One of the patterns we have, as groups, is that the parasitical, chattering class go where the money is. If the church is rich and powerful, they will try to enter it and they will try to destroy it. They will try to bring in codes of conduct, and they will try to move the agenda from what the organization is about to social activism. In the church, this Unitarian convergence leads to congregations dying.
We forget that we don’t own the church. We are like my cat, who considers the computer a nice warm stand. And thinks I pay the rent with cat food.
The Church belongs to Christ. He is the head: he is the source. And he does not care about our wealth. He cares about our faithfulness. In a time when tolerance and love are being used as a club to get churches to go apostate and converge with the progressive agenda, we need to recall that Christ is a King over the church, and he needs no parliament nor congress. We are his hands and feet, and e do not vote on what we believe.
Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! Without us you have become kings! And would that you did reign, so that we might share the rule with you! For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men. We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and buffeted and homeless, and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.
I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. I urge you, then, be imitators of me. That is why I sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church. Some are arrogant, as though I were not coming to you. But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out not the talk of these arrogant people but their power. For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power.
(1 Corinthians 4:8-20 ESV)
We do not vote, for we are fallen, and we will vote for the errors of this age.
The apostles were charged with faithfully teaching as Christ did. They had been trained by Christ for three years. They had been eyewitnesses to his death and resurrection. Paul, who wrote this, was converted directly by a vision and his ministry to the gentiles was approved by the very same apostles, who also certify that his letters are worthwhile.
And Paul sent the man he had trained, either with the letter or before the letter arrived, to start reminding the Corinthian church to return to putting their confidence in Christ and Christ alone.
For your wealth will not save you. Nor will virtue. Much less virtue signalling. Looking for the approval of others (which is what voting, in the end, is) leads to errors. Democracy is a bad form of government: a republic is somewhat better, but all other forms, historically, have been worse.
But we have Christ and his spirit. By the words of Christ we believe. By the Spirit of God we live. And our churches may be full of humans, but they are not ruled by this world, but should be part of the world to come: as Christ said, his kingdom is not of this world.
The elite want us to forget this, and if we do so, we put our theology, our morals and our soul in peril.
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