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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Why the church is failing Christians.

Shalom and greetings to all.

The church is an institution that always intrigued me and my curiosity on their ways and customs was very interesting.
As I grew up I realized that the many denominations had their different views on interpreting the Bible and the Words of God and Jesus.
While most of them were the same in basics they were different in the way they “held” church.
While in the early school years in boarding school we had to attend the “officially recognized” church and had to dress very prim and proper for the real uptight people. Everything was very pompous and they sang these laborious songs. Handel and Bach was played before the service started.
Back then the Pentecostal movement was known as a sect and was not recognized as a official church.
After High School as I enrolled for my college training for the Correctional Services I dedicated my life to God and started going to the Pentecostal churches.
After 20 years of devout study and research I found that there were many problems in the church that was not in accordance with the Word of God.

Jesus made it very clear what and who the church must be and what He expected from us as the church.
Yet these things were not like that.
So when we see the church today, we find that many have left due to the fact that they have seen en heard what happened in the church and that this did not go well with the spirit and soul.
What are the reasons that people will leave the church and not the faith and believe in Christ?
The church lost their way when the pastor became the only authority in the church and in some cases the town.
When the pastor was against you everybody was against you.
The pastor was always right and if you dare to question him you like question God.
Church became a fashion show and your dress will be the chat of the week if you wore it last Sunday as well.
The pastor was very political and was very politically correct.
Here we experienced that the church would say that apartheid was biblical and they would preach it then all of the sudden after 1994 apartheid was a sin and they could proof it from the Bible.
So how exactly did they teach and preach and what is the truth now?

The church became a business and money was of the utmost importance to the survival of the church.
The pastor had an image to maintain and the nice house and nice car was it.
Being a pastor became a job not a passion or a calling from God.

The church swept out the Ten Commandments and replaced them with the grace of God.
We are not under the law but under grace.
The Sabbath day was changed to Sunday and they preach that and claimed that Jesus rose on the Sunday and so we have to have church on the Sunday.
Of Course there is no Biblical proof or truth on that matter.
December 25th became a Holy Christian day and also a time to make money and plenty of it.
So then Jesus and god was up for sale and is still today a commodity.

The Holy Feasts of God was moved away as Jewish holy days and therefore not applicable anymore.
Pagan festivals was put in place like Easter and Christmas and Lent, ect.

And so the list can go on.
What is important is that many people realized that the church is wrong and that they have gone way of the road when it comes to being Christian or a true child of God.
With this knowledge many people started their own home cell churches and preferred to worship and study in this manner.
A lot of people got hurt in the church because of vain “Christians”.
The I am better than thou art type.

What got to me the most was the fact that a pastor first checked his list of people who pay their tithes and then they will get a home visit from him.
You pay your tithes and we will come and pray for you.
You pay your tithes and the church will feed you somewhat.
I got the feeling that now we have to be like the Catholics and buy our salvation with money and penance.
This did not work for me and is not Biblical at all.

So now today we have Islamic pastors in the church of Christ.
We have gay pastors in the church.
We have lesbian pastors in the church.
We have adulterous pastors.
We even have a few wizards and witches in the church.
So let’s make room for it all and have a happy fellowship in the Lord.

Is this what Christ had in mind when He said to Peter to build the church?
I think not.

So the people of Christ is not happy and they stay and they fight the evil and eventually are forced out by the congregation and the pastor declares you a heretic. Other realize that they will not be able to help to bring change and leave.
There is almost always bad vibes after that and the “Christians” now don’t know you anymore.
This is not Christ-like either.

So now we have the “heretics” forming home churches and they are blessed and they keep the Sabbath Holy.

As a God fearing Christian I cannot join in the unholy alliance that is talking place in the church with Islam and other religions.
Many people feel the same and they leave the church.
Just recently I posted an article about the church of Rick Joyner with the Koran reading and the taking of hands with Islam.
Friends we do not serve the same god as the Muslims.
The Hindu god is not God Almighty.
The true one God Of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob the God of Israel and Father of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour is whom we worship and pray to.

Christians do not want to share God with pagan rituals and pagan gods it is not biblical.
Exodus 20:3 says thou shalt have no other gods before me
Exo 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them:
for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Jeremiah 25:6 And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them,
and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.
God is jealous and we cannot have all these other man made gods and rituals in his presence.

From the last chapters of the Gospel to the end of Revelation we read and have a clear manual of what and who the church is and must be.
Yet the truth is forsaken in the ways of the World.
We have a “cool” pastor and he is doing “cool” things in church and that was a “cool” service.
Church is not suppose to be “cool”.
Church is suppose to be the worship of God the spreading of the true Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Church is about reprimanding , teaching informing bring the word of God to the church.
It is not suppose to be “cool”.
God is not some commodity like superman or spiderman to be cool.
God is holy and Almighty and we must respect him for it.
We must honour God who he is and not as the “cool old man”.

The church lost it because they became the ones to give God the orders and God must obey.
Give me this and I will do that. It does not work that way.
God is HOLY, ALMIGHTY, THE BREATH OF LIVE, THE ORIGEN OF LIVE.

This is why people leave the church and that is why the church have failed the Christian of today.
I believe and i have said it many times before that the persecution of the church will come from the apostate church.
The church will be persecuted like the Catholics did when the Protestants broke away from them.
The apostate church will be the church of the New World Order and if you are not part of it you will suffer for it greatly.
So friends if you are not in Christ and not in His Word you will not make it to the end.

It is important to take on the legacy of the apostles and carry the true Gospel and be the true Church and be not part of the sins of Babylon.
Come out of Babylon now!

Isa_1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Rev_3:18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

In Yeshua
Harry

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