Skip to main content

The Purpose of Church

 


One of my greatest complaints of churches is that our Lord is treated as a memory, the whole service is like funeral. While yes aspects of that fit on Communion, “remember his death until He comes,” (1 Corinthians 11:26), Jesus is risen, “He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead..” (Matthew 28:6); He is alive and living, not still dead. I respect aspects of the liturgy, the Apostle’s Creed said by all congregants and the Communion every Sunday as it should be. That said, if a church service does not invite the living Spirit of God to manifest and visit, if Jesus is not permitted to speak, nor The Holy Spirit allowed to move, our Abba Father to direct, then what is the point? Why even meet if we are going to ignore God The Trinity, numb ourselves to his presence and silence His voice? The whole purpose of church is to commune with The Lord, to encounter and be intimate with our Great God! And yet many are content to just recite prayers over and over (Matthew 6:7), to promote man-made traditions (Mark 7:13), and keep God jailed in text format, intellect, and exegesis. This makes people comfortable, leaving Christ as a platitude rather than letting Him visit with the multitude. In essence the church has dead religion, they are content with Corpus Christi, but the Risen Lord is shut out from speaking, and visiting. 


If we want to continue in dead religion, “I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. Wake up! Strengthen what little remains, for even what is left is almost dead. I find that your actions do not meet the requirements of my God,” (Revelation 3:1-2), we shall lose all relevancy in The Kingdom & World. The world is not impressed with ritual and tradition, they are impressed with Jesus Christ, The Living Lord. When He shows up, His presence is felt, even skeptics say “what was that?!” A God encounter changes everything, but our mega churches and liturgy labyrinths, our masters of exegesis and ceremony is not winning souls, it is encountering Jesus, as Nicodemus did; it is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all flesh (Acts 2:17) as was promised! It means to let God in and let Him be The True Head of His Church and speak, move, touch, cleanse, heal, deliver, and forgive His people in person, in a personal way. 


The Church is becoming a mausoleum. It is a graveyard where once great power and the presence of God moved. We have allowed good things to obscure God, and become content with a church that drowns out The Lord’s voice with sermons, bands,  noise, and cleaver slogans. We are becoming bankrupt, The Church has lost its first love, “But I have this complaint against you. You don’t love me or each other as you did at first! Look how far you have fallen! Turn back to me and do the works you did at first. If you don’t repent, I will come and remove your lampstand from its place among the churches,” (Revelation 2:4-5). The world is aching because it once felt God in us and moving around our congregations, and now we seem no different than all the dead religions. We have a chance to reform, to let God be God in our midst, but it means sacrifice, the sacrifice of ego, the sacrifice of enjoying the silence of God so we can justify whatever wind of doctrine (Ephesians 4:14), and sacrifice feeling content like the delusional cults (Roman Catholic Church included) that our Sunday visit will placate and make penance to God like a therapy session or coffee meet. God is suppose to be our life! Jesus is The Life (John 14:6), He is suppose to be our oxygen, and instead of breathing The Air of Almighty we buy man made tanks of oxygen. 


Unless The Holy Trinity is our aim on Sundays, to hang with Them and let our God be with us, there is no point to church. The Dones are right if God is not welcome to speak, move, and do anything at services. There is no reason to have church without God being actively engaged with us because its Jesus’ Church! If He is not welcome to visit, and be experienced in all the wonderful ways  as our Bridegroom, then the church is white washed tombs, “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.” (Matthew 23:27). Amen. 


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Israel’s Conquest of Canaan: The Nephilim and Giants

  Christianity Today asserts that the conquest of Canaan can be a “stumbling block” for believers. This probably is because of a foolish idea of comparing it to a modern conquest happening in our world. The truth is that God had Israel conquer Canaan because it was ruled by evil giants, “We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.” (Numbers 13:33). These are Anakim or Nephilim, the children of angels and human women, “When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God (angels) saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Then the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. The...
Post a Comment
Read more

Dispensationalism

John Nelson Darby (1800-1882) was a man who did two things, he took 70th week of the Book of Daniel and stretched out to the End Times, and he was the father of  Dispensationalism , a belief system that God dispenses different peoples with separate blessings and covenants. According to Darb'ys doctrine of Dispensationalism, God dispenses different covenants. There are total of seven dispensations that divide the history of man: I. Dispensation of Innocence (prior to the Fall, "Do not east of the Fruit of Good and Eve, Eden), II. Dispensation of Conscience ( You must assuage guilt and sin with blood sacrifices.) III. Dispensation of Human Government (Multiply and Subdue the world, example the Tower of Babel Gen 11:1-9, and Genesis 1:28). IV. Dispensation of the Promise (Dwell in Canaan, Jerusalem) V. Dispensation of the Law ("Obey the Law of Moses and the Prophets"). VI. Dispensation of Grace (The Church, Jesus Christ has come...
Post a Comment
Read more

Jesus’ Name in Aramaic

There has been a trend to render Jesus’ name Hebrew, יֵשׁוּעַ , Yeshua. The problem is neither Christ nor his apostles, nor the Jews in 30-33 A.D. spoke Hebrew, they spoke Aramaic. A ramaic is the oldest language on earth and was the language Jesus spoke. In fact, the oldest Old Testament is the Septuagint a Greco translation around 132 B.C.E. (165 Years Before Christ)that was translated from Aramaic. The Masoretic Text, The Hebrew Old Testament most Bibles use, dates from 7th to 10th Century A.D. (Medieval Times).  This translation does not cross reference with the words of Christ in the New Testament which are Aramaic and Koine Greek.  If the Aramaic was what Jesus spoke, then by what name would have been called? Jesus’ name in Aramaic is Isho or Eesho, spelled ܝܫܘܥ . That is the name of our Lord in Aramaic! He would have heard his name in this dialect, “Hail Isho or Eesho!” as well as the Greek, Ἰ ησο ῦ ς , Iesous.  Aramaic is disappearing, only a few peop...
Post a Comment
Read more