Get the Hell Out of Church
Get the Hell Out of Church

Author: Dr. Holt Clarke

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2013-05

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 1449793444

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Churches rife with infighting and backstabbing. Biblical illiteracy rampant among Christians. Atheism on the rise. Nearly four thousand church closings a year. And business is booming for the Devil. The church mortality rate is at epidemic proportions, and the current rate of morbidity is staggering. People are leaving the church in droves, tired of the hate, intolerance, and hypocrisy. The prevalence of gang leadership through bullying is creating a crisis of spiritual leadership for many church communities. Numerous churches are facing the threat of extinction as they perilously condone devilish behaviors that are worldly, divisive, and hypocritical. Caution is thrown to the wind as church bullies subvert the witness of Christianity in the world. In "Get the Hell Out of Church," author Holt Clarke provides biblical wisdom and practical insights for diagnosing and effectively addressing destructive attitudes and behaviors that wreak havoc and subvert the spiritual life of a church community. Having served over twenty years in spiritual combat, enduring several tours of duty as a pastor, Holt Clarke writes from firsthand experience in dealing with evil behaviors that take church communities by storm. With theological expertise, Holt Clarke equips and empowers you to clean house and throw the Devil out with the trash. Join Holt Clarke for a literary experience in spiritual calisthenics that can optimize your spiritual life while promoting church health and growth. A powerful concentration of spiritual awareness and practical wisdom, this book can equip and empower you to detect and put a stop to virulent behaviors while promoting spiritual health and well-being. You will learn: practical and biblical insights into the spiritual nature of evil, how to effectively deal with the emotional baggage derived from toxic experiences, and no-nonsense strategies to triumph over evil attitudes and behaviors that afflict and subvert your life.

Get the Hell Out of the Church
Get the Hell Out of the Church

Author: C.N. Sensse

Publisher: Booktango

Published: 2013-08-19

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 1468935968

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Get the Hell Out of the Church, is the second book in the "Turning the Tables," series. It was written as a guide for the churchgoing Christian of today to be able to determine whether the leadership in the church they attend is, in fact, serving God or serving the devil. The book also frankly discusses what today's Christian can do to be sure they are in a church where God intends them to be and what action to take whether they are or not.

The Gospel of Inclusion
The Gospel of Inclusion

Author: Carlton Pearson

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2009-03-10

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1416585036

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Fourth-generation fundamentalist Carlton Pearson, a Christian megastar and host, takes a courageous and controversial stand on religion that proposes a hell-less Christianity and a gospel of inclusion that calls for an end to local and worldwide conflicts and divisions along religious lines. In The Gospel of Inclusion, Bishop Carlton Pearson explores the exclusionary doctrines in mainstream religion and concludes that, according to the evidence of the Bible and irrefutable logic, they cannot be true. Bishop Pearson argues that the controlling dogmas of religion are the source of much of the world's ills and that we should turn our backs on proselytizing and holy wars and focus on the real good news: that we are all bound for glory, everybody is saved, and if we believe God loves all mankind, then we have no choice but to have the same attitude ourselves. Bishop Pearson tells the story of how he had gone from a powerful religious figure, once preaching to an audience of over 6,000 people, to watching everything he had built crumble around him due to a scandal. Why? He didn't steal money nor did he have inappropriate sexual relationships. Following a revelation from God, he began to preach that a loving God would not condemn most of the human race to hell because they are not Christian. He preaches that God belongs to no religion. The Gospel of Inclusion is the inspiring journey of one man's quest to preach a new truth.

The Skeletons in God's Closet
The Skeletons in God's Closet

Author: Joshua Ryan Butler

Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM

Published: 2014-10-21

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 052910055X

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How can a loving God send people to hell? Isn’t it arrogant to believe Jesus is the only way to God? What is up with holy war in the Old Testament? Many of us fear God has some skeletons in the closet. Hell, judgment, and holy war are hot topics for the Christian faith that have a way of igniting fierce debate far and wide. These hard questions leave many wondering whether God is really good and can truly be trusted. The Skeletons in God's Closet confronts our popular caricatures of these difficult topics with the beauty and power of the real thing. Josh Butler reveals that these subjects are consistent with, rather than contradictory to, the goodness of God. He explores Scripture to reveal the plotlines that make sense of these tough topics in light of God’s goodness. From fresh angles, Josh deals powerfully with such difficult passages as: The Lake of Fire Lazarus and the Rich Man The Slaughter of Canaanites in the Old Testament Ultimately, The Skeletons in God's Close uses our toughest questions to provoke paradigm shifts in how we understand our faith as a whole. It pulls the “skeletons out of God’s closet” to reveal they were never really skeletons at all.

