The sharp end of the stick where moving away from the institutional expressions of church are concerned must be about how it affects your relationship with Jesus. Firstly we need to understand what it is to elect Christ as the true Lord of your life. We need to get rid of all the things we buy into that make us decentralised on God. I know a Pastor who has the tag line of his church 'Christ centred' yet he dominates the stage and is constantly filling the peoples ears with his product and his own 'wisdom' I believe we can help each other out in life but NEVER to take any percentage of the attention off the living source Jesus. Sadly many men are church icons, telling the congregations that they are their disciples or at least living this principle out.
A relationship with God is something we should all be working towards being unfettered. Reliance's, scaffolding, life support systems all exist in the church and work towards us becoming more plugged into the dust. We need to be plugged into our heavenly source: Jesus and that is an amazing thing. We begin to see who we really are in the light of his love, we experience his first hand love as we draw upon him, not a sermon, to sustain us in times of need. We rejoice even in hard times because it is these that excavate the soul to contain more of God's Spirit. We can nurture the raw faith it takes to truly trust in that which is unseen. Gone are the pseudo-faith claims that are really business plans. Gone are the hope in some unseen cloud to win the neighbours when we really need to be light and life. We key into the realities of supernatural ordinariness instead of living from goose-bump to goose-bump.
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