Modern American Churches Compared to the Original Bible: Why There Is No Comparison

Contrasting the Ministry of Christ With Modern Christianity

Minister Paul J Bern
9 min readMar 7, 2021

by Rev. Paul J. Bern

Part of the meaning of the Social Gospel is the examination of the Bible in its original context without all the trappings and fallacies of organized religion. For this week’s message, I want to talk and write about when Jesus fed the crowd of 5,000, but I’m going to be expounding on this in a way you may have not seen or heard before. How come, you ask? It’s because most churches are teaching this incorrectly. Why is that? Because that’s what our seminaries are teaching their graduates. Your pastor, minister, bishop or priest is teaching it wrong because they were taught this way. And yet if the majority of Christians, and especially the church leaders, would take the time to read this using at least two different translations of the Bible, they would see the true meaning for themselves. And now, so help me God, I will explain this miracle of Christ’s to the very best of my ability.

First, we need to understand the context of this story. So after careful consideration I will be using the gospel of the apostle Luke as a backdrop for this explanation and because this is near where we’re at during the weekly Biblical study series. So…

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Minister Paul J Bern

Rev. Paul J. Bern is a Web pastor and blogger on The Social Gospel Blog on Medium and Substack. Longtime Atlanta Ga. resident; stroke survivor; piano player