This post expresses disillusionment with organized religion’s overwhelming emphasis on monetary focus, drawing parallels between Jesus cleansing the temple and modern church practices. It critiques the intertwining of money and ministry, highlighting examples like costly programs and conferences, building programs, tithing emphasis, and other distractions, arguing that they distort the true purpose of Christian communion and truth-seeking.
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The Called Out Ones
Many of us who have come out of the routine of organized religion and institutional Christianity (or “church-ianity” as I rather like to call it) are familiar with this term ecclesia and understand it to represent “the called out ones”. This definition is derived from the fact that ecclesia is actually a compound of two words in the Greek (ek, which means “from out of” and kaleo, which means “to call forth”).
Forsaking the Assembly?
Author: David Y. | January 3, 2015 “And let us not forsake the fellowship that we have among ourselves as the manner of some is: but let us exhort one another and that so much the more because ye see that the day draweth nigh.”Hebrews 10:25 (William Tyndale’s Translation, 1526) The following was taken from a…
What Would Jesus Do? The Question That Fuels Institutional Christianity
Author: David Y. (June 20, 2005) – It was the proverbial Christian catch phrase of the 90’s and it’s still going strong. You see it practically everywhere you look: On bumper stickers, fish emblems for automobiles, t-shirts, banners, hats, bracelets, necklaces, Christian television and virtually everywhere else imaginable in church world. It is sounded over the loudspeakers of rock concerts, conferences, radio and printed in the religious educational materials of many churches and youth ministries. It is the question that almost literally fuels Institutional Christianity itself… but is it wisdom to use this terminology as born-again Believers in Christ Jesus?
The Christian’s Greatest Enemy
Author: A. W. Tozer – In the Old Testament, the enemy that threatened Israel the most was the dictatorship of the customary. Israel became accustomed to walking around in circles and was blissfully content to stay by the safety of the mountain for a while. To put it another way, it was the psychology of the usual. God finally broke into the rut they were in and said, “You have been here long enough. It is time for you to move on.”