Christ's Bride -- that's us Christians -- are responsible for this dumpster fire of a culture incinerating around us. Plain and simple. The students have taken over the classroom that Christ gave and assigned, to us, and we -- again, the Church, the Teacher -- have decided as-of-late to take-up cigarette smoking in order to have a few "well deserved" breaks in a veiled attempt to avoid the difficult work of discipling the students. We figured the class had been cruising along and doing so well for the last several centuries we could "let up" a bit and relax. Negatory. Culture is always the external manifestation of its dominant religion, and ladies and gentleman, what you're seeing ain't Christian.
So, we're needing to roll-up the shirt sleeves and get back to our job that the King kindly gave us to do.
"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations....teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you." (Matthew 28.19-20)
The fundamental, wholistic re-formation of our culture begins (again) with us -- the People of Jesus -- and that launches in the forge and flame of worshipping the triune Creator -- Father, Son and Holy Spirit -- on the Lordsday, and doing it not as babes of the Old Covenant (Gal. 3:24-25), but rather we undertake it maturely in imitation of our perfect King (Eph. 4.11-15; 1st Cor. 2.13-16) as New Covenant "grown ups" wisely finding His prescribed, sacred "institution" through command, narrative, and example. That means we must....
#14 -- Leave the mainline, man-fabricated church and locate a Primeval house fellowship
You're going to have to leave it in order to truly stay, dear Christian.
Leave, in order to stay. Our ”mainline” McChurches are fragmented, impersonal and disconnected which essentially is a thriving, robust model of isolation; there's just crumbs and wee droplets of spoiled, spilt grape juice there now dear Christian. It has had, here and there -- by the grace of Christ -- something to bless the world, but it's hollow, fabricated, and idolatrous.
We are in dire need of smaller congregations that are living out candid, interwoven lives and families, filled with close, dependent, one-anothering for God's glory and the love of our unbelieving neighbors. So, come to Christ's Institution He lays out in His Word, and not man's.
You might as well do it now, because soon enough in The United State all true followers of The Way will be meeting in homes and celebrating real Communion meals together due to our despotic, anti-Christ civil government (this'll be a "good" thing, painful at first, but it'll get us where we need to be and go!).
Sell the buildings now, and encourage your elder/pastor to get an everyday job that brings in most of his money (not all though, if possible, we need to be financially supporting those men who do the arduous, tiring work of sheparding and teaching among us (1st Timothy 5.17-18; Matt.10.10; 1st Corinthians 9.14); and, yes, even in smaller, house congregations), and then don't look back!
Please reference Ease & Mammon 3 to get the full background as to why I'm suggesting this measure.
* * And read my 10 theses for Primeval house fellowship entitled "The Primeval Tradition of the People of Messiah" for further consideration. * *
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