WHY THE CHURCH IS WITHERING?

Amos 5: 21 – 24:                                                                                                                             “I hate all your show and pretence—the hypocrisy of your religious festivals and solemn assemblies.   I will not accept your burnt offerings and grain offerings. I won’t even notice all your choice peace offerings. Away with your hymns of praise! They are only noise to my ears. I will not listen to your music, no matter how lovely it is. Instead, I want to see a mighty flood of justice, a river of righteous 

 living that will never run dry.” 

Romans 12: 2:                                                                                                                                                        “Don’t copy the behaviour and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will know what God wants you to do and you will know how good and pleasing and perfect his will really is.”

Church! What plagues thee? Church what ailed thee?                                                                                               

The Church is made up of individuals who ought to have been called out from the dirty rest of the world. So, if the Church is still sinful or outwardly converted but inwardly unchanged, then it is because there is no true and scriptural repentance on the part of the individuals who make up the Church. I have a question for you: Did the world creep into the Church or did the Church creep into the world?                                                                      

 5 Very Big Problems of the Church

1.       If a supposedly follower of Jesus Christ is not separated from sin, he or she will be a gateway for evil to enter the fellowship or church

2.       If a person is not separated from self; (that is, flesh or carnality), he or she will hinder the move of the Holy Spirit

3.       If on the other hand, the individual is not separated from the world, a gate has been opened for  covetousness, greed and hypocrisy to enter the fellowship or church

4.       The absence of oneness, love and accord in the body of Christ. With each group believing the lie that it can go or do it all alone. Jesus never meant this for His Church. The enemy through men has done this. Often it is difficult to find the Church in communities or nations agree on a common theme talk less of globally

5.       Making do with a sinful, disobedient, faithless, fearful, compromising, unregenerate, merchandising clergy and leadership

What is the Solution?

1.       The Church must acknowledge her sins, judge herself and put away evil and wicked persons in her midst even if it is in the leadership (1 Cor. 5: 9 – 13, Amos 5: 10, 14 – 15, Joel 2: 12 – 17)

2.       Repentance must be genuine and complete (Matt. 3: 2; 4: 17, Phil. 2: 12, 2 Pet. 1: 5 – 11, 2 Cor. 6: 14 – 18; 7: 1)

3.       Be absolutely obedient to Jesus Christ who purchased the Church with His blood and yield completely to the Holy Spirit whom the Church is sealed with. Men do not own the Church , it belongs to the Holy Ghost

The foundation for a fruitful and successful Christian life or church is genuine repentance and discipleship. The lack of these produces false Christianity or church. It is a hard truth.                                              

If as a Christian you cannot stay away from sin and evil, or the fruits in your life consistently reflect sin and evil, then you are not a Christian or church of God.

If the Church is to follow Jesus Christ into Glory and Bliss or be the Church of power, filled with and regularly experiencing the mighty move of the Holy Ghost, the solutions espoused above must happen or else the Church will reap what she sows. Prepare to meet your God, O Church! (Amos 4: 12).

Keep the Flag flying and the Oil burning. Maran'atha