Highlights!
-Denominations are man's idea of carrying out God's work, but not God's design. I know some people would be surprised by the above statement. You just have to stay connected for more light.The establishment of denominations has never been an agenda in God's heart, and it wasn't the pattern in scripture. Revival and religious movements evolve with time into denominations partly became those in leadership allowed their human ego to dull their understanding of God's plan.
-Are denominations bad? No! Most of them are doing great things for humanity, but that shouldn't be mistaken for God's accord. The fact that God uses a denomination to accomplish certain things that don't mean God agrees with its modus-operandi
- One of the principal sins of denominationalism is that most denominations seek to extend their branches wherever their resources take them. That is contrary to God's modus-operandi for the expansion of his kingdom on earth. On the final day of reconning, most denominational heads will come to realize that God was not a part of their denominational drive to be everywhere their ambition, and resources could take them. Why?
Some of the places some denominations desire to extend to, already have ministries, assembles, and missions with God's wisdom, strategy, and mandate to conquer those territories for the Lord.
Most denominations don't bother to find out the situation of other ministries and assemblies where they plan to extend their branches. Talkless of seeking the heart of God to know if they are mandated to spread where their resources can take them. At times, their quest to be everywhere, locally, nationally and internationally seems more "imperialistic" than kingdom. They fail to realize that God has a roadmap for the success of his work and the harvest of the earth. And, he has ministers/ ministries/ assembles, and missions assigned to villages, towns, cities, and nations with the mandate to subdue and take over those territories for the Lord. The fact that a denomination has the financial, material and human resources to expand to a particular country is not the same as having God's mandate for that nation.
When the children of Israel were on their way to the promised land, the Lord made it so clear to them that they were not to invade the lands he gave to Esau and the children of Lot (Deut 2:4-20). The same principle is true with the work of the kingdom, but most denominations go as they can pay. And the consequence is the subversion of the church we have today and competetion between denominations in several places.
Some of the time, the Lord expects churches and ministries with extra resources to identify and partner with those on the ground in certain places, already doing great work for the Lord instead of extending their denominational branches there. If this were the case, we would have reaped the harvest of the earth.
Today, it seems more as if to be reckoned with in certain quarters of Christendom, a church or ministry must grow into a denomination with branches everywhere. I dey die laugh!
Some boast of having 4000 churches around the world! "We have 5000 branches." God willing, in my next write up, I'll show you the "wrongs" with the above mindset and the sin in it. And, how the above mindset is hampering the expansion of God's kingdom instead of helping it.
I hope that some of the things I write will orientate the emerging generation not to follow the errors of the past and present, but to chart a new way forward for the expansion of God's kingdom on earth as ordained by God.
May God help us! Watch out for part 2!
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