FORM OR FUNCTION part two

Part one was the previous blog.

No church is going to make an impression on society without three essentials. Prayer, power and priesthood.

Most churches, even Pentecostal ones as a percentage of total activity are prayerless.

Most churches, even Pentecostal ones as an expression of a supernatural God are powerless.

Most churches, even Pentecostal ones, provide little opportunity for the priesthood of all believers, preferring to concentrate ministry in the hands of a select few ‘credentialed’ people who have shown their devotion to the denominational leadership.

No one seems bothered that the church with a few exceptions has ground to a halt.

No one seems bothered that a supernatural demonstration of the Holy Spirit is non existent.

No one seems bothered that the majority of Christians are merely pew warmers for an elite few to strut their stuff and entertain the troops, thus denying the very clear expectation and involvement of all believers in making the body of christ a living organism that is called to be an ambassador for christ and to establish an alternative kingdom of love and grace to give effect to the salvation that christ died to achieve. All this is done on the basis that the select few are called by God to serve him and the church, but carefully avoiding teaching found in scripture that says we are ALL ministers of the new covenant, not just the select few who in deed if not in word, are a breed apart so they are to be revered and lauded with special attention, position and privileges.

Such indifference is nothing more than crucifying the Messiah on a daily basis and making all that he accomplished totally ineffectual and meaningless.

Wake up to yourself church, your impotence is showing!!

Until the church makes prayer the programme, not part of it, it will remain impotent. Until the church pleads for a visitation of the spirit and a return of the supernatural, it will remain a man made institution that is totally ineffective. Until it gives the Holy Spirit the right to anoint whoever he chooses to fulfil ministry to the body of Christ and the world, the church will continue to offer the dead letter of the law. Until the church humbles itself and admits it has failed miserably by its own strength to fulfil God’s mandate to go into all the world and make disciples and to live up to God’s expectations, it will continue to be irrelevant to most of the population and useless to God. It will deserve to have its invitation to the feast revoked in favour of others in the highways and byways of life who are called into the kingdom supernaturally by the spirit and who are not shackled by man made religious institutions and rituals. Theirs will be a living relationship with a loving God and they will in the spirit, following his commands as he gives them to each individual.

There will be an explosion of power and prayer like this country has never seen and the forces of evil that have taken captive governments and people’s minds will be rendered powerless in the face of the supernatural onslaught that will be unleashed by these people who “love not their lives to the death.”

No compromise will take on a new and powerful meaning by these supernatural warriors of God’s kingdom. They will sweep all before them and truly “Jesus Christ will be Lord.”

As this happens, the institutionalised, man made and controlled church will sit idly by, secure in its ineffectiveness and probably say “it must be of the devil.”