You have no doubt heard about the church that tries to wipe out the weak or unstable in the church and you know the utter catastrophe that results.  People who are setting themselves up as restorers of the Church, call themselves reformers, and righteous avengers.  In fact there is nothing in the human experience that is outside of God’s providence, and the freedom that most Christians claim to exercise is neither liberating nor comforting. God’s business is both word and deed.  “Just like David” is the line from people like Joel Osteen, and most believers are obsessed with the idea that eternal life means a ticket to heaven and a life where they win and reverse every adversity.  The victory that makes them invincible, free from death, perfectly disease free makes them clanging cymbals and noisy gongs.

While you are healing others

How much of a witness for Christ can a person be without  daily cross and does anyone know when people become more triumphant than Christ and they are still aging, ailing and failing.  I wonder if they listen to themselves pressing people into a miracle seeking worship. 

Church with no weeds

The Church without weave is a pure satanic concoction. The Lord said that wheat nd tares will grow together until the time of harvest, yet I hear people trying to create some perfect Church where things go the way humans like it in every circumstance. The church is already perfect.  Your perfect congregation is a fantasy, never existed and never will.  If you had learned the first lesson about Christian fellowship you would know that lies kill you, not always literally like Ananias and Sapphira, but kill they do.  Getting people to join the church or if you like bringing people to Jesus, and then starve them on the word of God is a real genius plan from Satan. A church without needs is a church with no light from God on the lampstand.

The church has never been sick.  The leaders are the ones charged with lying, cowardice and pride (see Revelation 2 and 3).  Sickness, famines, persecution and death do not hinder the church.  The church is not a hospital.  It is not a place where anyone’s smile guarantees people a healing.  It is not a temple or holy place for sacrifice.  God’s true and enduring residence is the human body.  If healing is not happening there round the clock who do you want to believe you that churches are places of deliverance, especially when the same people come for healing every week, and the miracle workers themselves are the victims of seemingly perpetual satanic assaults.  At least the healers are liars, trotting out deliverance while they remain captive.

Discrimination, partiality and apathy

And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter (Greek logos) (Acts 15:6, KJVA)

Lots of talk and lots of books are no way to witness to the world  If the modern churches were genuinely grounded in the truth of the gospel there would be more expounders of the apostolic message than pushing the tradition of their sect.  People who really care about others cannot possibly expect to be respected as genuine philanthropes when their tools are the instruments of condemnation, death and self-righteousness.  Mercy, even to family members, is a strange thing that many godly people avoid.  There is a certain sound that comes when racism and self-righteousness are taken down from their thrones. most miracle workers seem to have lost the ability to empathize with the suffering and the oppressed, and they seem to be always ready to throw miracle working faith at every issue, whether it be actual maladies of the body or ignorance of the scriptures.

Endless talk and useless clanging

Yet even lifeless things, either flute or harp, in producing a sound, if they do not produce a distinction in the tones, how will it be known what is played on the flute or on the harp? For if the bugle produces an indistinct sound, who will prepare himself for battle? So also you, unless you utter by the tongue speech that is clear, how will it be known what is spoken? For you will be speaking into the air. (1 Corinthians 14:7-9, NASB)