Jesus died for the church. But what is that thing called a church? It has become multiple “religions” and not what God wanted- my assessment. But we need not throw the baby out with the bath water. Karl Deutsch said, “The single greatest power we possess is the power to change! And?
Deutsch went on to give this warning, “The most reckless thing we can do in the future is to go on exactly as we have in the past.” Hello people!
The world has changed and continues to change!
We no longer live in a closed society. The open society is forcing itself on us and sceaming for us to change. Okay we get it, but HOW do we change? Do we go to our homes and start a home church? Do we join a local mega church? What?
Do what God, and I’m talking real God, tells you to do: not agreeing with your egoic desires and saying that’s a “thus saith the Lord”.
Of this I am sure, God is a God of covenant and He’s looking for a “group of people” who will come together for decades, not a few years, to BE His church. Are you in such a group? Does it matter the wineskin as much as it does the wine?
We can BE ALL He’s called us to be as long as we group our grapes with the right grapes. Are you a Merlot, Cabernet, Chardonnay, or a blend?
EVERYONE IS ON A PATH…….So do we meet in the institutionalized setting or do we meet in a home? There is no right or wrong…….well, sorta…….If there is LIFE in that meeting place for you, you are in the right place. If there is no life (for you), get the hell out of there….People think they are in a place because of the denomination or the doctrine. Wrong! The tree of the knowledge of good and evil is a picture of Isa 4…….”7 women (denominations) take hold of one man (Jesus) and say, ‘Let us wear our own apparel (denomination) and eat our own bread (doctrine); only let us be called by thy name (Jesus),’” That’s what happens every Sunday morning across this land. Read on in Isa 4, and you will see…..they missed it……..And what might be life for one person may not be life for the next. IF YOU ARE ATTENDING A PLACE PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF THE LABEL OR ITS DOGMA………….IT’S OK…….YOU’RE JUST IMMATURE…..If you have a relationship with the Lord, the Day will come when you will say, there’s no life in this place. You will soon see, there’s more!!!!!!! Noone is in the wrong place. EVERYONE IS ON A PATH.
Some more seriously than others.