A strange wind is blowing — well, maybe not strange really, but contrary for sure.
Is it just happenstance, this dissatisfaction, fightings, and full blown shameful attitudes troubling our fellowships these days?
Churches are divided so that brothers, once united in fellowship and in the pursuits of the purposes our God, now fight each other for the very things our Savior rejected— fame, money and the powers and glories of this world.
While we’re fighting over who holds what position of leadership, or who controls the money, or who has the final say in matters we shouldn’t even be fighting about, people are slipping off, sliding from the pews of the Church.
Where are they going when they slide off?
Where do they end up?
Sometimes, I think it was a deliberately planned and executed strategy of the enemy against the Church — lure them with winds that lull them into a false sense of rest and comfort. Then, they would be too heavy and sleepy to recognize, much less resist any attacks.
The power of God is still present today to help us succeed in the calling we have received from God, but God will not pick sides and indulge those trivial tendencies.
What is at stake — the souls of men — cost the life of God to secure.
We should be about our Father’s business, fulfilling the purpose He has committed to our hands.
At what point would we have had enough of the consequent harvests of yielding to the lure of strange winds?
How should the Church respond?
What should we do?
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Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. (Ephesians 5:14)
Such an important topic. Thanks for sharing, friend.
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