"Shout it aloud, do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet. Declare to my people their rebellion and to the house of Jacob their sins. For day after day they seek me out; they seem eager to know my ways, as if they were a nation that does what is right and has not forsaken the commands of its God. They ask me for just decisions and seem eager for God to come near them. Isa. 58:1-2)

(1) a defining of particular sins by the word of God and an attempt to convince the hearers of their guilt of those sins,

(2) a declaration of what the Bible says about God's punishment for sin

(3) a declaration of both the need for repentance and of the forgiveness of sins through faith in Christ, and

(4) a clear command to repent and believe.

“A yet more specious form of Satan's gospel is to move preachers to present the atoning sacrifice of Christ and then tell their hearers that all God requires from them is to ‘believe’ in His Son. Thereby thousands of impenitent souls are deluded into thinking that they have been saved. But Christ said, ‘Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish’ (Luke 13:3). To ‘repent’ is to hate sin, to sorrow over, to turn from it. It is the result of the Spirit's making the heart contrite before God. None except a broken heart can savingly believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.”

Again, thousands are deceived into supposing that they have ‘accepted Christ’ as their ‘personal Saviour’, who has not first received Him as their LORD. The Son of God did not come here to save people in their sins, but ‘from their sins’ (Matthew 1:21). To be saved from sins, is to be saved from ignoring and despising the authority of God, it is to abandon the course of self-will and self-pleasing, it is to ‘forsake our way’ (Isa. 55:7). It is to surrender to God's authority, to yield to His dominion, to give us over to be ruled by Him. The one who has never taken Christ's ‘yoke’ upon him, who is not truly and diligently seeking to please Him in all the details of his life, and yet supposes that he is ’resting on the Finished Work of Christ’ is deluded by the Devil.”

Christian principles of self-denial and sacrifice are largely alien to modern Evangelicals. Many covetously pursue wealth and material things, live for the fulfillment of their own ambitions and desires, and spend much of their time entertaining themselves. But the Scriptures condemn those who live for pleasure as being dead already (1 Tim. 5:6), and the covetous are said to be idol worshippers who have no inheritance in the kingdom of God (Eph. 5:5).

The true worship of God is not limited to certain times and places, and it does not consist of the performance of outward rituals. True worship is an inward spiritual love of God which the believer bears in his heart at all times, and which he manifests by diligently observing the commandments of God in all facets of his life. But of this worship, the great majority of today's Evangelicals know nothing. They have a dualistic concept of the worship of God in which worship is thought to be the performance of devotional ceremonies for brief periods in particular situations. Thus, one hears them erroneously refer to weekly church meetings as “worship services,” and they make an anti-biblical delineation between what they call their “spiritual life” and the other parts of their lives in which the teachings of the Bible are largely ignored.

The preachers of modern Evangelicalism preach a "false feel-good" gospel which does not confront those in the audience with their sins and does not demand repentance from its hearers. Thus, it fails to produce true conversions (this has been more fully explained under the previous heading).

Among today's Evangelicals, the Christian's responsibility to keep the commandments of God is treated as if it is an option rather than an obligation. Though they may deny it with their words, they act as though Jesus Christ not only fulfilled the law but also destroyed it completely, and that Christians are now free to do whatever is right in their own eyes. Many of them go so far as to portray those who diligently observe the commandments as being guilty of sinful legalism or of trying to earn salvation by works.

The adherents of Evangelicalism are largely "ignorant" of the Holy Scriptures. There are some, who can quote facts and figures from the Bible and recite Bible verses, but very few of them understand the Bible well enough to compose an exegetical defense of their beliefs, and many of them believe that they have no responsibility to do so. This, they think, is the job of the professional clergymen. But those who claim that their beliefs are derived from the Bible must be able to establish and defend them from the Bible if they are going to profess them as truth. However, the great majority of Evangelicals can do nothing more in support of their professed beliefs than cough up a “proof text” or two (at best), and when further questioned state: “You'll have to ask my pastor about that.”

