I May be trodding on some toes here...

I am tired of seeing people make decisions based on how they think there congregational leaders will react. Why do so many Christians think they are ok by God as long as they are ok by “the Church”? I hate to say this but in my experience I have personally been more “right” with my father when I have not been so “right” in the eyes of church structures and denominations, for the reason that my focus is not been skewed toward pleasing a certain “culture” or “theology”. My mind and heart are free to be grown by God in a truly spiritual way, they way he wants us to grow, IN HIM. People believe heresy comes from leaving the church “Covering”, I believe and history shows that the majority of the time it comes from within the denominational empires we have created, and even though unintentionally, it happens on a big scale. It is interesting to note that if we take a look at the word covering in the New testament it appears once in regards to a woman covering her head...it seems we have uncovered another nice made up rule to keep people from putting their trust in God instead of man.

What if instead of wondering how they will be viewed by their church people asked their God directly how he would have them live? That’s were individuality and diversity come from, the individuality that he birthed in each one of us. But instead of celebrating it and allowing it to reach into every culture, sub culture, man woman and child on the planet as we are capable of, we conform it to the same set of convictions and boundaries given us by a few leaders overseeing thousands of smaller leaders overseeing thousands of cattle all coming under a denomination that spends so much of its time attempting to be relevant to its surrounding culture that it creates a culture that is worthless.

God must have a lot of spare time these days because the church is doing his job for him, instead of relationship with Father we are living relationships with “Church”. We aim to get people transformed by our clever antiques and smooth rhetoric but forget to mention that they need not conform to the robotic culture we have created; they just need to let God love them and transform them by that love. Unfortunately the flood of pressure to act accordingly comes before God ever intended to bring conviction and teaches new Christians to do right by man and God will be happy with them. Without meaning to we are leading them away from an intimate trusting relationship with God.

I love the place where my wife and I go for fellowship, I love the people, I love the relationships I have with them. If we don’t feel like going, we don’t. We have no fear of what people will think of us because a persons spiritual temperature cannot be gauged by their church attendance. When people think it is they go only out of obligation and rot away with a slow resentment toward the judgement of others.

The truth is when you feel no obligation and you find a place where real brothers and sisters that are walking in relationship with father meet, it’s very hard not to feel like meeting with them at every chance you get. A good indicator of whether people are living in this way is to ask what happens more when they meet, gossip or confession? I know that sadly this is a distant feeling for many reading this and that’s why I am writing it. Not out of anger, but a desire to see people living freely in Christ, the way he intends. The wonderful thing about finding like minded people is that we celebrate our differences. We don’t bash each other into submission against our convictions and our peace before God.

Why have so many of us stopped trusting our Hearts. In the heart is where the spirit of God dwells, he guides us and loves us and if we let him, will be one with us like he is with Jesus. That is what the bible clearly states. He frees us from the shame of sin and teaches us to run to him in our darkest moments knowing that our healing, freedom, deliverance and strength is in him. Yet we are so suspicious of our own emotions that we chose to follow a set of rules given by the denomination we follow or the ‘pastor’.

What happened to Been free from Shame, free to love as he loves us, To often I see people manipulating other peoples sense of shame to bring them into a stricter less satisfying walk with a God that they misunderstand because of the route they we taken on to get to where they are. Denominations are rebuked in the bible and for the reason that they breed disunity. Often these days they used to let us presume things of others and stifle the persons gift of individuality.

Think about this, what is your first thought when someone tells you they are a ‘Baptist Christian’? Do you think of another Baptist person you have met and elate them to that persons walk with God, understanding of life, and theologies? I know I used to before I came under conviction for been so presumptuous. How insulting to God that we would take thousands of people who come under a certain title not given them by God and assume they all are just like the one prude we met at the pub who we disagree on. We are so damn closed minded and missing so many incredible opportunities for authentic relationship with the body. Not only are we boxing people into boxes we feel comfortable about, we are boxing ourselves into close mindedness.

How can our body stand united when we have separated our selves at each limb and still feel too close for comfort most the time? We Christians are a bunch of Hippocratic, shameful, controlling, self righteous and arrogant people in existence, and it seems like that is the only common thing between us.
We may as well rip every scripture to do with love out of our bibles because we have raped the definition over and over again to the point where we perceive love the way the world perceives it. This makes me very sad. God’s love exists that we may experience it and let it live in us and expand our thinking and help us show grace to others, but we don’t seem to get it ourselves. We have moved so far from it because we have been taught so often that we are only allowed that love if we live right, but not a single one of us does.

AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!