Hell's Best Kept Secret
Hell's Best Kept Secret

Author: Ray Comfort

Publisher: Whitaker House

Published: 2004-07-01

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1603749926

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How many souls have you won to Christ? How many are still walking with the Lord? All, some, a few? The facts are: Evangelical success is at an all-time low. We’re producing more backsliders than true converts. The fall-away rate—from large crusades to local churches—is between 80 to 90 percent. Why are so many unbelievers turning away from the message of the gospel? Doesn’t the Bible tell us how to bring sinners to true repentance? If so, where have we missed it? The answer may surprise you. One hundred years ago, Satan buried the crucial key needed to unlock the unbeliever’s heart. Now Ray Comfort boldly breaks away from modern tradition and calls for a return to biblical evangelism. If you’re experiencing evangelical frustration over lost souls, unrepentant sinners, and backslidden “believers,” then look no further. This radical approach could be the missing dimension needed to win our generation to Christ.

Rethinking Hell
Rethinking Hell

Author: Christopher M. Date

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2014-04-15

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1630871605

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Most evangelical Christians believe that those people who are not saved before they die will be punished in hell forever. But is this what the Bible truly teaches? Do Christians need to rethink their understanding of hell? In the late twentieth century, a growing number of evangelical theologians, biblical scholars, and philosophers began to reject the traditional doctrine of eternal conscious torment in hell in favor of a minority theological perspective called conditional immortality. This view contends that the unsaved are resurrected to face divine judgment, just as Christians have always believed, but due to the fact that immortality is only given to those who are in Christ, the unsaved do not exist forever in hell. Instead, they face the punishment of the "second death"--an end to their conscious existence. This volume brings together excerpts from a variety of well-respected evangelical thinkers, including John Stott, John Wenham, and E. Earl Ellis, as they articulate the biblical, theological, and philosophical arguments for conditionalism. These readings will give thoughtful Christians strong evidence that there are indeed compelling reasons for rethinking hell.

Popular in Heaven Famous in Hell
Popular in Heaven Famous in Hell

Author: R.T. Kendall

Publisher: Charisma Media

Published: 2018-09-04

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1629995525

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FEATURES AND BENEFITS Balanced teaching on heaven and hell, good and evil, and the effect our lives have on both realms Insights to help readers access God’s purpose and plan so they can live truly meaningful lives Would you risk your reputation to find out what is pleasing to God? The greatest thing that can ever be said about a person is that he or she pleased God. But while pleasing God makes you popular in heaven, it may not make you popular on earth. Do you have the temptation to be well received here on earth? Do you make spiritual decisions based upon what people will think of you? Going a step further, have you considered whether you have any reputation in hell? Are you living the kind of life that causes a threat to Satan’s interests? That’s how you become famous in hell. It’s time to stop valuing your reputation with people more than your reputation with God. Start living your life with eternity in mind. Respected theologian and author R. T. Kendall has written this book to help you discover the keys to living a life that truly pleases God, making you not only popular in heaven, but also famous in hell.

Erasing Hell
Erasing Hell

Author: Francis Chan

Publisher: David C Cook

Published: 2011-07-01

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 0781407257

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Addressing a variety of views on hell, the Bible, and the character of God, offers an eloquent response to the recent media storm surrounding questions of eternal destiny.

Close Your Church for Good
Close Your Church for Good

Author: Jeremy Myers

Publisher:

Published: 2020-05-15

Total Pages: 788

ISBN-13: 9781939992727

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Lots of churches around the world are struggling to survive. Maybe instead they should follow Jesus into death so that they can rise again. I suggest several things that churches can do to follow Jesus into the world. These ways allow us to BE the church rather than just attend church.

Love Wins
Love Wins

Author: Rob Bell

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2011-03-15

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 006204964X

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Millions of Christians have struggled with how to reconcile God's love and God's judgment: Has God created billions of people over thousands of years only to select a few to go to heaven and everyone else to suffer forever in hell? Is this acceptable to God? How is this "good news"? Troubling questions—so troubling that many have lost their faith because of them. Others only whisper the questions to themselves, fearing or being taught that they might lose their faith and their church if they ask them out loud. But what if these questions trouble us for good reason? What if the story of heaven and hell we have been taught is not, in fact, what the Bible teaches? What if what Jesus meant by heaven, hell, and salvation are very different from how we have come to understand them? What if it is God who wants us to face these questions? Author, pastor, and innovative teacher Rob Bell presents a deeply biblical vision for rediscovering a richer, grander, truer, and more spiritually satisfying way of understanding heaven, hell, God, Jesus, salvation, and repentance. The result is the discovery that the "good news" is much, much better than we ever imagined. Love wins.