As is the case with all false forms of Christianity, apostate Evangelicalism makes the word of God subordinate to the teachings of man. This is usually manifested in one or more of the following ways:

(1) Loyalty to the doctrines of a particular sect or creed, regardless of the fact that the adherent is unable to biblically exegete said doctrines himself,

(2) imposition upon the Bible of modern “politically correct” (i.e., worldly) concepts of truth and morality, and a refusal to abandon these presuppositions when they are shown to disagree with the word of God,

(3) adherence to an artificial and inflexible method of Bible interpretation, to which the Scriptures must be conformed, regardless of the inconsistencies that the system creates.

If Evangelicals have a test of faithfulness at all, it is one in which profession is overemphasized, and practice is de-emphasized. That is, they give credence to the doctrines that one professes to believe, but little or no attention is paid to the daily practice of godly living, or lack thereof. In most cases, as long as one expresses agreement with a statement of faith (whether that statement is brief or lengthy, modern or ancient), and refrains from the habitual practice of the most blatant forms of wickedness, he is counted a Christian.

Modern Evangelicalism is sectarian in nature. Rather than having one Christian church teaching one system of doctrine and having numerous local congregations, as in the Bible, Evangelicals divide themselves into multitudes of sects (denominations) which have no connection to one another, and teach many different and conflicting doctrines, yet are all acknowledged by them to be branches of one Christian church.

An anti-scriptural essential/nonessential doctrinal delineation is almost universally maintained throughout Evangelicalism. Because they cannot come to agreement on matters of the faith, they have reduced Christianity to a list of 4-6 basic doctrines that are deemed “essential” by them. There is no biblical justification for such a distinction, but it helps them to create an artificial semblance of unity because it allows them to set aside doctrines on which they disagree, rather than come to a true unity based on mutual adherence to the truth. And all who profess these few “essential” beliefs are counted as Christians by them, regardless of how many other biblical doctrines they pervert or how many of God's commandments they ignore.

A false concept of love is commonly held by today's Evangelicals. To many of them, loving people is accepting them “just as they are,” and to confront them with their sins and tell them that they must repent, is considered unloving and sinfully judgmental. Thus they, in effect, equate expressing love with tolerating sin. But to love our fellow Christians is to correct them of their sinful ways, not to leave them in sin; and to love God is to admonish our fellow Christians when they break His commandments, not to look the other way when they are broken.

Biblical principles of separation are almost completely ignored by today's counterfeit Christians. They have fellowship with their heathen and nominal Christian relatives and friends. They send their children to schools and colleges populated with non-Christian students and ungodly teachers. And they fail to separate themselves, as the Scriptures require, from those who profess Christ but continue to live in habitual sin, and from those who profess heretical beliefs. And it is certain that Evangelicals do not in any way consider themselves to be a separate society. They refer to the heathen society in which they live as “our society.” And so they pledge allegiance to it, elect the ungodly leaders of it, enforce the unjust laws of it, and kill other people in wars for it.

Evangelicals have a very shallow form of fellowship. Most of them are strangers to the other members of their churches outside of the few hours of congregational assembly. They want to continue to live an individualistic life rather than being part of a close-knit fellowship (as believers were in the biblical Christian churches), so they limit their fellowship to an hour or two of superficial conversation per week. The last thing the Evangelicals want is to be in a church where they would be expected to obey the scriptural commands to “be subject one to another” (1Pet. 5:5), “confess your faults one to another” (James 5:16), “pray one for another” (James 5:16), “bear ye one another's burdens” (Gal. 6:2), “love one another” (John 15:17), “admonish one another” (Rom. 15:14), “exhort one another” (Heb. 3:13), and “teach one another” (Col. 3:16). They would rather have the professional ministry handle most of these things, or ignore these precepts altogether.

