Establishment Christianity vs. Remnant Christianity

What distinguishes Establishment Christianity from Remnant Christianity?


1.

Establishment Christianity demands man be the mediator between it and God. Whether the Romanist Magisterium or the Protestant Priesthood of Scholars and scholar-clerics.

Remnant Christianity knows and accepts there is one Mediator between God and man and that is Jesus Christ.


2.

Establishment Christianity demands to have a constructed text based on rejected, corrupt manuscripts with the authority of scholars in it for their word of God.

Remnant Christianity recognizes and accepts the Received Text (indeed defends the Received Text throughout history) and values it because it has the authority of God in it.


3.

Establishment Christianity practices the respecting of persons, something which God hates.

Remnant Christians are so beaten down and despised by the world that they couldn't practice respecting of persons if they wanted to. Those of the world don't want a Remnant Christian even identifying with them.


4.

Establishment Christianity fears and reveres man more than God and demands others do the same in their environments where they have the power to police.

Remnant Christianity fears and reveres God alone and not man and knows that only the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.


5.

Establishment Christianity exalts man and ritual above the word and the Spirit.

Remnant Christianity knows regeneration is the main thing and that it is effected, when it is effected, by the word and the Spirit, not clerics and ritual.


6.

Establishment Christianity divides people in its confines into leaders and 'laypeople.'

Remnant Christianity knows that Christians are prophets, priests, and kings, and recognize the bar is raised high by the faith but that the Holy Spirit enables Christians to meet that bar and become complete in understanding and practice of the faith.


7.

Establishment Christianity is marked by a general shallowness among its leaders and those they lead. Even its intellectuals can't discern between surface knowledge and deeper understanding and practice of the faith, and neither do they value anything of a deeper level; and they actively dissuade their 'laypeople' from getting a deeper understanding of the faith by the use of mocking and stern warnings.

Remnant Christianity values and acquires a deeper understanding of the faith because the understanding Remnant Christianity develops by default is borne of spiritual warfare.