Good For Nothing Christians
by Chuck Baldwin
July 10, 2009

“Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men,” Matt. 5:13 KJV.

Jesus said that salt without savor is “good for nothing.” Savor is the ingredient, the character that gives salt its quality–and its value. When salt is as it should be, it is a most precious commodity. Not only is it used as a seasoning; it is, more importantly, a preservative. As most everyone knows, salt was the primary source of food preservation before the days of refrigeration. Salt has been deemed to be so valuable at times that wars have actually been waged over it. During times of unusual deprivation, salt can be even more valuable than precious metals. But when salt loses its saltiness, it is absolutely worthless; it is “good for nothing.”

Jesus plainly proclaimed that He viewed His disciples as being the salt of society. In other words, when believers have the character they should have, they provide the preservation of the land. They hold back and retard the putrefying properties of spoilage and decay. But when Christians lose their character, when they lose the internal resistance to decay, they become “good for nothing” and the result is, the land is “trodden under foot of men.”

It grieves me to say that, for the most part, the modern Christian, the modern pastor, and the modern church have lost their savor. Taken as a whole, we have lost our inner character: the ability to resist decay and preserve the land has long departed, and America is fast being “trodden under foot of men.”

Our churches are no longer places of respite from the world: they are mirrors of it: the same dress; the same attitudes; the same carnality; the same spirit; the same stubbornness; the same pride. Churches are no longer bastions of truth: they are glorified social clubs or mere corporations, where Christianity is never allowed to interfere with business. Instead of being watchmen on the wall, our pastors are CEOs or, even worse, politicians. Popularity and personal ambition far outweigh commitment to truth and an independent mind. And as for Christian homes, forget it. The modern American home is straight out of Isaiah chapter three: “babes shall rule over them.” In the average “Christian” home, children rule the mothers, and mothers, in turn, rule the fathers. Discipline and instruction are out; leniency and ignorance are in.

We have a pandemic all right, but it’s not the swine flu: it is a pandemic of spineless Christianity. Parents who cannot stand up to their own children; pastors who cannot stand up to their own congregations; religious leaders who cannot stand up to politicians; and churches that cannot stand up to unconstitutional government.

Our so-called “conservative Christian” special interest groups are far more concerned about not losing financial contributions than they are about confronting the real evils of society. And as far as the Religious Right is concerned, it lost its soul somewhere early on in the first administration of George W. Bush.

If one is looking for someone to blame America’s demise on, don’t look to the prostitutes, drug dealers, or crooked politicians: look no further than the doorsteps of America’s churches. While the ominous clouds of oppression and tyranny boil overhead, our churches are content to play kid games and wallow in their own materialism and laziness. I realize there are exceptions to the rule, of course, but they are few and far between.

Sadder still is the lack of anything on the horizon that points to any kind of spiritual awakening. Look at the churches that are growing: for the most part, they are of the Joel Osteen and Rick Warren variety, where conviction has been replaced with compromise, and popularity has replaced principle. Genuine Bible prophets usually occupy the pulpits where hardly anyone attends. Truth has been replaced with entertainment, and calls for repentance are drowned out by the clamor for prosperity theology.

I can tell you from personal experience that, in more than 34 years of Gospel ministry, it has never been harder to continue to carry the torch of truth than it is today. It takes a toll on one’s physical health and emotional being, and even on one’s family. Any pastor desiring to carry the torch of truth today need not expect to have many friends. And any evangelist desiring to carry the torch of truth today need not expect to get many meetings. Truth is about as popular as a bad case of the measles, and yes, I mean among today’s professing “Christians.”

Should it surprise us, then, that we see the encroachment of our liberties and the erosion of constitutional government coming hard and fast? Should it surprise us that America is losing its conscience–not to mention our heritage? Should it surprise us when we see hundreds of large, empty internment camps popping up everywhere? Should it surprise us when we read of would-be tyrants in Washington, D.C., trying to pass egregious legislation that would strip us of our Bill of Rights? Should it surprise us when we see multinational corporations working with foreign governments to erode the sovereignty of these United States? Should it surprise us when we see both Republican and Democratic Presidential administrations look the other way while our borders are being invaded and even erased?

When the salt loses its savor, it is “cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.” And that is exactly what is happening to us today.

Does all this make me fatalistic? Not at all. I am absolutely convinced that God will always reserve to Himself a faithful remnant and a land of liberty for those who desire it. But before we talk about the land, we must be sure that our hearts are willing to pay the price to obtain it. We’ll leave that discussion for another time.