In keeping with their dualistic mindset, today's Evangelicals make a division between biblical precepts and secular laws, and they see no evil in being involved in the enacting or enforcing of civil ordinances which add to or subtract from the commandments of God. But it is wrong to punish other men for things that the Scriptures do not define as evil, and wrong to excuse men from being punished for things that the Scriptures do define as evil. Christians should obey every ordinance of man, even those that lack biblical justification, unless such obedience requires the commission of a sinful act. But they cannot be involved in legislating or enforcing anti-scriptural laws, and anti-scriptural forms of punishment, upon others. Evangelicals do not recognize these limitations and they, to a large extent, derive their concepts of law from the corrupt and ever-changing ordinances of the heathen government which rules over them, rather than from the pure and never-changing word of God.

Evangelicals often view sin as something less than a manifestation of evil, and thus they excuse it rather than demand repentance for it. This is largely due to the assimilation of the false teachings of heathen psychology into their beliefs. For instance, it is not unusual to find Evangelicals who believe that the evil of gluttony is merely an “eating disorder,” and that habitual drunkenness is caused by the “disease of alcoholism.” In their eyes, sin does not need to be repented of, it merely requires therapy. But there is no repentance for sin where repentance is not demanded, and without repentance there can be no forgiveness of sin.

Many of today's Evangelicals have mystical beliefs incorporated into their so-called Christianity. It's not uncommon to hear them say “I felt led by the Lord” to do this or even “God told me” to do that, as if they have received some kind of supernatural guidance or revelation as to what actions they should take. But in reality, they are only following their own will and ascribing it to the direction of God. The Lord gives His people wisdom through the knowledge of His Word and the understanding of His Spirit, and He teaches them by putting them into circumstances where their wisdom is exercised. He does not lead His people through feelings or impressions, and all forms of supernatural communication have ceased now that we have the complete revelation of God in the Holy Scriptures.

There is a tendency among Evangelicals to pervert the Holy Scriptures through the production and use of paraphrases and dumped-down, sometimes gender-neutralized, translations. They often refer to the Bible as the word of God but most of them do not understand what this means, and they do not reverence it as if it really is. For this reason, they place a premium on ease of reading rather than accuracy of translation.

Biblical principles of church discipline are almost entirely ignored, and it is an extremely rare event for anyone to be disfellowshipped from an Evangelical congregation. Not only do they tolerate and overlook one another's sins, but they are largely unaware of them due to the fact that they are strangers to one another outside of their few hours of congregational gatherings.

There is a great deal of worldly, anti-scriptural “evangelism” being practiced in Evangelicalism through music, drama, sports, games, etc., but little or no biblical evangelism, which is nothing more or less than preaching the gospel according to scriptural example.

The Christian church has a God-mandated responsibility to provide for those in need among them. But the elderly and indigent among Evangelicals are largely supported by funds involuntarily collected from unbelievers in the form of Social Security, Medicare, etc, and by insurance plans into which Evangelicals pool their money with the heathen. Rarely, if ever, are they supported entirely by their congregations, which often devote much of their money to grandiose building projects and many other biblically-unsupportable ventures.

Evangelicals do not practice the voluntary sharing of possessions as the biblical Christian church did, and some of them even wickedly equate the practice with ungodly government-mandated socialism or communism.

Festival days which have no biblical foundation, are of pagan origin, and are blasphemously labeled as Christian (e.g., X-Mass, Easter, etc.), are wholeheartedly celebrated by today's Evangelicals.

The meetings of today's so-called Evangelical churches bear very little resemblance to the simple meetings of the early Christian churches. Their formal and ritualistic “worship services” are often more like highly choreographed theatrical presentations, conducted in plush, cathedral-like temples, in which the congregants are little more than spectators.

Most, if not all, of today's Evangelical denominations have instituted non-biblical requirements for church officers while also setting aside biblical requirements. For example, most of them insist that pastors have college and/or seminary degrees, but very few require any level of skillfulness in doctrinal exposition.

Many extra-biblical offices, and in many cases entire administrative bureaucracies, have been added by Evangelicals to the two biblical offices of elder and deacon.

The Scriptures forbid the exaltation of men through the use of religious titles, but this is a common practice among today's Evangelicals.

