Lucas Miles, lead pastor of Nfluence Church and senior director of TPUSA Faith, gave a bold challenge to nearly 700 church leaders during last week’s Turning Point USA (TPUSA) Faith Forward Pastors Summit in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.
During his opening address, Miles told the pastors and church leaders in the room that “we need to be not just the church of today, because the church of the day, as soon as it is the church of today, and you stay there tomorrow, it’s the church of yesterday.”
“So we need to keep looking to be the church of tomorrow,” he continued. “To be the people that God has called us to be, to be ready for the days that are ahead, so that we can live out the purposes of God.”
Miles gave the church leaders insight into recent dealings he had with people who identify as Christians but who, when they were asked to explain certain gospel facts, failed to do so. The Indiana pastor shared that while he was on the Las Vegas strip interviewing people, many of whom called themselves Christians, he would ask them to explain what is going to happen to them when they die.
“About 50% of the people that told me they were a Christian told me that they believed in reincarnation,” Miles said. “We have a biblical worldview issue,” he added, because the church has allowed some beliefs on the gospel-only train that “didn’t have a ticket to ride.”
Miles told ChurchLeaders that while he was doing research for his new book “Pagan Threat: Confronting America’s Godless Uprising,” which is set to be released in September, he found that pagan ideologies, like “crystals, white sage, witchcraft, tarot cards, and potions” have crept into the church.
Miles told the summit that “instead of [the church] being salt and light and calling balls and strikes,” he believes “we’ve brought things [of the world] back in, and we’ve not distinguished the difference between them, and it’s created a massive amount of confusion.”
“I believe that we’re in a post-Christian nation in many ways, and we need a new apology, a new apologetic, in order to win over this nation once again,” he continued.
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