Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Discipline in Church

We seem to be lacking in Church discipline these days. It is a difficult thing to have discipline when so many in our Church equate love with acceptance of wrong. It is difficult to have discipline when everyone is so worried about upsetting others or being politically incorrect. Our Churches today are caving in to the culture outside their walls, instead of being separated from it as we have been taught by our true Teacher. So many of our congregations are focused on learning about their denominations founders that they have lost focus of their Master and have lost their first love. Lastly, how can there be any discipline without direction and how can direction come when there is no unity among believers? We are taught to be of one mind and of one heart. Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ suffers when there is no one who will stand up for what He has taught us. What He has taught us is this, that we are saved only because of Jesus Christ. Our works then show what Faith has done and we move in a different way. When did God's house become a place of unabated selfishness where the spiritual leaders (Pastors) are more concerned about their income than speaking Truth? How can those who are blind lead those who are graciously able to see? Those who rule the world have now come to rule our Churches and those who have received God's grace are forced to seek each other outside the man-made altars and stained glass windows of these buildings. Let us know that we as believers are much more than any building and that our true altar is in heaven far above friends. Let us love one another by speaking Truth in love united in one Spirit of one mind. We know that Proverbs states, "Rebuke one who scorns you and they will hate you for it. Rebuke a wise man and he will love you for it." We are to grow more mature together as one body of believers not come together to tear each other a part. We come together seeking instruction and to be sanctified in Truth knowing God's Word is Truth. We are to be more together than we are alone not less and to pour ourselves out as an offering to those who will listen. To those who are children of disobedience who choose their own way our instruction is clear...we are to have nothing to do with them who choose to rebel against authority/Authority. Grace and Peace to you all from God the Father through our Lord Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit.