Sunday's Passionate Plea

This is a cry from within the passion of my heart.

We have allowed our Doctrines and our Denominations
- to Dictate and Define who we are
rather than the Divine Deity of our Deliverer and Savior...

…I mean if you think about it…
We have re-defined ourselves
from WHO our Creator and our Re-Creator - HIS SON…
created us to be.

YES, we ARE Christians
- and that’s all find and dandy, that's who we should be…

…but now we’ve tagged ourselves as something all together separate…

..because now we’re not only Christians
but we’re also…

- Presbyterians

- Baptists

- Catholics

- Episcopal

- Methodists

- Calvinists

- Pentecostals

…and you name it
we’ve sub-categorized,
-or sub-cultured ourselves as it.

We’ve made ourselves
into all of these different organizations
- instead of the ONE moving,
breathing, and living organism
that God intended for us to be.

So if you seriously think about it…
- how much different are we
than the Pharisees, the Sadducees,
the Herodians, or the Sanhedrin?

And ths sad thing is,
all the while as we sit around
separating ourselves into our individual containers,

- debating and arguing
over whether you have to be
sprinkled, sprayed, or dunked…

…whether you should play a piano, guitars, drums
or play any instruments at all...

...have traditional services or contemporary services…

…and whether you should speak in tongues or not speak in tongues…

…there are people outside of our exclusive pew boxes
dying and headed for hell
because they can’t see the UNITY of God’s LOVE between us…

…let alone, feel it coming from us.

And I really believe we would see more people come to Christ
if we would stop trying to build our own little kingdoms on earth
and start living and acting as God’s Kingdom on earth…

…and the only way to achieve that
is to stop being self-centered
and get back to being Christ-centered!