Don’t turn back.

“I have undergone a massive shift in regard to my faith in Jesus. The popular phrase for this is ‘deconstruction,’ the biblical phrase is ‘falling away.’ By all the measurements I have for defining a Christian, I am not a Christian.” After announcing his divorce, Joshua Harris, author of “I Kissed Dating Goodbye,” and former pastor of a mega-church in Maryland, renouncing his faith.

“What I really miss is connection with people. What I’ve discovered is that I’m ready to connect again. And I’m kind of ready not to be angry anymore. I love you guys, and I love all the friendships and support I’ve built here. And I think it’s important to say that I’m just not a Christian anymore…” Paul Maxwell who wrote for ‘Desiring God’ website again renouncing his faith.

(these quotes are taken from the website Christian Post)

But why?

Were they ever truly in the faith?

There are more quotes and sadly there will be more to come. I hear of leaders going through a deconstructing of their faith and whatever that actually means it ends with them leaving their position and walking away from Church at least and God at worst.

They were doing the same thing in Peter’s generation. Of the false teachers/preachers Peter says:

“If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. (2 Peter 2 v 20-21)

“They are worse off than they were”: If a person has truly been set free then why would they return to being enslaved again? Does that not indicate they were not free in the first place?

“It would have been better not to have known”: What good is it for the person to have preached a lifestyle of freedom and forgiveness only to then turn away from what they have declared? If the truth is that the person was all the while a slave of sin then this Christian life will naturally become too burdensome and they will declare that either you can be a Christian and be whatever you want to be or they will walk away from Christianity altogether.

How is this possible? It is possible if actually the false teachers/preacher are indeed false. They got there under false pretences. They fooled everyone including themselves. But judgment is harder for these people.

For this is a ‘don’t turn back’ faith.