In a SermonAudio podcast, the pastoral staff of Berean Baptist Church in
Fayettville, North Carolina mocked those holding to a pretribulational
view of the Rapture.
It was snidely remarked that most American Christians cannot handle the idea of enduring systematic global persecution.
Maybe so.
But unless this church offers survivalist training that includes the use
of firearms and improvised explosive devices, aren't these pastors
suffering profound cognitive dissonance as to what they profess to be
coming?
Even worse, wouldn't they be guilty of an appalling degree of pastoral
negligence in failing to prepare those subjected to their spiritual
teaching?
Criticisms such as those enunciated by the pastoral staff are also
thinly veiled insults that Americans have things too comfortable.
But what about this particular congregation?
For when the armies and operatives of the Anti-Christ besiege the
nation, won't this church's sprawling entertainment center with its
coffee bar and such make a tempting target?
For this church is so rich that, despite going out of its way to inform
the world how much the pastoral staff despises the American flag, there
isn't simply a single flagpole on their property but at least five in
front of the entrance to this sprawling complex in its SermonAudio
profile photo.
By Frederick Meekins