groups who actually tell their congregation that only the ministers can understand all the Bible has to say, basically saying, "We will tell you what you need to know". And yet so many people follow along, don't study the Bible, just the parts they are told to. Many times these leaders will even change what they believe from time to time, and few challenge this. The Pope is a good example of this. He has the power to change the Word of God as society changes. When Catholicism started in the 5th century, women were not allowed to be priests, now there is a sect that allows it, homosexuals were an abomination, now they are accepted, only Catholics were true Christians, until Pope John Paul announced ALL Christians were Catholic in 1982, and the new Pope just announced that you don't even have to believe to go to Heaven, you just have to be a good person. In other words, don't listen to the Bible, I'LL tell you what to do to be saved. It isn't only Catholics that do this, far from it in fact. Recently a mega-church in Texas lead by a very charismatic preacher, announced there is no Hell. That blatantly goes against scripture, yet his congregation grew. The very famous Joel Olsteen has preached for years about the sin of homosexuality, until recently on a Sixty-Minutes interview, he finally buckled under the pressure and changed his tune. All of these examples are just a small portion of these so called leaders changing the Word of God. How can they defend their actions? Has God changed His mind, or did He not get it right the first time? Malachai 3:6 says "For I Jehovah change not" and 1 John 2:5 says "But whoso, keepeth His Word, in him verily is the love of God perfected". So who shall we put our faith in? God is the one true father, the only one we should be calling father, and Jesus Christ is the only leader and founder of the church, which was founded on Pentacost. Preachers and Ministers should encourage their congregation to study all of the Bible, and to put trust in what the Bible says, not what they say, because man is far from perfect and will make mistakes, but God doesn't, and He does not change because He did get it right the first time. We need preachers to teach us the Word and to help save the lost, but they can only do that by preaching the Truth, which we can all know. Follow what God has said, and if anyone tells you the Bible got it wrong or times have changed so the Word changes, who are you going to follow? Your soul depends upon the answer.