Ten Indictments against the Modern Church Quotes

“The doctrine of the carnal Christian[32] has destroyed more lives and sent more people to hell than you can imagine! Do Christians struggle with sin? Yes. Can a Christian fall into sin? Absolutely. Can a Christian live in a continuous state of carnality all the days of his life, not bearing fruit, and truly be Christian? Absolutely not !—or every promise in the Old Testament regarding the New Testament covenant of preservation has failed, and everything God said about discipline in Hebrews is a lie (Heb 12:6)! “A tree is known by its fruit” (Luk 6:44).”
― Paul Washer, Ten Indictments against the Modern Church

“We don’t have a lot of churches in America; we have a lot of really nice brick buildings on finely manicured lawns! Just because someone says they are of the Church or they are Christian, doesn’t make it so.”
― Paul Washer, Ten Indictments against the Modern Church

“Listen to yourself speak, saying, “The knowledge of God has no practical application.” Do you know why all your Christian bookstores are filled up with self-help books, and five ways to do this or that, and six ways to be godly, and 10 ways not to fall?—because people don’t know God! And so they have to be given all sorts of trivial little devices of the flesh to keep them walking as sheep ought to walk! “Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame” (1Co 15:34). Why the rampant sinning even among God’s people? It is a lack of the knowledge of God!”
― Paul Washer, Ten Indictments against the Modern Church

“You cannot learn doctrine well until you follow the doctrine you learn!”
― Paul Washer, Ten Indictments against the Modern Church

“Maybe that is why there are not a whole lot of problems between the church and worldly culture today, because we are not confronting the culture around us.”
― Paul Washer, Ten Indictments against the Modern Church

“So many pastors are trying to keep together a bunch of wicked people, while a little flock in the midst of them is starving to death and made to go in directions they don’t want to go. They are made to go along with the carnal majority!”
― Paul David Washer, Ten Indictments against the Modern Church

“authority. What we face now is the “sinner’s prayer.” And I am here to tell you, if there is anything I have declared war on, it is the sinner’s prayer. Yes, in the same way that dependence upon infant baptism for salvation,[29] in my opinion, was the golden calf [30] of the Reformation, the sinner’s prayer is the golden calf of today for the Baptists, the Evangelicals, and everyone else who has followed them. The sinner’s prayer has sent more people to hell than anything on the face of the earth! You say, “How can you say such a thing?” I answer: Go with me to Scripture and show me, please! I would love for you to show me where anyone evangelized that way. The Scripture does not tell us that Jesus Christ came to the nation of Israel and said, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand, now who would like to ask me into their hearts? I see that hand.” That is not what it says. He said, “Repent and believe the gospel” (Mar 1:15)! Men today are trusting in the fact that at least one time in their life they prayed a prayer, and someone told them they were saved because they were sincere enough. And so if you ask them, “Are you saved?” they do not say, “Yes I am, because I am looking unto Jesus and there is mighty evidence giving me assurance of being born again.” No!—they say instead, “One time in my life I prayed a prayer.” Now they live like devils, but they prayed a prayer!”
― Paul David Washer, Ten Indictments against the Modern Church

“Look at what it says: “I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.” The evidence that God has made an everlasting covenant with you, sir, is that He has put the fear of God in you, so that you will not turn away from Him. And if you turn away from Him and He does not discipline you, and you continue turning away from Him, it is evidence that He has not put His fear in you. This is evidence that you have not been regenerated—you have no covenant with God at all! This, dear friends, is biblical truth.”
― Paul Washer, Ten Indictments against the Modern Church

“La psicología, antropología y sociología han llegado a ser las influencias más poderosas en las iglesias.”
― Paul David Washer, Diez cargos contra la iglesia moderna

“Nu ai cum să înveți bine doctrină dacă nu urmezi doctrina pe care o înveți!”
― Paul Washer, 10 Indictments for the Modern Church

“A church ought to be seeker friendly, but the church ought to recognize there is only one Seeker. His name is God!—and if you want to be friendly to someone, if you want to accommodate someone, accommodate Him and His glory, even if it is rejected by everyone else.”
― Paul David Washer, Ten Indictments against the Modern Church

“Effectual ministry is hard, and it will cost you everything! And by the time you are an old man, you will be broken—but strong in the things of God!”
― Paul David Washer, Ten Indictments against the Modern Church

“if you ever come up with this idea as a man of God, “I am sacrificing my family for the sake of the ministry,” I will tell you: you are a bold faced liar. You are sacrificing your family for the sake of the little kingdom you are trying to build. I can say that because the will of God is perfect; that means I do not have to violate the will of God with regard to my family, in order to fulfill the will of God with regard to my ministry. God doesn’t need you! He does require, however, that you be obedient.”
― Paul David Washer, Ten Indictments against the Modern Church

“(Mat 12:33). Now, if you think that you have given Christ your heart, then He will have your body too. And I will tell you why. The heart, my friend, is not some blood-pumping muscle or some figment of a poet’s imagination. In the Bible, heart refers to the very essence or core of your being. Don’t tell me Jesus has the very essence and core of your being and it doesn’t affect your whole body and life. It just does not happen that way!”
― Paul David Washer, Ten Indictments against the Modern Church

