The Pulpit of Fear

  What makes your version of church better than the 15 other churches on your block? Why are you not united with them or in submission to them? Are we not commanded to love, serve and prefer one anther? Or do you define our common unity only in terms of submission to you? Is your calling so much greater than God’s call on others? Are you perhaps rebellious, proud and unaccountable? As long as you are unwilling to be accountable and bring along side men of equal strength, not as subordinates, but as co- equal, co-laborers, then fear is your master and not love, demons control you and not Christ. Those controlled by fear and pride are not worthy to lead God's people. Fear in the heart of a slave makes him cower, but fear in the heart of a ruler causes nations to stagger. Fear in the pew makes the naïve to stumble, but fear in the pulpit leads a multitude astray. The greatest divisive force within the body of Christ is not the rogue prophet, but the territorial Pastor whose exclusive mindset and controlling doctrines reinforce the divisions which already exist.  Why am I so adamantly opposed to monarch style institutional leaders? It is because these so -called leaders who ought to exemplify Christ's selflessness are motivated by fear and not love! God is love! Fear is the antithesis of His Love and comes from the spirit of Antichrist! Fear and doubt have no place in the kingdom of God, and should not be set forth as examples to the flock! The dying world beholds our dysfunction, our submission to vain traditions imposed by men. They’ve heard the promise of freedom in Christ, but see ditches full of blind men, and being witness to our hypocrisy determine, “If that's what being a Christian is, I want no part of it.” Their objections are not so much with Jesus, but the gross misrepresentations of those who claim to serve Him.