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Volume 26, Issue 4
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The Salt & Light Brigade
Secular ‘Christianity’
By Coach Dave Daubenmire August 2025
dom of God is within you.’”
Webster’s defines “sec- ular” as: “Pertaining to the present world, or to things not spiritual or holy; relating to things not immediately or pri- marily respecting the soul, but the body; worldly.” The Apostle Paul called it “a form of godliness denying the power thereof…” In fact, he considered it so damaging that he exhorted believers that “from such turn away.” Just a warning…this will not be a feel- good article. If you’re an Evanjellyfish you might want to stop reading right now. By the way, for those of you in the back row, an Evanjellyfish is a Christian with- out a backbone. Most American churches are populated with them. They are the mutant children produced by the false prosperity gospel. You know…the “name it and claim it” crew with the big church and the media-star pastor.
What? The
Kingdom is within the be- liever? Is that why Jesus told us “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” Stop right now and read John 3.
satellites produced a secularized, hu- manistic version of Christianity.
Read it again. They were new BELIEV- ERS…but they had no power. The Holy Spirit IS THE POWER! In fact, Paul asked a group of new believers in Acts 19, “Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, ‘We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.’” Sounds like most denominations today. I was having a discussion the other day with a man who was singing the praises of his “Holy Ghost” filled church.
The world sits in the midst of perilous times. Only Christ and His Followers can right the ship. The world is waiting on us. “For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be com- pared with the glory which shall be re- vealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifesta- tion of the sons of God.” “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto Me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.”
(I warned you. It’s not too late to quit reading.)
“Pardon me…Holy Ghost filled?” I
asked. “Is there any other kind?”
Christianity is not a religion. Islam is a religion. So is Buddhism…and Confus- cianism…Humanism…Republicanism… Mr. Webster defined religion as “perfor- mance of the duties we owe directly to God, from a principle of obedience to His will.” Christianity is different from the scores of “religions” in the world in that it is the only “religion” that believes in and pro- motes the possibility of a PERSONAL re- lationship with our Creator through an indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Hence, Christianity is a RELATIONSHIP with our CREATOR…not a religion. But men turned it into a religion… hence the nearly 44,000 different CHRIS- TIAN versions of how Christianity is to be lived out. Jesus told us that it was nec- essary for us to be “born again.” In fact, He told us “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
The American Church has become sec- ularized — powerless to EXPAND the Kingdom of God — nothing more than a “Christian” social club. Jesus told a group of new believers in the book of Acts, “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto Me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.”
What are “believers” so afraid of?
Have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed?
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Is there real power in your faith? Are you a witness to Christ everywhere you go? In the book of ACTS, the new believers were ac- cused of “turning the world upside down.” Where is the power of God today? The world has capsized and it has been done under the watchful eye of the Secular- ized American Church. Cable TV de- stroyed Christian- ity. The “name it and claim it…grab it and blab it” ver- sion of Christianity spewed over the
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