The Church of Men Or The Church of God?

Allow me to pose a question bluntly: Do we build God's church with money or with love?

Jesus Christ's death on the cross was the result of a Father's overwhelming love for His lost children.

When we build God's church with money, we build it with pride. But if we build God's church with love, we build it with humility. Money builds building, love builds relationship! Money is of the world whilst love is of the Living Creator. God deals with love, man deals with money. God's solution is to apply love, men uses money.

I discovered God's mysterious truth not by any research work I did or through my intelligence rather the Holy Spirit showed it to me. Perhaps it is finally time to work, time to tell the world at large what's been hidden from them: Truth!

Christians are so hypocritical about their hunger for the truth yet we never love it when it confronted us. I was always wondering whether God's truth is elusive of us or perhaps we were evasive of it.

Billions of Christians goes to a kind of service each week to listen to sermons supposedly interpreted to be messages God spoke through men. Missionaries traveled throughout the world to built Churches to bring people together to listen to them preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Saviour, the only begotten Son of the Living God who came to die on the cross, bringing hope to those who chose to trust Him to forgive all their wrong doings and hoped to be reconciled to the Creator, the heavenly Father someday. This could be how the Church was born.

From a simple commandment by our Saviour to go preach about Him, events took a dramatic change throughout the centuries. Church became a kind of idol of men. Instead of caring, loving people and building people to draw them nearer to the Father, men now directed their focus to their Church, a building. Hmm..the deception in misconception...the alluring lies of the Devil crept slowly into us. The building which is a man's church slowly replaces God's church, the people.

As men's church grew bigger and richer, God's church shrink smaller and poorer.

The distraction draws our concern for people to our pride to protect the building. God's church which is a living body comprising of God's children is now non living and consist of bricks. The children of the Living Creator is now nothing more than just blocks of bricks. The welfare of God's children are neglected while importance and attention were directed at the building.

Instead of love, care, kindness, patience, and all the giftings of the Holy Spirit to build a church which is people, pride, selfishness and money replaces the goodness of God to build men's church which is a building.

Without love which is an essence of God, the Father in Jesus Christ our Lord, its impossible to build God's church which is people, created out of His own hands. And how do we express love? By spoken words or spoken words accompanied by deeds?

The contemporary church of men today is constructed with money rather than love.

I wished to echo this statement strongly: Building God's church which is people demand every essence of God's goodness. Without the demonstrations of Jesus Christ humility, love, self control, kindness, forgiveness and the help of the Holy Spirit, its absolutely impossible to bring God's lost children back into His loving embrace.

It's just not about a building! Its about a partnership with Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit to help our Creator, heavenly Father realized His will, to bring salvation to men. Its about overcoming the evil world with God's goodness. Its about overcoming darkness with His light. Its about overcoming deceptions and lies with God's truth.

Jesus' death at Calvary brought hope to God's lost children that someday He shall returned to reconcile those who confessed Him as the Saviour, knitting every believer into His own body, to form the Church of the Living God.

How do you perceived God's Church to be? Do you have the exclusive truth of God, setting you free from lies and deception?

Do you serve God by going to a church that is a building or a church that is God's lost children? When going to a church that is a building, are the services you rendered directed to men or to God?

I wonder which act will please God, the Father?

In conclusion, I can hear many of you murmuring whether I am suggesting that the Church which is a building should not be built? No! I am writing about God's truth which is to care and love after those He has redeemed by the blood of His precious Son, our Saviour Jesus! I am suggesting that people should be building God's church which are people first. The church which we spent millions building, are there any poor, hungry, sick, homeless, in it? Who are looking after these people? Who are caring for them? Any concern about them? God's children must be attended first because they were created by the Creator's own hands and the Father wants each one back into His own loving arms someday!

The Father looked down from His heavenly throne grieved because while millions are spent building a church which is a building, none was spared building the lives of His church, which are His children, created out of His own hands!

God says, " I want mercy, not sacrifices! "