Useful Steps

Many churches will be affected by this. Warren group figures put the number of church pastors that they have contact with as being Above sixty-thousand.

But much can be done by believing Christians who are close to God if this happens to your church:

1. Remember, your church situation may be a surprise to you but not to God

2. Your growth and the spiritual growth of your family rests with the Bible, NOT with PDL/PDC material

3. Be conscious to take actions toward pro-active alternatives to increase your own Spiritual Discerment.
if you have children, help them memorize verses about the importance of sound doctrine and being faithful to God, and having courage in tough situations.

4. Take time to pray- about this.
The strength of a christian believe is rooted in their prayer life. Christians who pray long are christians who stay strong. (Ok that sounds a bit too easy...but you get the picture). The fact is that Prayer and knowing the Bible are what the Lord has equiped us with...for the spiritual battle.

5. If your Bible version has no power, switch versions. (see our section on Bible Versions for more info).

6. Understand that regardless of how fast the Warren process is applied to your church, that this does not mean that you or your family are lost. (thankfully, church attendance has nothing to do with salvation). But how fast a church may convert to the Warren process, can serve as a spiritual barometer of the spiritual state of the leaders of the church. That may be revealing, about whether or not that Church is the right place for you.

7. If you have signed covenants that commit you to silence, Break them. The message of the Gospel is Not to be constrained, and anything contrary is to be disregarded. (and if you have copies of documents or contracts, keep them and/or make copies).

7b. IF you have not turned back in either covenants or contracts with your signed name or personal data about you back to the "church", DO NOT turn them back in. That information is NOT going to your church, and it is not going to Stay in your church. It is going to a different computer center....

8. If you have friends whom you know are in spiritual danger, try to find the facts to back up your arguments, study and evaluate the material carefully, pray about it, and then share your concerns with them. They may reject you and/or your message, or they may express their own concerns.

9. Don't presume that because you are not sure which direction to take, that there is no direction for you to move towards. If you are unsure of what to do, then make a prayer list of your worries and concerns about this, and pray about this.

10. Use the situation to steady yourself spiritually. Decide that whatever the outcome to others, that the outcome for you is that you will ask the Lord to help you use the situation as an opportunity to grow in strength and closeness to HIM. Then try and read a book that is relevant, or set aside a bit of extra time, or do something additional - to help your spiritual life - that you would not have done prior to this situation. IN other words, be sure that you take steps to take away the victory of the spiritual enemy - that they otherwise would be trying to have in your life.

11. IF you have close friends who are involved, pray actively for them by name. Spiritual issues are won spiritually, and the Lord responds to prayer. Prayer changes things (just consult the books about George Muller and his ministry to orphans for the proof). Pray for your friends involved in this situation, both before you talk with them, and after.

Romans 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.