I mentioned about "Jesus, God our Father and the Holy Spirit" in reference to believers sharing their testimonies. Sometimes they would attribute something they learned or experienced to a specific part of the Godhead. I guess for me I just like listening to the excitement or seriousness of the emotions involved in sharing what God had showed and impressed on them it was real. This fellowship made me so happy each sharing their part. I remember walking away thinking God is great and wanting to know Him more.
Maybe, you never experienced that but I have and it is wonderful. but with all the other stuff that was marketed to christians for money their hearts and minds were stolen from that and slowly converted from doing to listening, from listening to apathy, from apathy to unbelief, from unbelief to sin and there has been plenty of casualties as a result. This has made me so sad and lonely for that previous fellowship. I know there are people like me and my wife. Like the Lord told, Elijah there are 7000 that haven't bowed the knee to Baal. But you get tired sorting through all the liars. and most likely many here seeking that real fellowship, but we need real life personal interaction too!
It is hard to even get a conversation like this started in real life, because of peoples pride it ends quickly because of the sense of judgment imposed on someone just for sharing. Sometimes it becomes a battle of who knows what. I steer clear of those because most of the time no fruit comes from it and is why it is hard sometimes to bring a new believer to your church to become derail before they even get started. That's why I said, "Now we live in the land of theory in unvalidated experiences and fight over the perceived outcomes" in part because I believe people are lying maybe to themselves but definitely to others about where there really are at with Christ/God.
I think partly because we have had people teaching us theories and not a life intersecting with God via the scriptures and(or) through the Holy Spirit producing outcomes that people could identify with or learn from. So why can't we have our own theory and so the apostate church has been born becoming all kinds of things and everything else after the early church which is really nothing more than another opportune protest from it previous successor until we have this world filled with so much division, churches and organizations that today even people are divided sitting in their own churches (factions) And what did Jesus say, "a house divided will not stand"
So, it becomes a wall of pride that is unscalable to anyone standing on the outside of it wanting to be in relationship with YOU. Pharisees and Jesus, lying christians and Jesus and there will come a judgment on all that have rejected the ministry of Jesus Christ, but for those who have continue to believe what is right and live it these are the remnant that God keeps bringing forward.
What is right? That is a great question, that should drive you as an individual into prayer, study and yielding to God and seeking Him and seeking out others that know Him. not living in a group of pretenders who have a form godliness but deny the power that changes us. Jesus made it simple, "you will know them by their fruit" (not just all their talking). What they are living and what it produces is the fruit and it should be tangible not hyperbole.
And all of this is not to judge anyone, but to warn us to think soberly as the rest of the world is swaying like a bunch of drunks under the seduction of the devil. Who will be sober to reach out to some them? I hope you and me.
