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Believers encouraged to find the 'cure for common Christianity'

A new book has hit shelves claiming that Christianity in America has caught a chronic case of apathy and encouraging believers to get back to the basics of the Bible.



In his new book The Cure for Common Christianity, Pastor Tommy Galloway says the modern church in the United States should be having a greater impact for God's kingdom and glory. Galloway says there is a spiritually sick world waiting for a healthy church to offer it hope. But for many churches, he says, the Great Commission has become the "great omission" -- "because we have omitted to do what Jesus said to do."

In one chapter called "Candy-Coated Cross," the author says many churches today do not preach the full counsel of God's Word. "I really think that we have candy-coated or sugar-coated the gospel of Jesus Christ," explains Galloway. "The Bible says that in the last days, people will come and 'tell me what I want to hear.'"

The pastor and author says many of the messages heard in pulpits today are meant to please people -- "Itching ears is what the Bible calls it," says the pastor -- and do not talk about the cost of following Christ.

"I believe you can come just as you are," Galloway acknowledges, "but Jesus said 'take up your cross and follow me.' I've got a thing in the Candy-Coated Cross [chapter] about 'peppermint preachers' and 'taffy teachers' saying things that are pleasing to our ears."

And the pastor implies that when they do not hear what they find pleasing, some believers go to great measures seeking it out. "[W]hen children play with each other and they get upset, they take their toys and go home," he explains. In a similar vein, he says, "church members take their membership and change churches -- and they go from church to church."

Galloway is pastor of Word of Life Church in Tupelo, Mississippi.

Unfortunately we are living in the days where people do not want to hear about sins and such. Heck... people have down right lost all respect for each other and the world. It is truly a ME ME ME generation.

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Yep that is right.  Our society has replaced the Trinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost with Me, Myself, and I.

Unfortunately it is true that churches have become lukewarm and are so busy fighting among themselves that they have no time for making disciples. There is a lack of union among believers who want nothing to do with other believers because they are of another denomination, or they have slightly different beliefs.