Mob Mentality Breeds Apostasy

It’s easy to assume pastors, preachers, and ministers are always right. But that assumption is all too often dangerous this day in age.

Because many leaders are simply no longer teaching the Word of God. They’re dishing out a version of Christianity they’ve shaped to fit their own desires, and far too many congregations nod along without question.

“Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.” Matt 7:15

I’m seeing it more and more as each day passes. A leader drifts off course, and instead of conviction correcting the moment, silence fills the room. People are reading the room more than they read their own Bible.

The conviction stirs inside, but comfort wins out. And just like that, a church stops being the body of Christ and becomes a crowd primed for deception.

Psychology calls it mob mentality. Scripture calls it apostasy.

That is a deliberate turning away; a conscious rejection of Christ and His teachings.

One person stays silent. Then another. Then another.

Slowly, conviction collapses in favour of fitting in.

As the congregation drifts, satan seizes a foothold, whispering into that leader’s ear. They then test boundaries because they can, knowing the congregation will go along; this is an easily self-feeding cycle.

A closed loop of delusion dressed in church language and religious ritual.

We were warned.

“For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.” 2 Tim 4:3

We were also forewarned of the consequences.

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’ Matt 7:21–23

When conviction and comfort clash, where do you fall?

© Jane Isley