Have you ever felt frustrated with the Christian world today? Obviously the church today isn’t what God intended and in America, the church has become a big corporation more than anything.
On the other hand, no matter what church or Christian group you belong to, it seems we just can’t accept each other as we are. We always have groups that say one thing and then along comes someone else who says something completely different. Then one group gets mad and argues their point and it just seems fruitless to continue debating one another. One groups says this is the way to do it, the other says no, your way is wrong but our way is the way to do it.
I’m at a point where I’m pretty well frustrated with Christianity as a whole and just ready to say forget it. God loves me. There is nothing I have to do or stop doing to receive God’s love. I am saved through faith in Jesus Christ and I have the Holy Spirit living within me. I don’t have to listen to this group or that group, this speaker or that preacher. God can guide me in the way He wants me to go and I no longer have to worry about my reputation or what others think. Does anyone else feel this way too?
I really think if we accept God’s love for us the way we are, follow Him and be willing to do what He wants us to do, then listen to the guiding of the Holy Spirit within us, we will be OK no matter what others say. We no longer have to be tossed to and fro by listening to all the different voices in Christianity today. We just need to listen and trust God and enjoy the fellowship we have with Him through Christ.
I feel the same way. You expressed my thoughts completely. How simple it can be when we don’t try to fix it. It’s not broken. It’s freedom in Christ. Love this posting.
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If our enemy is against one thing the most it is or freedom we have as we abide IN Christ. Systems of government are constantly chipping away at our natural freedom and systems of religion are trying to take away our spiritual freedom.
But what does the Scripture say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman. It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
(Galatians 4:30 – 5:1 NIV)
It is interesting the the root meaning of “religion” means to re-bind. Through faith in Christ we are set free, but most of us are born into a house of slavery called “church” and that freedom is short lived. There are tares among the wheat that seek to bind us up with themselves through rules and regulations. I believe that Jesus was referring to this very thing when he said, “Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather you together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.” (Matthew 13:30 KJ2000). Religions are the binding and bundling process of men, but Jesus is gathering us unto Himself (no binding) as His bride who dwells in HIS love and freedom.
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Good words Michael. Thanks.
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