By Janet Vargas - Inspirational Writer and People's Advocate
Do You Still Wish to Stay in That Local Church System OR Are you Awake To It
and Not Sure of What to Do?
To the Weary Heart: A Gentle Reminder
If you love Jesus but are terrified of His Self-Appointed Gatekeepers
on the Church Scene, please hear this:
Your fear is not a sign of a Broken Faith; it is a Normal Response to a Broken System.
That was planned by the Enemy of Mankind and Christianity. Devil actually means “Deceiver” remember? And without elaborating about that Ancient Foe, it’s Important to let People Know – Decent People and Christians alike – that Jesus Calls certain People to Bless Mankind in certain ways like He did through His Disciples he Left with Us to Spread the Glad Tidings to those around them and throughout the Earth (the World was pretty Small in those Days compared to Ours)
That Deceiver found just the Right Man to do his Destructive Work in Messing with Christianity (the Way Jesus Desired and Planned it to be, and His Disciples Implemented, and Everyone was Happy with) including Neighbours who witnessed it and asked to Come. Not like Ignorant Words like we hear Today……”Would you like to come to my Church?” and most people’s reaction on the inside is “Help No!” OR “Why would I want to Swap my Problems for Your Problems? At-least I am used to Mine” many can Sense there's Something Wrong with the Church Scene and Decent Living People see it as "Unhealthy" Friends, don't find fault with that because some of these Very Same People actually have a "Healthy Fear of God" than many "Church People" sadly speaking.
Early Christians were Very Happy and Joyful for a Long Time, because they heard the Gospel (Glad Tidings about Jesus) for the First Time; Experienced a remarkable Change in their Hearts and Lives; Experienced a Living Hope of Heaven, a real Expectation (everyone longs to be there who is Aware of a Creator. Right?) And they Personally Shared Each-Other’s Company in HOMES, Not Buildings. That was Constantine’s Making, when he had Deliberately Schemed to Merge Christianity with the STATE, which he Ran as the Emperor of Rome, so he could gain Control Over it!
Like Albanese, he was decidedly Wicked – and that doesn’t mean good – in Merging the Two Together. THAT Brought in the Buildings and Hierarchy; Christians were to no longer Fellowship in Houses and their Bibles were confiscated not long after that, so they could no longer Read the Words of Jesus for Themselves.
This was So Devastating, as you can Imagine? And by the time Christians could once again Own a Bible, the Face of Christianity had Changed drastically. So you can see how Evil that Plot was. Constantine, a Defender and Friend of Christianity? A Resounding “NO” to that. He had the Opposite Intentions, and that Church Model exists to this day - we have the Buildings and “Churchy Services” too. Some people like it, but Thousands have Left silently through the Years. And the Show Goes On, as if there's "Nothing Wrong?"
Jesus Never Built an Institution. He built a FAMILY. He never commissioned a Corporate Franchise; He invited us into a direct, living, breathing relationship. When Religious Systems become Heavy, Judgmental, and Toxic, the most Christian thing you can do is Walk Away from the Machinery to Protect Your Walk with the Person of Jesus. And ENJOY it, because He becomes More Precious without a Man-Made System Ruling your Lives.
Plus, you do not need to subject yourself to the Un-Christlike Behaviour of (many) Church Goers who are actually strangers really, to be Close to Jesus. Help No! I’m sure you’ve had enough of that?
He is your Safe Harbour. He is your REST. If your Sanctuary right now is a Quiet back Veranda, a Walk in the Hills, or a Peaceful Table with one or two honest Friends, Jesus is fully there. He promised He would be.
You are Safe. You are Accepted. You are Home.
"Come to Me, All You who labour and are heavy laden, and I will Give you Rest."
— Matthew 11:28
Jesus did not Call You to support an Institutional Franchise. He called you to Walk with Him. You do not need a building or a service, or a platform, or weekly sermon lectures, to be a Light in this World.
Additional Reasons to Leave
In this Day and Age, the “Church Scene” has become Everything but what it should be, in the Main: everything from Domination to Extremism; Social Gospel which is No Gospel; Deceptive Teachings; False Preachers like Kenneth Copeland from KCM and Bill Johnston from Bethel; Dangerous so-called “Prophets” like Mike Bickle from IHop. Christian Cults like those are on the Rise. Need I say More?
Contrary to what “Pastors tell You” I am saying to Christians “These Days, you are Safer OUT of the Church Scene” believe me, it’s Crazy out there (in many of them) just like the World!
I Encourage you: find yourself a much more Suitable Environment – even if it’s just with your Family at Home or a Christian Friend who has more Respect for Scripture, Heartfelt Prayer and Love for Jesus, than we see portrayed in Churches Today. Good Living Decent People are right, to see so much “Hypocrisy in the Churches” increasingly these days.
So I am “Calling it Out” for Every Decent person out there AND every Dear Precious Person – especially who is Young or Elderly – who has felt Compelled to Leave or has been Poorly treated by Church People or Pastors there. Not to mention New Comers who Sought to Find Comfort OR Company and found None, for the simple reason there’s so many Clicky People there. What a Disappointment? In their own words “they didn’t Fit In”……….that’s Very bad Folks. No, that kind of Behaviour is absolutely Not what Jesus Called Us to. Such Environments in No Way resemble FAMILY ATMOSPHERE.
