Jesustainment

I've invented a new word today, and that word is "Jesustainment."

"Jesustainment" is what is substituted for true teaching and true worship in many churches today.

"Jesustainment" dilutes God's Word and turns Sunday morning church services into something more akin to a flashy Broadway show or production, without offering anything of true or lasting spiritual substance.

"Jesustainment" offers amusement instead of true spiritual edification.

"Jesustainment" favors the world's entertainment values and gimmicks over a pure presentation of God's Word.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones once observed, "The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it."

"Jesustainment" should not come as a surprise to the authentic believer. In fact, Paul wrote about it to Timothy, in 2 Timothy 4:3-4 (NKJV), when he predicted, "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables."

If "Jesustainment" is the norm in your church, and if Sunday mornings have become nothing more than a weekly, "feel-good" entertainment show or production, then flee for your soul.