There are a few who take the time and effort to look into The Scriptures for themselves. They query the instruction of experts speaking from pulpits; from those taught in seminaries grounded in human tradition. They go directly to the source and spend the years necessary to learn what God’s word actually says. Some are here at CC, but mostly they go unheard and unnoticed.
What they find is both beautiful and terrifying. Their fondest dreams of a closer relationship with the Creator God are fulfilled, but their lives are forever upended. In a sense, they can never again find the rest of naïve innocence.
They find an apostate church, a church full of honest souls struggling to live according to God’s will; but a church not teaching or practicing truth. They quickly learn harsh lessons, to speak God’s truth brings rejection, isolation, and condemnation. They are forced to listen to words spoken by other men, but refused the right to speak their own. They find a church that is rigid, deaf, and closed. They may sit quietly, or they may leave.
But there is nowhere for them to go. They find the Temple as fractured and filled with humanism as the Cathedral. They refuse to sacrifice their Savior Yeshua so they may then practice a slightly more bible based faith.
These people even lack an identification. For the modern apostate church, they are not Christian, neither are they Jew. They are not Messianic Jews as they believe Torah is kept fully, but “in the spirit” rather than in practice. They believe the whole bible, but fit neither in the “Old” nor in the “New.”
I have to wonder if Jesus experienced this very same feelings of disconnect and aloneness as he tried to forge a new path to Our Father; assuredly a path more difficult and much more dangerous.
2 Timothy 4:3–4: “For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their passions and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.”
What they find is both beautiful and terrifying. Their fondest dreams of a closer relationship with the Creator God are fulfilled, but their lives are forever upended. In a sense, they can never again find the rest of naïve innocence.
They find an apostate church, a church full of honest souls struggling to live according to God’s will; but a church not teaching or practicing truth. They quickly learn harsh lessons, to speak God’s truth brings rejection, isolation, and condemnation. They are forced to listen to words spoken by other men, but refused the right to speak their own. They find a church that is rigid, deaf, and closed. They may sit quietly, or they may leave.
But there is nowhere for them to go. They find the Temple as fractured and filled with humanism as the Cathedral. They refuse to sacrifice their Savior Yeshua so they may then practice a slightly more bible based faith.
These people even lack an identification. For the modern apostate church, they are not Christian, neither are they Jew. They are not Messianic Jews as they believe Torah is kept fully, but “in the spirit” rather than in practice. They believe the whole bible, but fit neither in the “Old” nor in the “New.”
I have to wonder if Jesus experienced this very same feelings of disconnect and aloneness as he tried to forge a new path to Our Father; assuredly a path more difficult and much more dangerous.
2 Timothy 4:3–4: “For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their passions and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.”
