Pastor Loran Livingston Clears Up Internet Lies

A Pastor’s Urgent Warning About Faith, Family, and the Influences Entering the Home

The pastor began by addressing something he clearly considered necessary in an age of rapidly spreading online content: misinformation bearing his name.

He warned that material circulating across YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and other corners of the internet had not necessarily been authorized by his ministry.

He directed listeners to the ministry’s official website, centralnc. org, as the definitive source for authorized material.

Anything presented elsewhere, he cautioned, should not automatically be assumed to represent his beliefs.

The pastor specifically rejected claims that he had declared there would be no rapture or that he opposed the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Those statements, he insisted, were not his words.

The warning carried a larger message about the dangers of clickbait: a familiar face can be placed beside an outrageous statement, creating an impression that survives long after the truth becomes difficult to find.

But the pastor’s central concern quickly moved away from social media and toward something much closer to home.

A coming prayer meeting was presented in strikingly simple terms.

Attendees would need a “ticket,” but the ticket was not money, an invitation, or a phone.

It was a Bible.

The pastor emphasized that the Bible meant an actual book with pages and ink, rather than a phone or devotional substitute.

He even pointed out that an inexpensive Bible could be purchased at Walmart, making the requirement less about financial sacrifice and more about intentionally carrying Scripture into worship.

The moment became a broader call to return to a physical, tangible relationship with the Bible.

From there, the sermon took a darker turn.

The pastor argued that many families have effectively opened their homes to destructive influences.

In his framing, evil does not always need to break through a locked door.

Sometimes the door is simply left open.

Television became one example.

He recalled visiting sick members of the church and discovering that television news was so loud in their homes that meaningful conversation—and even prayer—became difficult.

One home had Fox News playing loudly; another had CNN.

For the pastor, the issue was not merely which network was being watched.

The deeper concern was allowing outside voices and opinions to dominate the atmosphere of the home.

His warning was that constant exposure to worldly commentary could gradually shape a person’s thinking without that person recognizing what was happening.

The internet represented an even greater concern.

The pastor acknowledged that the internet contains valuable information and useful resources.

Yet he stressed that it also contains material he described as filthy, deceptive, perverted, and demonic.

His strongest warning was directed toward parents who give children smartphones or other internet-connected devices without filters or meaningful supervision.

He compared such unrestricted access to handing a child a rattlesnake.

Trust, he argued, cannot replace parental responsibility.

Children are not immune to temptation, and parents are not fundamentally different from other parents simply because they believe their own children can be trusted.

Monitoring and guidance, in his view, are part of the responsibility of raising them.

The pastor then drew a powerful comparison between physical skills and spiritual preparation.

Parents routinely teach children how to throw a ball, swing a bat, catch, kick, and participate successfully in sports.

Time is spent demonstrating techniques and correcting mistakes.

Yet the pastor questioned whether those same parents teach their children what to do when life itself throws something unexpected at them.

His answer was unmistakably spiritual.

Children, he argued, should learn to get on their knees, open the Word of God, and seek God when life becomes painful or unfair.

Anger, profanity, destruction, and retaliation should not become their default responses.

Instead, they should know where to turn when circumstances become overwhelming.

That lesson, he suggested, matters more than athletic ability.

The sermon then addressed another subtle danger: priorities.

The pastor praised the church’s youth camps as spiritually meaningful experiences filled with worship, teaching, guidance, and opportunities for young people to develop friendships.

Yet he said parents sometimes hesitate to send their children because church camp happens during the same week as soccer camp, tennis camp, or another activity.

To him, the choice communicates a message even when parents never say it aloud.

If church is repeatedly sacrificed for worldly opportunities, children may conclude that spiritual life is secondary.

The world’s recognition, activities, achievements, and approval can begin to appear more valuable than faith.

That, the pastor warned, is another way the front door gets opened.

The message ultimately challenged the modern tendency to expect church to provide everything in an effortless, instantly accessible format.

The pastor suggested that believers have become too comfortable being passive—simply attending services and allowing someone else to do all the spiritual work.

The Bible, prayer, discipline, parental guidance, and personal responsibility cannot be outsourced.

His use of the biblical account concerning the coming Babylonian invasion reinforced the warning.

The passage describes possessions being carried away and sons being taken because an enemy had been allowed to see what was inside.

The pastor applied that image to contemporary families, asking how Scripture could be made real for people who had already opened their own doors.

His answer was unsettling: spiritual vulnerability can begin with ordinary choices.

A television running constantly.

An unfiltered phone placed in a child’s hands.

A culture’s approval becoming more important than God’s approval.

A youth camp repeatedly pushed aside.

A Bible left unopened.

None of these moments necessarily looks catastrophic by itself.

Together, however, the pastor portrayed them as openings.

The sermon therefore became more than a warning about technology or entertainment.

It was a challenge to examine what occupies the home, what shapes children, and what values families demonstrate through their everyday decisions.

The most uncomfortable question was not whether danger exists outside the house.

It was whether the family has already opened the door.