For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. Dt. 4:24
Thoughts provoked by, "So You Don't Want To Go To Church Anymore" by Wayne Jacobsen & Dave Coleman -- recommended reading.
God has been renewing my understanding of what His perspective is.
I’ve learned that the words “jealous” and “zealous” in the Bible are actually the same word in the original language. God was so jealous/zealous for Israel that He did what today would be labeled “crimes against humanity” as He wiped out nations – committed genocide in order to preserve His plan of salvation and the seed of our Messiah.
He’s no less jealous/zealous today for us; His Bride, His Children; and I believe the institutional church is repugnant to Him.
This book and other articles and VLOGs address what men are seeing as problems with the IC, but I don’t see an understanding of how God sees it.
Until very recently, I also was in the camp of not really giving input to someone struggling with the decision to come out of the IC, except to encourage them to seek the Lord for themselves. With a new understanding of God’s zeal and His hatred for the dead religion of the IC that separates and destroys His children, I’m now of the attitude of exhorting whomever, to come out and “he who has ears to hear, let him hear”. I’m at a point that I think that’s God’s heart.
I’m thinking of the character, Bryce, in the book. I don’t think there is an understanding that God views the IC as a total abomination.
God has been renewing my understanding of what His perspective is.
I’ve learned that the words “jealous” and “zealous” in the Bible are actually the same word in the original language. God was so jealous/zealous for Israel that He did what today would be labeled “crimes against humanity” as He wiped out nations – committed genocide in order to preserve His plan of salvation and the seed of our Messiah.
He’s no less jealous/zealous today for us; His Bride, His Children; and I believe the institutional church is repugnant to Him.
This book and other articles and VLOGs address what men are seeing as problems with the IC, but I don’t see an understanding of how God sees it.
Until very recently, I also was in the camp of not really giving input to someone struggling with the decision to come out of the IC, except to encourage them to seek the Lord for themselves. With a new understanding of God’s zeal and His hatred for the dead religion of the IC that separates and destroys His children, I’m now of the attitude of exhorting whomever, to come out and “he who has ears to hear, let him hear”. I’m at a point that I think that’s God’s heart.
I’m thinking of the character, Bryce, in the book. I don’t think there is an understanding that God views the IC as a total abomination.
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