Forsaking the Great Commission
Published at : October 01, 2021
The Holy Spirit does not give all the gift of teaching but we are all called to disciple the nations, starting with our children. The local children cannot socialize because of the way schools are structured, it got me thinking. Schools are so pinched for time, that kids cannot find a moment between their plastic walls to bond and have fun in a sterile world
We have secretly helped churches with unloading food from food trucks, nobody asked us our names or offered membership into the church.
We have also been members who were given select and controlled opportunities within the church based on our lack of connections or other people's opinions of us.
Usually, church members who give the most money are guaranteed places of power no matter their intentions. As I said, bathrooms need to be scrubbed and trucks unloaded, pride is NOT our problem. The problem is, the church wants to be forever served by a humble flock that never received the skills and confidence needs to disciple the nations. We get nothing in return except the opportunity to serve in the capacity that keeps the church doors open and the Pastor preaching. There are a lot of broken members that serve others without the hope of ever being built up to teach but are forever students of God's word (only). We are without a place to practice what others preach to us. No place to learn, under the authority of a Pastor, how to humbly preach, teach, and walk-in Holy Spirit power.
The pastors always say, 'go home and practice'...why can't we practice when we are among fellow believers so we can build up confidence and be refined by others with the same Spirit?
My question is, with the way the church is structured, have we been forsaking the assembly of the saints without know it?
If you are listening to one person preach all the time and never able to speak or bond with others that you are gathered with...are we really fellowshipping?
When we are allowed five minutes to say peace to our church members, I know they are hurting and in pain, but I cannot help them or love them because we are technically strangers. Is real fellowship naturally built into the structure of most churches around the world for weekly assembly?
I already have fake relationships with family members because I can't talk about Jesus...I don't want to pretend to care about ideas that are passing away. Even attending church weekly, I have gone spiritually hungry.
Are all of the opportunities to serve the church listed publicly for all members to see?
Are the different ways to serve the surrounding community as a Body in Christ listed?
Is there a group in church called to local discipleship field trips, Bible track making, celebrating members who have good news about positive experiences?
Are the power positions regularly cycled out with fresh faces?
Does everybody feel like an equal member of a whole body?
If you need help, do you know anybody other than the Pastor that you can call?... I don't.
If we can watch an online sermon and get the same experience as going to a local physical church, should the flock be made to feel guilty that the experience is the same?
All the signs are here to see. The Holy Spirit cannot move in a disconnected body with plastic walls and sterile emotions. The church seems aloof to me.
Last year I did a video on how I tend to be aloof, God showed me that log in my eye. Now I need more fellowship to live out my oat to God, but it's hard to find.
...and today is my 39th birthday! He gave me one more year...Glory be to God!!🎉
We have secretly helped churches with unloading food from food trucks, nobody asked us our names or offered membership into the church.
We have also been members who were given select and controlled opportunities within the church based on our lack of connections or other people's opinions of us.
Usually, church members who give the most money are guaranteed places of power no matter their intentions. As I said, bathrooms need to be scrubbed and trucks unloaded, pride is NOT our problem. The problem is, the church wants to be forever served by a humble flock that never received the skills and confidence needs to disciple the nations. We get nothing in return except the opportunity to serve in the capacity that keeps the church doors open and the Pastor preaching. There are a lot of broken members that serve others without the hope of ever being built up to teach but are forever students of God's word (only). We are without a place to practice what others preach to us. No place to learn, under the authority of a Pastor, how to humbly preach, teach, and walk-in Holy Spirit power.
The pastors always say, 'go home and practice'...why can't we practice when we are among fellow believers so we can build up confidence and be refined by others with the same Spirit?
My question is, with the way the church is structured, have we been forsaking the assembly of the saints without know it?
If you are listening to one person preach all the time and never able to speak or bond with others that you are gathered with...are we really fellowshipping?
When we are allowed five minutes to say peace to our church members, I know they are hurting and in pain, but I cannot help them or love them because we are technically strangers. Is real fellowship naturally built into the structure of most churches around the world for weekly assembly?
I already have fake relationships with family members because I can't talk about Jesus...I don't want to pretend to care about ideas that are passing away. Even attending church weekly, I have gone spiritually hungry.
Are all of the opportunities to serve the church listed publicly for all members to see?
Are the different ways to serve the surrounding community as a Body in Christ listed?
Is there a group in church called to local discipleship field trips, Bible track making, celebrating members who have good news about positive experiences?
Are the power positions regularly cycled out with fresh faces?
Does everybody feel like an equal member of a whole body?
If you need help, do you know anybody other than the Pastor that you can call?... I don't.
If we can watch an online sermon and get the same experience as going to a local physical church, should the flock be made to feel guilty that the experience is the same?
All the signs are here to see. The Holy Spirit cannot move in a disconnected body with plastic walls and sterile emotions. The church seems aloof to me.
Last year I did a video on how I tend to be aloof, God showed me that log in my eye. Now I need more fellowship to live out my oat to God, but it's hard to find.
...and today is my 39th birthday! He gave me one more year...Glory be to God!!🎉
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