Things That Grow Together: Church Decadence

The media often exposes, almost with glee, Christians who have fallen from grace. It seems that Christians are supposed to discard humanness and acquire immunity to worldliness. In godly wisdom, the book of Matthew, chapter 13 explains that there will always be tare that grows among the wheat. The church is often thought to be a congregation of perfect, unspotted people. But the truth of the matter is that congregations often consist of those who lie and commit adultery, alcoholics, and man...