I’ll tell you straight here: God loves relationship. He loves to have companion. His personality itself express in triune proves genuinely. Relationship was there in His heart from the beginning of time. The longing for fellowship and the feeling to belong to someone became His heartbeat. And that’s the only reason that He made the world and put someone like him, and not only that, He put more of someone like Him: Human.
When I was saved at the age of seventeen at the same time my father living with another woman. As I am praying for my parent reconciliation I began asking God, “Lord, why this is happening to us? Can’t you feel how it breaks my heart?” As I fondle of this God let me show how He feels when man sinned and I began to feel what He feel and cried much in tears. I realize how relationship is important to Him with humanity. Very important that He even sent His only Son to pay man’s debt of death to redeemed and is reconciled back to Him! I’ll tell you, He loves relationship…with whom? Humans not bricks!
So long we have been mislead by this old pagan schemes that God lived in temple made with hands! And I say it’s enough. This generation and the next to come and until Jesus comes shall see Christianity in a new way. The new man, the new creation shall not see through a stained glass window Christianity. The Bride of Christ should see His Coming Groom not as what others wanted her to see but as clearly as His Groom intended Him to see. The Body of Christ, His Church should not listen to any other human’s head but to his own Head, Jesus!
Let us not tolerate anymore to those so-called Christians who call themselves Church and yet at the same time called their buildings “Church Buildings.” That is half-truth. That is a very misleading statement because then we start putting some value on bricks and start pouring our resources on it instead of the true Church, God’s people who need these resources in itself. Check out the early church, they pray and sell their lands and possessions to help the needy in them but today we pray and bought some lands and bring in some possessions to build Cathedrals and use the member’s resources to pay its bills! How pathetic!
I challenged three pastors asking them a very practical question regarding who pays their church monthly average. One was quick to answer saying, “That’s not our worry because we don’t shoulder them ourselves. We let our members pay its bills!” But isn’t that using people? We tried our best to convince them to give to God and give they did indeed. But where does that money really go? Of course, to the owner of the building. And who is he really? Bluntly, he’s an unbeliever. Think about it, taking some monies from God’s people and put them in unbeliever’s bank account! You be the judge.
If God really lives in our Church Buildings then why we just stayed there two hours on Sundays? Ophs, sorry its three hours plus Midweek Services and some prayer meetings. Don’t be fooled God’s children, God lives in you 24 hours a day, every minute of the day, seven days a week! You’re not a full time minister just because you received your monthly salary or work as a volunteer daily, nor a part-time worker because you just received an allowance and much more you’re not a Sunday-goers Christian just because you have no inside job on the four walls of your church, you just sit in a pew, stand a bit, jump a bit high and sing up to your throat and give then bye.
There was never a holy place in Jesus time. When He was transfigured in the mountain the three mountain climbers Peter, James and John thought the place was instantly holy so they plan to build some Cathedrals. And directly they want it done in Jesus Name! There was never a holy place in Jesus time, how much more today!
Jesus only hallowed man and nothing else. The pulpit was never holy as well as the instruments. If it be hallowed then already there’s a lot of Christians had already died for quite a millennia! Remember Abinadab…………… who just touched the ark of the covenant and died? I stayed enough inside Church buildings and have seen a lot of abominable people doing abominable things, mostly are people in church leadership. The feeling guilty toward things and not toward God has been wasted.
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