What am I saying here? You’re Free to Leave? Yes FREE, and Jesus will Catch You, He will “meet you Outside the Door” like He did with a previously Blind Man who was kicked Out by the Pharisees when Jesus Healed him, as recorded in the Gospels. As a matter of fact, I noticed a book title some years ago called “Jesus has Left the Building” and there’s even a place in Scripture that says “Come Out from Among Them” which speaks of Our Day in very clear terms. Obviously, He is not telling you to Leave Christianity but what the Institutional Church Scene has made it out to be, hey? Everything from a “Market Place” and “Den of Thieves” with those “Rip-Off Preachers” and Televangelists, to Very Unstable Behaviour, promoted by Luny Beguiling Preachers.
Let’s Fellowship on the HOME SCENE again like Jesus Himself Encouraged us to in the Gospels, when He Visited Families like “Mary and Matha’s” and the small Intimate Gatherings He had with the Twelve Men who Followed Him Closely (Disciples) hey? There is nothing wrong with that.
Pastors are so forbidding, and truth of the matter is, they don’t want to Lose their Incomes if Everyone gets Smart and goes the True Biblical Way about things, which we see in House Churches the Spirit of God is raising up for some Years now – much more HOMELY and COMELY.
Jesus Himself also said to His Disciples that He did Not want them to do things like the Gentiles (speaking of a Worldly Scene) “for their Rulers, Rule it Over them. I don’t want you to do things like them”……….
is that not Exactly what we see on the Local Church Scene since Constantine MESSED with Christianity, by making it a State Institution? Friends, he did that for One Reason Only. Not to Defend Christianity but to Weaken the Fibre of it, by Completely Changing the Way they Fellowshipped (that was their Strength)
And this Same Jesus gives us this Encouragement “Wherever Two or Three are Gathered in My Name, there I am in the Midst of Them” ………. Not some Fancy Building or some Rented Premises, right? Good living Christians have been so Brainwashed into thinking that’s the “Accepted Thing” Biblically speaking, when actually it’s Not. It’s far from it, as the Church Scene itself demonstrates. And Jesus Himself Instructs Us to “Judge it by it’s Fruit” so don’t be hesitant to See It for what IT IS. For good measure, He told us that “The Blind can’t Lead the Blind” and even the Old Testament mentions “Shepherds without Understanding”
Come on now, what are you putting up with all their Forbidding Nonsense for when they say you have to do This and you must do That? And basically “Help No, don’t go to those Home Churches, Rebels are there” those things are in fact “Ruling it Over You” like Politicians whatever, is it not? Of-course it is. The very thing Christ warned us about. Yes, the SYSTEM is Wrong. It’s NOT FAMILY!
And I will leave this Very Clear Message from Jesus “Those who hear My Words and Do Them, will be FREE Indeed”…….notice He said “His Words” NOT Preaches Words? Most of them have Very Little Respect for JESUS WORDS anymore – they so Misuse them OR don’t even bother with them – they’re so into False Teachings, some of them Heretical, False New Age Gospel, and Loving Themselves. And this is exactly why He distinctly told us “There will be Wolves acting Like Sheep – they are Hirelings” and He will say to Many of them “Depart from Me. Get out of My Sight. I don’t Know You!” when He Comes Again. Oh Yes, just like many other Bible Words have Come to Pass, they have a Cringeworthy Fate awaiting them.
It is time to Unlearn the Machine (the Local Church Scene) step out of the basilica, and Return to the Simple, Direct, Life-Giving Reality of Jesus. He LOVES You.
"The God who made the World and Everything in it is the Lord of Heaven and Earth and does Not Live in temples built by human hands." Those Words actually come from your Bible too, and Local Churches are either "Blinded to it" OR "Not Accepting it" so who are the Rebels, You OR those Pastors, with the "One Man Shows" or a "Bunch of Entertainers" and either way, you are supposed to Shut Up and Sit down, and Watch like Spectators, facing People's Backs, until you are dismissed to go Home until the following Week, with the Same. And incidentally, did you know that Sunday was named after the "Sun God" by Constantine? He wanted it that way.
And the New Testament in your Bibles says not to dispute over Days becaue Any Day and however many you choose to Worship Him is Acceptable in His Eyes (not a Jewish Sabbath either) so neither a Saturday or Sunday. It could be a Friday Evening per say OR a day or Evening when a few Friends of Family Members can make it (because of other commitments, be it working, whatever)
Some years ago, I fellowshipped with a really Nice Home Church (small group of Christians) and we Met together in Each-Other's Houses; Shared a Mealtime together around a Table; Prayed Together; Freely Shared Conversation and Scriptures together, Sang some Songs together "Acapella Style" just Naturally (No Music Needed) Sometimes we Met on different Days or Evenings. And we also had Occasional Picnics in Parks and Enjoyed the Surroundings. Jesus so desires for All of Us to be Happy in His Presence like that.
So I say COME, Come to Jesus in your hearts directly. Don’t bother yourself with “Church Stuff” anymore with all it’s Rules and Regs. Just Worship JESUS and Walk CLOSE to HIM.
Concern yourself Not about the Other anymore. All the Best to you and your Families!