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Why The Institutional Church is NOT Working!

Yes, you heard me right.  The organized church as most people know it just does not work.  Oh, I’m not saying there’s not a lot of good done, but let’s be real, there are many great clubs and organizations that do a lot of good.  And let’s also be real in admitting that the organized church as most know it is responsible for an enormous amount of division in the human race.

Matt 12:25  Since Jesus knew what they were thinking, he said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is ruined. And every city or household divided against itself will not last.

Christ makes it abundantly clear that no kingdom, no city, no household can have any lasting effect if it is divided, and the organized church as most know it is as divided as it gets.  The organized church preaches peace to the world and yet it knows no such peace.  The organized church is full of judgement, condemnation, and guilt all based on what each particular church organization deems important.  The reason Christ came was to redeem man from the bondage of religion.  Man’s thirst to understand good and evil (from the garden) led him into the thinking that he needed to do something to be OK with God.  Sin is not our problem.  As long as we think we must obey some law to be acceptable to God we will continue to divide into ruin. Gal 4:4-6  4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. 6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Who does Paul say sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts?  God did!  And just who has the right to call out “Abba, Father?”  Every single human being that Christ died for, and that is EVERYBODY.

Eph 4:6 One God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all.

He is THE FATHER OF ALL, He is OVER ALL, He is THROUGH ALL, And He is IN ALL!!!!!!!!In the early church even some of the apostles were beginning to cause division by their need to keep religion alive, and Peter had to be shown in a dream that it was wrong for anyone to call unclean that which God has cleansed.Acts 10:15 Again a voice came to him a second time, “What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy.”What God HAS cleansed—this statement is talking about a fact of reality that took place on the cross when Jesus said he would draw all men unto himself.  He broke down the dividing wall of hostility, and unfortunately man keeps trying to put it back up.  Why can’t we admit to the overwelming evidence that the church as most people know it is FULL of division?  Until we realize our ONENESS is not something that happens when we do something, but it is an established reality because of what Christ did, we will continue to create more division among the human race.  I for one will not take part in that division.  I accept fully the finished work of the cross, knowing that the playing field has been leveled.  Any righteousness we have is HIS.  Any good thing we do is because of HIM.  Any peace we enjoy is a result of HIS sacrifice.  To HIM belongs all the Glory.  Amen