GOD's Next

You're shocked, right? God "disorganizing" churches. It shocked me, too, when I saw the first time how the modern church had become a far, far cry from how the church looked in the bible--the church Jesus said he'd build. Modern church looks more corporate than being God's family of believers. In fact, sometimes more corporate than the corporate world (worldlier than the world). It's become too organized, and worldly at that.  Photo by Peter Herrmann on Unsplash . What Church is to God Organization is good as long as it's the kind God introduced in the bible--which is familial, or how God runs his family. In the Gospel, Jesus introduced Kingdom "organization," for lack of a better term. There's the discipler and his disciples, the brethren. This is the basic unit. Then it grows. All brothers and sisters. A family. A body. A household. As simple as that. "Organization" starts from there and evolves as the Holy Spirit gives it growth...

We can't get to the second step if we missed the first. Back to our first love. We have drifted so far away without noticing it. Our wrong priorities have enticed us so much and brought us to things we thought were God's next but weren't. Instead, our wrong direction brought us nearer mystery Babylon than the Kingdom of God without realizing it. And we think we're on the right track. This is why Jesus warned us about being deceived in the last days. Yup, we really think we are on the right track. Photo by Kristine Weilert on Unsplash . In many ways, we're all like the church in Ephesus (I mean we, the church, in general). We work so hard in ministry and persevere. We go on planting more churches and never giving up no matter the cost. We're equipped with our denominational doctrines and theologies and earn as many titles and degrees on them. We're not easy to fool or be persuaded to another religion. We attack sin and ungodliness. We never tire of our usual...