Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Don't go to Church...

BRETHREN, you are the temple of the living God; as God said, "I will live in them and move among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Therefore come out from them, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch nothing unclean; then I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty."
Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, and make holiness perfect in the fear of God.

Don't only go...Rather let’s BE  the church.  A church is an  ek-klesia, a called out assembly. We are called to be separated in our hearts from  desires to the world, unto  Christ.  As the Lord said,  “they are not of  the world even as I am not of the world (ek- tou  kosmou). The ek-klesia  is called ek- from-  tou  kosmou- the world.  When  we do this we are promised  an intimacy with God,” I will be a father unto you...” Not that God isn’t our Father,  but when  we run to His embrace we are no longer like the prodigal, dead to Him.

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