Because you can find God again at home without a preacher, choir, or offering plate.
Each year, one million Christians leave the traditional institutions called "church".
And even YOU may have found yourself sitting on a church pew wondering "WHAT am I doing here?"
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ If you read something here you disagree with, pray for us, God is not finished with us, and we welcome correction from the scripture.
7-23-08 "My Walk Through The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death"
Injury, leaving my body, and how the Lord ministered to me in the hospital. June '08, with pics. A year later and not once a return visit to a doctor after leaving the hospital in a wheelchair. Praise the Lord I am walking, running, lifting weights, and working with no handicap.
ALL the original disciples, all the apostle's and all who heard them, were called "to come out from among them", i.e., the religious establishment and institutions of Israel. ALL of Christ's disciples left the religious traditions and institutions of their day to follow Jesus Christ. The establishment church then persecuted them.
"The Ministry" is not the Bible-College certified, hired and titled pastor-administrator position.
The system conforms church leaders to the religious traditions of men, not scripture.
Many find a "church" but fail to find God in the hopelessly fragmented, sectarian, competitive, church world.
Boxed and packaged church "services" are served behind walls and in comfortable pews.
Corrupted by the very leaders who claim to represent God's authority they are corraled behind walls and so is the gospel.
the modern concept of church itself has become an idol men serve, defend, and sacrifice to.
Most churches are "married" to the government by 501c3 tax exempt agreement.
The Clergy:What is the fruit of the institutionalized, titled and frocked clergy-dominated church?
Homogenized Christians are conditioned to follow their pastor(s) and priests, rather than God.
Most Christians never find their calling and place in God's Kingdom in the church world. Is it any wonder most Christians never mature into the fruit-bearing modeled for us in scripture?
The majority of Christians rarely quote or speak God's Word.
A lukewarm church routine and hired pastor's sermonization replace study and listening to the voice of the Lord.
No signs, no faith, no trust in God's Word are the signs that follow the modern church.
"Church" has become a safe-haven for demons who have little fear of being exposed or cast out.
Pastors rule the roost contrary to any verse giving them sole-authority in an assembly.
Step back and look at what "church" has become: www.youtube.com/watch
See this shocking list of common un-Biblical practices passed off as Christian. Decision for Christ Salvation? Ask Jesus into your heart? Truth or lie? 7 minutes.
On this site you will find overwhelming evidence from scripture how "church" departed from "The Faith once delivered to the saints".
And a prophetic Word we received Jan. 2008: "Because my people have not used my blessings of abundance to meet the needs of their brethren, they will learn to meet the needs of others from the little they have left.
When they had much, they gave little,
and that into the hands of those who decieved them.
Now I will fill their world and their eyes with those in need
and thus will they be purified of their greed."
Is Babylon fallen? Is the CHURCH FALLEN? Is the CHURCH the great tree grown from the mustard seed in which dwell the fowls of the air as Jesus said? Is the church become great? Have we not Christian celebrities, the GREAT men even the giants of Christianity? Are not so many considered GREAT in their kingdoms? Are they not idols whose great swelling words move MULTITUDES of God's people? Does My Word even say "Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets."?
Does not the scripture say in the latter days there would be a GREAT APOSTASY and that Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first?, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Yes, even the fallen Adamic man living inside the heart of the temple of which ye are?
And this because My people have DEPARTED from My Word. Is not Babylon the church a spiritual place where spiritual beings called devils, foul spirits, and UNCLEAN FOWLS that disguise themselves as the Holy Spirit abide?
But the pure word of my mouth has been polluted like the very waters of the land where you live. Is not this a parable before your very eyes? I tell you Babylon the Great is fallen, fallen not for a time removed in the future, it is NOW.
Is the Bride to RULE over her husband? Does the bride teach the bridegroom? Does the bride have authority over Christ? Yet the church has usurped authority over Gods' people contrary to My Word.heard in prayer Dec 06.
This is exactly what Ezekiel and many other prophets wrote about. Ezekiel 34 is a clear prophecy about the shepherds and leaders of Apostate modern Christianity. You don't have to look very hard to find them. Here is another: Isa. 4:1
And in that dayseven women(the 7 representive churches in Revelation ch 2,3) shall take hold of one man, (calling on Jesus) saying, We will eat our own bread, ( we will follow our own faith & doctrine) and wear our own apparel: (putting on false outward righteousness)
only let us be called by thy name, (Christian in name but not disciples)
to take away our reproach. (they want sins forgiven but do not obey the covenant)
"Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside the gate. Let us therefore go forth unto him without (outside) the camp, bearing his reproach. For we have not here an abiding city, but we seek after the city which is to come." -Hebrews 13:12-14
If the apostles Paul, Peter, James, and John never taught or requested tithing, what scripture gives any church or pastor the authority to take tithes from the people?
You will read, re-read, and refer to this inspired book for encouragement and help. David opens the understanding of many scriptures that we may obtain the blessings and promises of scripture.