More and more Christians feel like strangers in their own church. They don't understand the deterioration that has taken place within it in recent years, even though it was once considered to have a solid biblical foundation.
Indeed, the dangers that undermine the life of the Church do not come solely from external enemies, but especially from those within. Jesus himself warned us very clearly about the spiritual condition in which he would find the Church upon his return: “When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?” (Luke 18:8).
We are living in exceptionally grave times, not only in the world, but also in the Church. Virulent attacks against the very foundations of the Christian faith, particularly the message of the cross, are increasingly evident in the pronouncements of "preachers" who seek to reinvent the Church. This does not concern merely the form of the message, as they claim and would have us believe. It is the substance, the foundation, and its content that are being called into question.
According to them, the New Testament is no longer the model for the biblical message of salvation for all people. “It is arrogant,” they assert, “to believe that anyone can know the truth, since truth is subjectively determined by the culture in which we live, and not by Scripture. Therefore, everyone should find their own path to God and refuse to become a ‘bibliophile.’” They believe it is necessary to depart from traditional biblical teaching to reinvent the earthly mission of the Church. What presumption and what blindness! The many current deviations from the true meaning of the sacrifice of the cross are perilous. They are so many traps to be detected before the consequences for salvation become irreversible. It is therefore imperative to analyze them in the first chapters of this book (Titus 1:9).
In these times of compromise and great spiritual confusion, it is also urgent to return to the message of the Cross to rediscover and proclaim the essential and eternal truths of the great Salvation we have in Jesus Christ, our glorious Redeemer!
The cross of Christ is the divine spotlight that illuminates the darkness of this world.