Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2025
Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase Are you an active churchgoer? An ordained church leader? A passionate layperson who wants to see churches remain pure and vibrant?
If you fit any of these areas, you should buy Tom Essary’s Snakes in the Sanctuary, read it, and recommend it to others ASAP!
Most groups or organizations, sadly, are more likely to be destroyed from within rather than by any outside influence. Though we know that Christ and His followers end up winning the great spiritual war, we should want Satan to win as few battles as possible along the way. Far too often, members with “all-about-me” agendas and leaders who misguide their flocks by misinterpreting Scripture and doctrine to promote their personal “vision” have confused and misled members as to what God’s ideas really are for us. Such actions tend to disillusion people, make them cynical about churches, and often help congregations shrink in size and influence.
Now, Essary says, more than ever, discerning Christians need to work lovingly to nip this Christian “rot” in the bud by speaking the truth in love, yet working to rid churches of any such source of misguided infection.
In the book, Essary, who has counseled numerous pastors and church members in his professional practice, clearly points out many of the ways, both subtle and blatant, that Satan uses to weaken God’s work in God’s houses, where His Spirit should reign victorious.
They’re evil methods that Essary thinks all believers must be equipped to identify, and with God’s help, shake off like a messed-up picture on an Etch-a-Sketch.
Snakes in the Sanctuary is an inspired guidebook that you and your fellow Christians should read and commit to your heart as part of your holy action plan to keep the devil out of your house.
If “one man plus God is a majority,” Tom Essary thinks that millions, armed with God and His wisdom, can make a super-majority such that “the gates of Hell cannot overcome it.”
You can be a part of that with God’s guidance and Essary’s insight.