Church Bondage

  • Thread starter Thread starter Ramon
  • Start date Start date
  • Christian Chat is a moderated online Christian community allowing Christians around the world to fellowship with each other in real time chat via webcam, voice, and text, with the Christian Chat app. You can also start or participate in a Bible-based discussion here in the Christian Chat Forums, where members can also share with each other their own videos, pictures, or favorite Christian music.

    If you are a Christian and need encouragement and fellowship, we're here for you! If you are not a Christian but interested in knowing more about Jesus our Lord, you're also welcome! Want to know what the Bible says, and how you can apply it to your life? Join us!

    To make new Christian friends now around the world, click here to join Christian Chat.
R

Ramon

Guest
Church has been a grave bondage for many people. Church has kept many people away from Jesus Christ, and focused on other things, other people. Church has kept people who sit in buildings listening to pastors in bondage to sin, and has also kept people who might have been saved away from Jesus Christ.

Church has become an organization where people go to say they are saved. It is an institution where people think that giving money will show how obedient to Christ they are. It is a place where importance of a building is more than that of feeding the sick and visiting widows, and going out into the world and preaching the gospel.

Rather than taking Jesus to the world, Church has thought that the world should go to Church. Church has become a place where earthly wealth is praised and the Spiritual blessings of Christ are diminished. Their altars are not sacred, their synagogues are not the temple of the Lord. The only temple that is Holy is the TRUE temple of the Lord where the Holy Spirit lives. And the only altar that is sacred is the altar of Jesus Christ.

Time and time again people go to altars and leave unchanged. Or maybe they don't and assume they are saved. But the Lord knows who are his own, and who are not. You don't have to go to Church to be saved. You must go to Jesus Christ!!! The altar of his cross is the only altar where atonement can be made. Your pastor doesn't have the words of Eternal life, Jesus Christ does. You don't need classes and meetings and missions, you need Jesus Christ and his Holy Spirit. You must be lead by his Spirit, not by Church rules.

There is freedom in Jesus Christ. Freedom to OBEY, and love. Freedom from rules and laws and organization. People who are lead by the Spirit are like the wind, no one can tell where it comes from or where it is going. The Holy Spirit cannot move under man's organization.

There is freedom in Jesus Christ. We will not answer for what our pastor taught or what we THOUGHT was right. We will answer to Jesus Christ, and anyone who does not obey him will not enter his kingdom.

There is FREEDOM in Jesus Christ. AMEN!!!
 
Amen brother! The saying is so overused nowadays that we tend to forget that it was Jesus who first said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:31-32, emphasis added) He went on to say “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed." (John 8:34-36)

And what was the "truth" according to Him? "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” (Matthew 22:37-40) In my opinion, the more human nature insinuates itself into the Gospel, the worse off we get.
 
you chose who you listen to the Truth as Jesus taught or the Lies taught by the demons who whispers even in the ears of the churches. Peter spoke words of the devil by questioning Jesus when he said he would be cruxified and die on the cross. He said "surely not Lord" just as Satan told Eve "surely you will not die"

There are great benefits to the church and standing united with fellow Christians. you see the power of prayer when you join together with other members in the body of Christ. alone a lung can do nothing but as a whole body, we can shout God's message to the ends of the Earth, heal the sick and cast out demons. That is the calling of disciples of Christ. We are to be united in Christ. Resist anything that tells you to worship your own works or your own thoughts, the church, etc. they are idols people erect. tear them down! Worship the Creator not the Created!
 
I think we all should be part of a church.

We need to realize churches aren’t perfect. We should try to set a good example for others in our churches.
 
resurrection33 said:
I think we all should be part of a church.

We need to realize churches aren’t perfect. We should try to set a good example for others in our churches.
Click to expand...

The church is being perfected. We don't need to be part of A church. We need to be of The Church. The church is not a building. The church isn't a synagogue. The Church are the children of God who have been saved by grace, who also walk in newness of life by the Holy Spirit. Church is only an institution men make in the image of the true church, hardly so even. The Church is not observable with human eyes. Men don't build the church. Jesus builds his own church, using his OWN foundation.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom
Back