In my last post, I had my little rant about how I’m fed up with today’s so called “Christian Leadership”.

In this post, I want to expose some of the origins of current church “practice” and “tradition”.

When Christ began His ministry, and the apostles ministered, and set up “churches”, The church was known to be a body of believers. It was never a “building”. As a matter of fact, the first church “building” was constructed under Constantine in the early 300’s.
He was a worshipper of Mithra, who was born December 25th. He took the Pagan practices of his day, and moved them into the church.

He was looking to unite all people, so he decided the best way to do that was through religion. He said that Christians would no longer have to pay taxes. All of a sudden, it was popular for everyone to be a “Christian”! And instead of doing away with the celebration of Mithra’s birthday, he adopted it into the Roman church and claimed they could celebrate Christ’s birthday on December 25th instead.

Jeremiah 10:2-4 “Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.”

It was a Pagan practice to cut a tree down, bring it in the house and nail it to the floor and decorate it. And we have brought that pagan practice to honor the god Mithra right into our own homes.

What about “The Holy Eucharist”? Where did that come from? Most already know that it came from “The Lords Supper”. Does anyone know what “Supper” is?

It’s certainly not a stale cracker and a shot glass of grape juice! It’s a SUPPER! It’s a spread. It’s meatloaf and chicken, and green beans, and potato salad.

The whole purpose of the Lord’s Supper was to get together and feast and enjoy one another's company and share our JOY in the Lord.
How do you think most churches today would react if we began celebrating the Lord’s Supper the way the scriptures teach?

Did you know there was no “Alter Call” prior to the 1600’s? “How were people saved”? you ask. By believing in Christ and living their lives for Him. You can’t get saved by filling out the back of a card. You’re not saved by dedicating your life to a building. It is “He that shall endure to the end shall be saved”.

What about the sermon? Did you know that there were a group called “Sophists” who studied how to give great speeches? When church buildings began to be erected, these Sophists were placed as the speakers because they could deliver great sounding speeches.

So who did the preaching prior to the sophists? Everyone! The church had no leader, it had no choir or praise team. Believers would simply gather in each others homes and worship God, give testimony of what the Lord was doing in their lives, make up their own songs. It was worship in Spirit and in Truth!

You may have read an earlier post I did on The Tithe. If you haven’t, I encourage you to read it because it goes into detail to really drive the point home. The tithe is not for the church. It never was. The ten percent became popular in the 700’s to pay the 10% rent used in the Roman Empire. It was later justified using the Old Testament (Although the Old Testament tithe was over 23%).

So much of today’s “tradition” comes from Pagan Rome. Mark 7:13 says people have made the word of God of no effect by their traditions.

So if all this Pagan tradition began in Rome, what do we conclude? The conclusion is that the TRUE church that Christ taught devolved in the early 300’s into the Roman Church. The Protestants that decided to come out of the Roman church system kept many of their traditions. That’s why we have 3600 denominations today. No one can seem to agree on anything because they refuse to go by what the Word of God says and do things the way Christ set it up two thousand years ago.

Just look at the Roman Church today (You can insert the word Catholic here) The Roman Catholic church reveres Mary as equal with God, and higher than Christ. Nowhere in scripture will you find any instance of someone praying to Mary. Nowhere in scripture will you find someone with a Rosary and doing ten hail Mary’s. There is no forgiveness of sins here. There is no salvation in a bunch of idolatrous beads!

It’s the BLOOD OF JESUS. Nothing more, and certainly nothing less. Time is short people. The time has come to decide which side of the fence you’re going to fall on, because God is not going to let us continue playing religion. He is coming for a Royal People, a Holy Nation, a Bride without spot or wrinkle.

Although I've only scratched the surface of Pagan practice in this post, there is much more to be exposed.

Revelation 18:4 says "And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues."

The subject here is "My People". These are God's people, and they are to "Come out of her". The "Her" spoken of here is the Whore of Babylon. The whole World/Church system that has prostituted herself with other religions. The reason for coming out is so that we don't have to take part in the plagues that are about to befall her.

If you are interested in learning more along this line, or feel let down by "doing church" instead of "being the church", or if you feel that something is lacking in main stream church today, I would encourage you to read “Pagan Christianity” by Frank Viola, and another book by him called “Reimagining Church”.

There is also a book you can either purchase, or download for free called “So you don’t want to go to church anymore”. You can download this book HERE

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