Join Pastor Lucas Miles as he delivers a timely message addressing the growing cultural shift toward pagan and post-Christian worldviews. In this sermon, Pastor Lucas emphasizes that the challenge facing the church is not individual people, but the larger attempt to replace the Christian worldview with spiritual substitutes that promise meaning yet lead people away from the truth of the Gospel. He explains why the church must understand both the moment we’re living in and the direction society is moving—preparing to become the “Church of Tomorrow” by standing firm with clarity, conviction, and grace.

Throughout the message, Pastor Lucas highlights the importance of open dialogue within the church, pointing to our upcoming “Ask Me Anything” Sunday as an opportunity for honest questions and deeper discipleship. He also unpacks the significance of communion as a reminder of Christ’s victory and the transformation available to every believer. Drawing from early church history, he shows how Christians in ancient Rome defended their faith against false accusations and makes clear the parallels to modern criticisms of Christianity today—accusations of bigotry, judgmentalism, and irrelevance.

Pastor Lucas then explores humanity’s built-in awareness of God and explains how suppressing that truth leads to spiritual confusion and the rise of alternative belief systems. He addresses the increasing popularity of modern spiritual trends—earth worship, reincarnation, astrology, manifestation, chakras, and globalism—revealing how the desires behind these beliefs ultimately point back to what only Christ can fulfill. The message concludes with a call to reestablish the goodness of God in people’s hearts, demolish arguments that set themselves against the knowledge of God, and invite those seeking spiritual truth to find their answers in Jesus.

Key Themes:

 • The rise of pagan and post-Christian worldviews
 • Preparing to be the “Church of Tomorrow”
 • The importance of open dialogue (“Ask Me Anything” Sunday)
 • Communion and the victory of Christ
 • Early Christian apologetics and modern accusations
 • Humanity’s innate awareness of God
 • The pursuit of spirituality in all the wrong places
 • Reestablishing God’s goodness in a confused culture
 • Calling seekers to truth found only in Jesus

Timestamps:

3:21 — The Church of Tomorrow & Facing Cultural Threats
 3:40 — The Rise of Post-Christian & Pagan Worldviews
 3:59 — Paganism, Marxism & Competing Ideologies
 4:17 — Understanding Today to Prepare for Tomorrow
 4:54 — A New “Apology”: Defending the Christian Faith
 5:59 — Early Church Apologetics: Justin Martyr & Rome
 7:27 — Accusations Faced by Early Christians
 12:21 — Modern Accusations Against the Church
 13:46 — Romans 1: Awareness & Suppression of God
 17:03 — The Search for Meaning & Spiritual Confusion
 21:44 — Pagan Pursuits vs. Fulfillment in Christ
 26:14 — Globalism & the Kingdom of God

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