An ever growing trend among the church is slowly killing our message to the world.
Popularity, fun, love, acceptance, teaching, blessing, forgiveness, peace, all these things sound great. What can be wrong with them you may ask?
I tell you, without Messiah, without G-d they mean nothing. If you have a building of worship, a church building, and your main goal is to entertain, to get a bigger congregation, to show love and acceptance, to spread peace among the world, then you are in the wrong.
All these things are lies without G-d. True love and true peace can only be found through Messiah. We are to preach Messiah crucified and encourage each other in Yeshua. Forget not the center of our faith, for these things are destructive without the Truth that is YHVH.
Do not be deceived brothers and sisters.
Seek G-d and keep your eyes focused upon Him.
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Amen... that reminded me of this:
“The Wesleys had a large-and-small gospel. They had no difficulty connecting Christ’s universal triumph with the particular events of Good Friday and Easter, and no difficulty connecting the redemption of the world with the redemption and transformation of individuals. And while the reformation of society didn’t make it into a famous Wesley hymn, it was a crucial part of the evangelical revival that blossomed from their ministry.
"God has a small-and-large gospel. We must always let the largeness be God’s. His grand story makes our individual stories bigger as they take on meaning in his kingdom. Our efforts at evangelization must always build his kingdom, not ours. Our plans for church growth must always follow his yeastly patterns of growth, not the driven growth of corporate-style goal setting. God’s mission must always enlarge our vision, but we must content to be part of the small things he is always doing.”
(“A Perfect Pearl,” by David Neff, December '08)
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