Evangelicals usually have one preeminent man among them who effectively rules the congregation, rather than several men who are of equal rank, as in the biblical Christian churches. Often a hierarchy of authority exists in their assemblies (Senior Pastor, Associate Pastor, etc.), which is against biblical prohibition. And even in congregations which have a plurality of elders, it is usually the case that one of them has greater authority and, in effect, rules over the others. Thus, they follow the example of the dictatorial Diotrephes who is condemned in the Scriptures, rather than the example of the apostolic church.

An anti-biblical clergymen/laymen delineation is maintained among most of the their congregations (though it is not always explicitly stated as such). In the biblical churches, pastors and teachers were local men who were members of the church exercising their particular gifts. But in Evangelicalism, the pastorate consists of a distinct class of men who are usually recruited from outside of the assembly, some of whom make a lifelong career of traveling from congregation to congregation as professional dispensers of religious services.

Those who act as pastors among the Evangelicals, are most often trained in distant seminary schools instead of discipled in the local congregations according to New Testament example.

It is often taught that the practice of giving ten-percent of one's income to the church (tithing), is obligatory upon the adherents of Evangelicalism. Their leaders do not trust the congregants to willingly provide enough money to pay for their salaries and bloated congregational budgets, so they have conveniently imported this Old Testament ordinance into the New Testament church.

In most cases, neither baptism nor the Lord's supper are practiced according to scriptural example among modern Evangelicals

Evangelicals often allow, and sometimes even encourage, their women to forsake wifely and motherly responsibilities, and place their children in day care facilities, in order to pursue careers outside of the home.

The Bible forbids women from wearing mannish clothing and sporting short hair. But both are commonplace among today's Evangelicals.

Scriptural requirements for the physical disciplining of children are often disregarded by Evangelicals.

If Evangelicals attempt to teach anything of the word of God to their children, they often do so through a conduit of pretense, nonsense, and levity (e.g., games, videos, cartoons, coloring books, puppet shows, etc.) They have no reverence for the word of God, and their children certainly won't.

Biblical admonitions to stay out of debt and not lend or borrow with usury (interest), are almost entirely ignored among Evangelicals today, both individually and congregationally.

Evangelicals often profane the Holy Scriptures and the names of God by using them as slogans on bumper stickers and T-shirts, and even inserting them into well-known advertising jingles.

The use of idolatrous icons and symbols (e.g., crosses, representations of “angels,” pictures of “Jesus”, etc.) is widespread among Evangelicals, and such things are often found on their web sites, upon their printed material, and in their meeting places .

Modesty in dress is an alien principle to modern Evangelicals. Many of them think nothing of having their women exhibit themselves in a skimpy bikini bathing suit.

Competitive athletics programs, which teach ungodly principles to children, are wholeheartedly endorsed and practiced by Evangelicals.

A common practice among Evangelicals is that they “Christianize” the filthy, foolish, and otherwise ungodly things of the world so that they might partake in them. In their minds, cleaning up the words a bit and applying a Christian label can sanctify any form of entertainment that the heathen enjoy. (e.g., “Christian” rock music, “Christian” romance novels, "Christian" radio, etc.)

Evangelicals often attribute evil to certain substances and forbid their moderate use in contradiction to the word of God (such as alcoholic beverages and tobacco), while hypocritically allowing the moderate use of other substances (such as the stimulant beverages coffee and tea, as well as sedative, pain-killing, and anti-depressant drugs).

The so-called churches of the Evangelicals are usually incorporated by them as if they are businesses, thereby making the heathen civil government their head. This is done for the sake of receiving a tax break for members of the congregation.

Erroneous references to buildings and locations as if they are holy places (e.g., the church meeting house is “a house of God,” the room where the congregation assembles is “the sanctuary,” and Palestine is “the Holy Land”), is another trait common to modern Evangelicalism. Whether intentional or not, such misapplication of biblical nomenclature serves to promote a superstitious attachment to edifices and parcels of land.

The practice of denominating through the use of a sectarian and/or a congregational name, is a practice which is not found in the Bible, but is universally practiced by today's Evangelical organizations.