“He let them both run wild. But in Esau there was no work of discipline, no work of godly correction, nothing—this was the wrath of God upon him! But God severely disciplined Jacob almost every day of his life—this was the love of God upon him! It was the loving discipline, the correction of God, to bring him to holiness. And it is the same for all true believers today.”
― Paul David Washer, Ten Indictments against the Modern Church

“The evidence that God has made an everlasting covenant with you, sir, is that He has put the fear of God in you, so that you will not turn away from Him. And if you turn away from Him and He does not discipline you, and you continue turning away from Him, it is evidence that He has not put His fear in you. This is evidence that you have not been regenerated—you have no covenant with God at all! This, dear friends, is biblical truth.”
― Paul David Washer, Ten Indictments against the Modern Church

“when you look back and you see Israel, you see a bunch of godless people, idolaters. And in the midst of them there was a tiny remnant of true believers.” That is true, but don’t apply that to the New Testament Church, because God says, “I am going to do something different, Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them, declares the LORD. But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD, I will put my law within them” (vs. 33).”
― Paul David Washer, Ten Indictments against the Modern Church

“Jesus gave His life for the Church, a beautiful, virgin, pristine Church. If you want to give your life for something in the ministry, give it to the Church: to a church, a body of believers, a local congregation.”
― Paul David Washer, Ten Indictments against the Modern Church

“God has only one religious institution: It is the Church. And our ultimate goal and the ultimate result of revival in this world will be the planting of biblical churches.”
― Paul David Washer, Ten Indictments against the Modern Church

“You have the authority to tell men the Gospel. You have authority to tell men how to be saved, and you have authority to teach men biblical principles of assurance. But you have no authority to tell men they are saved. That is the work of the Holy Spirit of God!”
― Paul David Washer, Ten Indictments against the Modern Church

“My dear friend, everybody wants to go to heaven—they just don’t want God to be there when they get there! The question is not, “do you want to go to heaven?” The question is this: “Do you want God? Have you stopped being a hater of God? Has Christ become precious to you? Do you desire Him?”
― Paul David Washer, Ten Indictments against the Modern Church

“You made a confession of faith in Christ. You professed Him even in baptism, but now it seems as though you have turned away from Him. Examine yourself. Test yourself. There is little evidence of any true conversion in you!”
― Paul David Washer, Ten Indictments against the Modern Church

“Is the Holy Spirit so at work in your heart through the preaching of the Gospel, that a change has been wrought, so that the sin you once loved you now hate, and the sin you once desired to embrace, you are wanting to run from it as though you were running from a dragon?”
― Paul David Washer, Ten Indictments against the Modern Church

“I submit to you that this country is not Gospel hardened; it is Gospel ignorant, because most of its preachers are. Let me repeat this. The malady in this country is not liberal politicians, the root of socialism, Hollywood, or anything else. It is the so-called evangelical pastor, preacher, or evangelist of our day; that is where the malady is to be found. We do not know the Gospel.[20] We have taken the glorious Gospel of our blessed God and reduced it down to four spiritual laws, and five things God wants you to know, with a little superstitious prayer at the end. And if someone repeats it after us with enough sincerity, we popishly declare them to be born again! We have traded regeneration[21] for decisionism.[22]”
― Paul David Washer, Ten Indictments against the Modern Church

“No somos llamados a construir imperios. No somos llamados a ser grandiosos. Somos llamados a glorificar a Dios.”
― Paul David Washer, Diez cargos contra la iglesia moderna

“want you to know, my friends, salvation is by faith alone! It is a work of God. It is a grace upon grace upon grace. But the evidence of conversion is not just your examination of your sincerity at the moment of your conversion. It is the on-going fruit in your life.”
― Paul David Washer, Ten Indictments against the Modern Church

“Jóvenes, disciplínense en la oración. Disciplínense para leer sistemática y repetidamente las Escrituras desde Génesis hasta el Apocalipsis.  Disciplínense en su hablar. Disciplínense y cuídense con quién andan. Disciplínense cuando se acuestan y cuando se levantan. Esta es una guerra. ¡Disciplínense!”
― Paul David Washer, Diez cargos contra la iglesia moderna

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”—Romans 12:1-2”
― Paul David Washer, Ten Indictments against the Modern Church

“Se cuenta que uno de los violinistas más grandes de Europa, ya anciano, dio un concierto final. Cuando terminó, se le acercó un joven violinista y le dijo: “Señor, yo daría mi vida por tocar como usted”. A esto, el anciano respondió: “Hijo, yo he dado mi vida por tocar como yo”.”
― Paul David Washer, Diez cargos contra la iglesia moderna

“Si tu ropa es un marco para tu rostro del cual emana la gloria de Cristo, complace a Dios. Pero si tu ropa es un marco para tu cuerpo, es sensual, Dios lo aborrece. La naturaleza de Dios guía nuestras decisiones en cada detalle de nuestra conducta.”
― Paul David Washer, Diez cargos contra la iglesia moderna