Let the revolution begin!
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 2 Corinthians 5:17
"The New creation" in Christ isn't someone putting on religious regalia's and immersed in church activities, but someone whose heart and mind have undergone a rebirth, and whose life is reflecting the mindset and lifestyle of another world (Heaven) on the earth. To be a New creation in Christ isn't something you become by merely confessing that you are, but who you become through an experience with God. What you do not know, you can't enjoy. It would take the New Creation in Christ to respond to the groaning of creation in this hour.
The local church was supposed to be "God's factory" where the New creation in Christ are birth not an environment for baseless religiosity and endless recycling of one and the same experiences, which leave Christians perpetually depended on their leaders for prayers, healing, deliverance and counseling. This kind of religiosity blinds, handicaps and reduces people into high maintenance and low impact converts. Christ is waiting to see the manifestation of his New Creation in this time of the world's darkest hour.
The scripture didn't say, "Therefore if any man be "in Church," he is a new creation," but "in Christ." To be "in" something is to be immersed and lost in it and beloved, I've to be sincere to you, it takes a walk and experience with the Lord to get there. I know we are living in a time when some individuals are trying to cheapen serious divine experiences in other to increase their denominational membership or television audience. See what we got as a result of our cheapening of truth; we got millions of people in Church who have been there for years, but are strangers to the revelation of truth, confused and of no real consequence to the cause of Christ.
Today in some quarters of Christendom, who really cares about helping people to deepen their experience and walk with the Lord? What matters most is the "tithes and offerings" flowing in from unregenerate souls who are longing for God, but finding none to show them the way. Since the competition among some in Christendom is centered on "who got the best church building," "most expensive cars," "who goes on vacation to the most lavish resorts" and the person with the highest number of security personnel in his or her entourage, and the one whose wife wears the most expensive jewelries and others, etc, getting money to cater for "all these" and to keep up with the competition, has made the real focus of the gospel and God''s kingdom issues of lesser priority.
Meetings where money is raised are preferred over those where people are humbled before the Lord in repentance and dedication to Christ kingdom revolution. There is nothing wrong with raising money to fund real kingdom projects, but when raising money becomes the hidden agenda for every important meeting, then something is definitely wrong. We need a reordering of our values in Christendom. We seem more lost in church, then the people we are trying to convert. We need a "rude awakening," which would uproot, pull down and destroy the carnality and fleshly empires we are building in God's name in order for God to plant and build us into his New Creation in Christ, capable of restoring fallen creation into harmony with the one who created all things. Lord! Let the revolution begin! Be blessed! From your Friend, reaching you from his own Island of Patmos." DrBenard Etta
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