Another 'family time at the church building' place

Look at this:

http://www.redeemerchurch.ca/

Another 'church' that is nothing more than Village of Morality 'family time' worldly correctness. Look at the suits and ties. The 'See? I have a wife and a child, thus I'm a correct Christian-person!'

The faith isn't about family. It's not about dressing like you work at a Ross Perot company. "My people only wear white shirts and ties, and if they don't like it they can work somewhere else. It was good enough for me at IBM, and it's good enough for them. Now..."

For real Christians today a good bookstore is the only thing that comes close to a real sanctuary from the world.

Walking into a church like the one above is like walking into your neighbor's family reunion. You're not one of them, and they don't even like each other. Though they will show 'some degree' of cohesion in silently accusing you of being a child molester or - worse - one of those regenerated by the Word and the Spirit Christians.

"My God, how weird that person seems. Like he is separated out from the world. Why would he think to show up here? Why would he think he's one of us? Let's give him the silent treatment, and if he stays around too long I have a brother-in-law who is on the police force, and I can call him and have him do a check on him. He'll just have to be escorted out of the building first. Everybody keep an eye on the kids."

Was that 'seperated out from the world' person Jesus Christ? Close; a follower of Jesus Christ, who is experiencing what Jesus experienced.

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A note on 'sermonizing'... Notice how these 'pastors' speak from their pulpits. Prepared texts giving their audience nothing more than they could get more practically and effectively from a chapter in good book on doctrine. As a Christian if you can't *speak from understanding*, with no prepared script, you shouldn't be speaking at all. When you speak from understanding you not only are speaking from understanding but you are connecting with the audience in a real way. You are delivering understanding to the audience in a direct way. An intangible give-and-take connected way that doesn't occur - can't occur - when you are reciting a prepared text like some honor student performing for your teachers and parents.

Why isn't what I write common knowledge? It's not exactly rare knowledge. It's because the world and the flesh, and the devil own everything involved with Christianity. It's all been turned into Churchianity. (Churchianity is a term I came across in the 1980s from a backwoods preacher from Arkansas, but I see it finding its way into the vocabulary of mainstream types who use it not knowing its meaning, or intentionally using it in a way different from its intended meaning. The world at work again.)

You're not a regenerated Christian if you're accepted by *any* worldly group, folks. That is the hard reality of the faith. Regenerated Christians are *awake* in the world. Awake *to* the world. Not sleeping drones going through the motions the world approves of. Regeneration itself makes you an enemy of the world, the flesh, and the devil.