Before Pastor Greg Laurie became a Christian, he was told that drugs would open his mind and make him more aware of himself. Turns out, this was true. Drugs made him more aware of how empty he was inside. In his book Signs of the Times: What the Bible Says About the Rapture, Anti-Christ, Armageddon, Heaven and Hell (Charisma House, 2018), Laurie writes on angels, demons, Armageddon, the Antichrist and end-times theology to point to one truth on which all Christians can agree: We need Jesus more than anything else in this world. With Jesus’ Second Coming on the horizon, Laurie exhorts readers to seek the meaning of life in Jesus.
Not prosperity, not relationships, not drugs—for Christians who have idolized these things, Laurie calls them to get right with God before it’s too late. Laurie urges readers to deal with sin in their lives. “The Bible doesn’t teach that the answer is within. The Bible teaches that the problem is within. It’s our heart,” Laurie writes in his article ‘The Day I Found Meaning in Life.’ He challenges readers to stop rationalizing and to start addressing the secret sin in their lives. This can mean confessing your sins, both to God and to a fellow believer. More importantly, it means to uproot the sin before it spreads and disrupts your relationship with God. CONTINUE
