Tuesday, June 15, 2010

What's Going ON with the CHURCH???

I'm sorry to say...I have become disenchanted with the church. I really don't want to be a part of any organization that use manipulation or mind control in the name of our Lord. For example, when we believe in and serve God it's supposed to be by faith. It's by faith only that we trust that God does exist, obviously because we've never seen him. Unfortunately faith in God begins with faith in man first and I'm sorry to say because of that many many people have been led astray. I thought it worked like this...when we're spiritually immature we go to church and a message is being preached by a pastor who's supposed to have gone before God in prayer to receive a sermon from (God)to deliver to His people. The purpose of the sermon is to strengthen our faith encourage us to live holy and give us direction from God (not man). In between sermons we are supposed to read the bible for ourselves and look for what we were told during service to actually see for ourselves whether it is written in the word or not. Another reason for reading the bible on our own is to get wisdom so that we can independently apply the word of God to our daily lives. God knows everything about us, our beginning all the way to the end and everything in between. It's my understanding that the spirit of the Lord conveys these messages of hope to the preachers for us as we walk with Christ so that we are able to stay in the will of God trying our best to be obedient(not perfect!)as we go through this life long process. Unfortunately this is not how it's being done, some pastors are watering down the word of God and adding their personal opinions. They're putting words in God's mouth, they're sending the members on guilt trips and using scare tactics to get money from them and some. I say they should have all the faith that they tell us to have, believe God as they instruct us to and stop playing mind games on the people of God to raise offerings. They say things like if you don't tithe you're house isn't covered, I even heard a preacher say he survived a car accident because God remembered his tithe. So how do you explain non-tithers surviving car accidents!?! Come on now! People wake up! 2ND Cor.8:11-14 says give according to whats in your heart, it also says not to give where it'll make things harder for yourselves and easier for others. I don't believe for a second that God wants this! Besides the earth is the Lord's and everything in it, God is well able to work with any amount given with pure motives. Many preachers have taken advantage of their member's love and trust for them. Although people do start to worship pastors instead of God, it's their responsibility to redirect the people, to remind the people that God is the only one to be worshiped NOT MAN! Though my faith in God hasn't diminished my faith in man certainly has. This is not a good place to be, I get so confused at times sorting through what God says verses what man says. Which teachings to hold to and which to let go of. Of course I know to hold on to the word based teachings, but it can get very blurry! Still I try to stick to the scriptures and pray for understanding which is extremely hard to do when I have sooooo many wrong teachings so deeply embedded within my soul. However God IS GREATER! There's not one problem that He does not have a solution for. So I will keep trusting my Heavenly Father, that I know is safe.

God Bless You