Club God

This summer I took Caleb to the beach.  As we played in the water together, he tried to to talk and play with every one else(he is SOOOO outgoing).  One lady who was watching her grandson asked how old he was, I told her Caleb was two years old.  She was astonished because her grandson was two and Caleb is bigger than most four year old's.  Well that started her and I conversing and I asked the usual questions, then I asked if she attended a church in the area.  She told me she just joined a Mormon church because they have tremendous family values.  She must have seen my puzzled look when I said; I have never heard it put that way before.

Some of you might be saying what if anything is wrong with that?  I am glad you asked.  To answer this we must ask a couple of questions;

1.  What or who is the Church?  The Biblical church is not walls and floors but people.  Most people when asked about their church identify with a building.  If you say; I go to church, and don't understand what I have just said, then their is a good chance you are not even part of God's church.  The Good News is that you can change your position in Jesus Christ RIGHT NOW!?  The word "church" is ekklesia in the Greek which means assembly or called-out ones.  If you are saved, you are the church.  You can't go to what you are.  You are already it!?


Ephesians 1:22-23 NLT
(22)  God has put all things under the authority of Christ and has made Him head over all things for the benefit of the church.
(23)  And the church is His body; it is made full and complete by Christ, who fills all things everywhere with Himself.


2.  What is the purpose of the Church?   Corporate worship to a Holy, Righteous and Loving God for starters.  Teaching God's Word, providing fellowship for believers (the church), observing the Lord's Supper and to Pray (both corporate and individual prayer).


Acts 2:42 NASB
(42)  They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.


Now a by-product of the above would be better personal and family values however, that is not a reason to join a "fellowship / church.  If you just want those things then you can or are most likely in a Club.  The largest so-called christian church in the world doesn't teach God's Word, as a matter of fact only forty years ago you could still hear the Mass in Latin.  I know very very very few Americans that speak Latin - do you?  This same "church" doesn't want you to even read your Bible or bring it to the services - you gotta start asking WHY???

Further, if there is "secret stuff" going on in your "church", you also are in Club God.  Keep this in mind; the devil is not against religion (i'd say it again, but you should just read it twice - same effect).  Religion keeps people from "KNOWING GOD"!  You can only get to know God through a personal relationship with Him and to Know Him (The Father) you must Know who The Son really is.  If you have a false understanding of Jesus, you have a false relationship with The Father.  But Ernie, who then am I praying to?  You can figure that one out...

This is one "Club" you don't want to belong to.

Peace