In some ways, the church of God has become a professional corporation. The kingdom of God and Christianity were never meant to be a corporation or professional entity. A Christian is a disciple and follower of Christ, meaning that as He is, so are we in this world. The problem then with professionalizing the gospel or turning church into a company is that policies, rules, and standards need to be upheld to maintain a good reputation.
However, my bible tells me that those who are born of the Spirit are unpredictable, you don’t know which way they will turn. You can’t systemize “true” Christianity.
If He is our example then we should just examine one day in the life of Christ. You will notice devils manifesting, diseases healed, the uncompromised Word of God being preached to challenge people and bring them into the deeper things of the kingdom, all of which offended those in a corporation and professional type religion (aka the Pharisees).
Corporation and professional Christianity does not facilitate or accommodate the move of the Spirit of God, nor is it the wineskin that will give birth to the true sons of God the earth and creation are groaning for. The modern-day corporate Christianity is just another face of religion that fulfills the agendas and purposes of man while sacrificing the manifest presence of God.
When the presence of God is manifest, anything can and will happen. Therefore, the wineskin of a corporate professional gospel gives no room for the “true” person of God (which is His presence) to manifest.
I don’t think a life in the day of Jesus looked polished. In fact, devils manifesting, people wanting to throw you off a cliff, laying hands on leper’s, spitting on dirt and rubbing the mud on someone’s eyes, telling people they had to eat his flesh and drink his blood to enter the kingdom, doesn’t look very corporate or professional to me.
It doesn’t mean though, that there are no governing standards or order in the Kingdom of God, it just implies that when the Word of God is our standard and order there will be room and freedom for the Lord to manifest by His Spirit. Paul’s epistles explain the governing order in the church through leadership. However, religion systemizes things AWAY from the Word of God and His order. Yes, there must be accountability, leadership, true authority under the governance of the Word of God.
But cultures and systems that hijack God’s presence and prevent the Spirit from moving, keep God’s people immature and hinder them from rising into true sonship.
If church looked like how the Word of God explained it, there would be a rightful governance with maturity and purity which would develop followers who lay down their lives for Him and each other in the reverence of Christ. The Lord did not pay a price for His people to feed upon the plastic fantastic watered-down self-serving gospel that religion promotes. He delivered the authentic unadulterated Word of God and preached it with signs and wonders following.
Excerpt from Anita’s book – The Day of Ruach – The Third Day Reign
This is an updated edition of a post originally published on Revival Flame Ministries
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