The church has borrowed so heavily from secular philosophy, personality science, corporate management theory, and therapy culture that it can be difficult to distinguish from a well-funded community center. This article examines the most prominent intrusions and calls the church back to the sufficiency of Paul's epistles.

Claiming promises God never made to the Body of Christ is feigned faith — pretense rather than genuine trust in the rightly divided word. This article shows what real faith looks like under grace and why applying Israel's conditional promises to yourself misrepresents God and produces vain jangling.