In the gospel it is written that only once Jesus broke out and reacted violently: not against his persecutors, not against Pagans, but against the merchants who were selling in the temple of God, just few days before being crucified. What do you think he should do now when his churches are like supermarkets and the supermarkets are like our churches? Should He destroy both of them?
2006-12-02 08:38:03 · 6 answers · asked by etcetera 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
We have the option to do as He also did. He said let them alone. They are blind leading the blind and they'll both fall in the ditch. He also said the people "love it to be so". He let the wheat and tares grow together until judgment day. He also left their fellowship and went to the Gentiles, the common poor people "who heard him gladly" out in the countryside in his open-air church. He taught in homes, synagogues and everywhere. The temple of God's spirit should be everywhere that we go. He did destroy the Jerusalem Temple exactly the hour he died on the cross at the time of the evening sacrifice. They are still hoping to rebuild.
2006-12-02 08:44:04 · answer #1 · answered by Lovin' Mary's Lamb 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The church has no resemblance to the church Jesus started. To start with people had all things in common therefore there was no need to buy or sell anything. No one had to market tapes, or Bibles, or nick nacks with Bible words on them. People lived together in the same house or group of houses as a community of believers. We have had some great Christian Communities of believers in the past. It is time to repent and go back to being the kind of a church Jesus showed us how to be. To start with we are a "royal priesthood" and not a hierachy. We have the responsibility to be filled with the Spirit and operate in the Spirit and not in the flesh. That is why are churches are like social clubs where we pay 10% of our income to support it instead of what Jesus prescribed which is to share all we are and all we have and to walk as He walked, doing what He did and winning the world to Christ, not with programs but with power. I believe there will be a revival in which this transformation will take place. There are many prophesies about it. I reccommend T S Gibson, a prophet for our times. He says that God's power will return to the truly local church. He also says if there are no miracles and great signs being performed the ministry is not right with God. Check him out.
2006-12-02 17:08:13 · answer #2 · answered by cathyhewed1946 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Judgment will come but it is for God to do... Yes there is a lot of merchandising going on in what is supposed to be God's house of worship but at the same time these kinds of places aren't really God's house anyway, they're just religious money-making schemes to use people's fear of eternal hell and damnation their tool for millions... It works too... Look at some of the million dollar churches out there and people right around the corners are sleeping in the streets and going to bed hungry and so on and so on.... As Christians, we are to give to those less fortunate than us not give to those to make a fortune
2006-12-02 16:48:02 · answer #3 · answered by john316tdh 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and stop all these pagan practices. Like Jesus, and Christianity.
2006-12-02 16:42:07 · answer #4 · answered by flip4449 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
All of us who don't go to Mega-churches already know the answer to this.
2006-12-02 16:41:13 · answer #5 · answered by Mr. Bad Day 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He will.
Peace :)
2006-12-02 16:42:08 · answer #6 · answered by rezany 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