What should the Church be?
It should be a hospital where the hurting, hopeless and sin-infected patients of the world go to receive top-notch care, through truth-ful methods and love saturated action.
It should be a place where the ‘blood and guts’ of a person’s heart and life are laid bare as the Great Physician and His Spirit-filled staff with training inject His salvation, healing, deliverance and empowerment to the spiritually dead. A place where His staff can get their hands dirty and bring about transformation.
It is a place where honesty and His eternal methods of destroying sin are practiced. It is a place where the prognosis is death, unless you follow the prescriptive methods and procedures of the Great Physician.
It is where the dead come alive. It is where a person finds the “Antidote” (Jesus) for their cancerous diagnosis called sin. It is where the Great Physician has equipped and released His spiritual gifts into people to release His Kingdom of everlasting healing into people. It is a place where the patients become the providers and caretakers for the incoming.
The Church should be a covenanting ‘family’ where they meet as much as they can to study, sharpen and do ministry together as they share life together. A place where people meet in one building or take it out to the world. A place where 24/7 worship occurs and is constantly going out and bringing in. A place where we know each other, and each other’s talents and spiritual gifts. These gifts are the tools the Great Physician has ordained to be used in His prescriptive and ordered redemptive plan for humanity.
But what has the Church really become?
It has become a place where man’s ways and desires negate the Great Physicians. A place where the patients want to direct the treatment. A place where truth of their diagnosis is irrelevant and is a ‘downer’. The patients want to be told how great they are and that their health’ is fine even though in their spiritual death they carry the pain of the ‘sin-illness’.
The Church is where we entertain dead people and hope they will give money. A place of where people can go and get a temporary ‘fix’, to feel better about themselves in their dead and decaying state of sinfulness. The church even ‘perfumes’ the corpse of their lives with professional music and pep talks that are saturated in psychology and secular humanism. They Church has bowed to the flesh of humanity and now feeds it rather than the spirit. In fact, Universalism now dominates the pulpits by assuming everyone gets to heaven because there is someone worse than me. Truth is relative and so is God. He can be mutated into whatever you want Him to be. Instead of being the “I AM”, we have turned Him into the “He is” everything I want Him to be and He must bow to my opinion as truth.
The Church has become a place to go, and not a place to Be. A place that has kept Christ s a man rather than glorifying Him and God, Lord and savior. A place where we honor mankind more than God. A place where information and education preempt the strategy of transformation He has set forth. A place where we can experience the Truth, become alive, get healed, delivered and set free from the devil’s infection and hell’s destination.
The Church has become self-directing, self-satisfying and selfish. It refuses to truthfully diagnose people n their dead state. Nor does it talk about sin and its consequences. Nor does it embrace the Truth that we are called to seek first His kingdom and righteousness. Nor does it follow the prescriptive plan of the Lead Physician who has a perfect plan of saving people. He even has a 100% successful method of giving life through CPR: ‘Christ Powered Resurrection’ life.
The Church has become about customs, rituals and self-preservation. What can we do to get more people, which means more money, which means bigger facilities, which means more people which means … Cyclical. The Church has replaced His miraculous Presence with professional atmospheres. A place where we need artificial lights and cloud machines because His Light is not present. A place where we rely upon amplified sound because His amplified voice of conviction, repentance, restoration and exultation has been muffed. A place where the Church has bowed to society and its sinful illnesses, rather than to God and His truth and righteousness. A place where we sing worship songs that are clogged by non-worshipping hearts and lifestyles throughout the rest of the week.
Rather than the Church being a hospital for the dying and releasing life to the dead, the Church has become the tomb of religion. A place where people can go and be coddled in their sin and shallowness. A place of fleshliness rather than holiness. A place of indignation rather than a place of subligation to the Lord. A place of continuation of your current life rather than restoration and transformation into a new life in Christ. A place where sin has been removed because it causes conviction which later mutates into feeling condemned when the conviction is not acted upon. Christ has called us to be a new creation shedding off our old habits, desires and fleshliness. We were commanded to put on Christ’s nature which is led by the Holy Spirit.
Find a church where the Truth is preached and the message is uncomfortable and convicting for your flesh. Then BE the Church. Find one that knows their God and His ways, and is convicted to seek Him and His ways. Find one that is multi-generational and provides Biblical discipleship on a daily basis. Find one that walks in conviction and lives in the miraculous power of the Holy Spirit. Find one that through the Truth releases the Fruit of the Spirit in the ministering of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. Life and time is too short to be playing church or being religious. Christ is returning for a Church that seeks Him with all of their substance and is in submission to His will. A people who’s schedule revolves around Him, and not who will fit Him in if nothing better comes along.
Each of us has a choice every day on whom to serve:
1. Ourselves, and our flesh
2. God, and His kingdom and righteousness
Whom do you serve? God already knows! Your schedule and checkbook may tell you too. Seek Him and others walking in His ways.
Have a blest day in His Presence! And we hope to see you at Church!
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