I am on vacation right now, so blogging will be seldom and short.
During my morning jog, I though about Tom Hanks in the movie Terminal and realized that coming from a church tradition where there are significant flaws can be like this guy stuck in the terminal.
Stuck in limbo between "home" and some place else. Can't go home because of the fighting and dysfunction, but no place else is home.
Termainl is a great title because it is the place he is in and a potential prophecy. Is churchianity terminal?
3 comments:
That is thought-provoking and as it is one of the movies I have seen (as opposed to the multitudes I haven't), I think that you have a good point there.
I just read through your series so far and see that Father is doing a good work in you. I look at it more as He is getting the Redeemed out of religion or the religious system. It is good when we question what is going on in the "church." It is good when we start wanting to know the source of what we believe and then we search the scriptures as the Bereans were commended for doing to see if what we have been taught is true. I can tell you that Father is shaking His people and it is good. Sometimes you almost feel like you are losing your faith, but what you end up with is the truth and start seeing as He does.
The biggest problem with coming out of churchianity, the "church," or more basically religion is that we tend to just start another religious system. Our Father wants relationship. He wants reality. He wants truth. He wants us to love Him and to walk in His love. He doesn't like religion and there is lots of that, I can tell you after 31 years as a redeemed person and being in the "system." I have not spent most of my life in just one place so have a pretty clear idea of how similar the system is in its many different expressions.
There are many who haven't "bowed the knee to Baal" and we are not alone in the work He is doing in us. It is encouraging to run across those who are responding to His working in them and to His voice "Come out of her my people."
Shalom,
Serena
Serena, thanks for the come back. We must be in the church but not of the church. Hmmm, next blog post? Yes, it will be my next blog post.
I like your focus on the father and what he wants.
That is thought-provoking and as it is one of the movies I have seen (as opposed to the multitudes I haven't), I think that you have a good point there.
I just read through your series so far and see that Father is doing a good work in you. I look at it more as He is getting the Redeemed out of religion or the religious system. It is good when we question what is going on in the "church." It is good when we start wanting to know the source of what we believe and then we search the scriptures as the Bereans were commended for doing to see if what we have been taught is true. I can tell you that Father is shaking His people and it is good. Sometimes you almost feel like you are losing your faith, but what you end up with is the truth and start seeing as He does.
The biggest problem with coming out of churchianity, the "church," or more basically religion is that we tend to just start another religious system. Our Father wants relationship. He wants reality. He wants truth. He wants us to love Him and to walk in His love. He doesn't like religion and there is lots of that, I can tell you after 31 years as a redeemed person and being in the "system." I have not spent most of my life in just one place so have a pretty clear idea of how similar the system is in its many different expressions.
There are many who haven't "bowed the knee to Baal" and we are not alone in the work He is doing in us. It is encouraging to run across those who are responding to His working in them and to His voice "Come out of her my people."
Shalom,
Serena
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