Matthew 6:24 tells us this: “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon (world/money).” In some cases, churches have been so caught up in their traditions that they have rendered the Word of God powerless as it tells us in Mark 7:13, “Making the Word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.” If the pure word of God is not the basis for a church’s teachings, the people have no way to identify false teachings and errors.
Still others think they can follow Jesus without obeying the instruction manual (the Bible... B basic, I instructions, B before, L leaving, E earth). ...