So many churches and preachers are out side of Truth
so if any church or preacher is not following the biblical standards , if they practice the false doctrine or false gospel. what is out responsibility? Jesus cleaned the temple when they did wrong in temple. Jesus expressed his angry too.. Please share your thoughts ,, if some one is not following the truth and fundamentals,,
1. what to do ? still need to continue the fellowship?
2. what to do ? maintaining silence without doing some thing ?
3. or we need to work to preach and truth to them?
please share your replies as Lord permits..
Frankly, you're actually addressing the institutional model, which is not God-breathed as was the temple in Jerusalem. The institutional model is therefore purely man-made given that the Lord now indwells His people, not dead buildings. The people in those institutions, who come from all walks and stripes of life, they have the right to form organizations and hire the religious hirelings they so choose to hire to fill whatever role the people supporting that organization wants for themselves. Those things make the people feel good, and even assume that they are closer to God in those things, all of which will perish with this earth and universe.
The temple, on the other hand, was a special place...a house of prayer. Its dimensions were laid down by the Lord, not man. It's purpose was also established by the Lord. It was the place where His presence dwelt. The dead buildings of modern and historic institutions, although take top priority in it's supporter's so-called "giving unto the Lord," again, all of which will burn up with this world, they are where people go to feel as if that is how they get closer to God, and that is as it is.
To go into any one of those places and try to take from those people the freedoms they have in Christ, even in forming dead institutions that practice the programmatic approach to what they see as the "gathering of believers," that's not a wise thing to do, and I have grave doubts the Lord would approve of the type of cleansing that Jesus did in the temple commons among the pillars. That's nothing more than disrupting a public program and show. Many people are blessed by them...some of whom have Holy Spirit within them. If the ear-ticklers want to hear falsehoods, that's on them since the priesthood of the ancient model is no more.
One can run down the isle in a modern churchianity organization, yelling "Ichabod, Ichabod," and for what? Those people are NOT going to stand up and walk out with you. They are there to support the falsehoods, and assaulting their ears with lamentations that shine the light of ungodliness upon the numerous false teachings and practices, you would only succeed in being removed by the ushers...poste haste.
The best thing any of us can do is to be good stewards over the souls to whom we minister through discipleship, and leave all other ministers and their tickling ear zombies stuck in perpetual sheepdom alone. You can try to speak truth to the ministers in those things, but rest assured that those who have letters attached to their names are generally not going to listen to you or me if the Spirit of the Lord is not opening them up to being receptive to a message of correction and rebuke.
A minister years ago once told me that I MUST introduce to him any other minister who would dare claim that there is not temptation toward pride for being the guy who rules a pulpit each week for preaching to the audience so that he could call such a man a liar and a cheat. Having been in the pulpit myself, I could certainly attest to that temptation. Those who do not give in to that, I admire and stand beside. The rest...
So, such energy and zeal for truth is better expended in reaching the lost through your own efforts in Christ and raising them up to spiritual maturity without those institutions, unless you can find one as a supplement that is centered squarely on the purity of the word of God, and those are becoming increasingly rare. I found one up in Wichita, KS, and it was so packed, there were people standing along the sides to hear the preacher there because the vast majority of the other institutions in that city and all others were/are pretty much polluted with the leaven of liberal, social, cultural and progressive theologies. That is exactly the message I heard from some in that grouping, and my wife any I never went back there because she simply cannot handle how horribly uncomfortable the pews are for her lower back, which is filled with hardware from fusions.
So, we gather with others in homes where there is far more comfortable seating.
Live and let live, my friend.
MM
