For many decades I was involved in this ‘thing called church’, (and no, I wasn’t run off, nor did I leave mad,) and with my involvement I saw many, many folks going through the motions, but were not dedicated to the things of God, but instead, their dedication was directed towards tradition, religion, their denomination, appeasing themselves, and/or the building they met in. I realize there are more than several sincere folks that want to learn and grow in our Lord, and I also realize that many are stifled by the traditions of playing church.
When a platform, a doctrine, the services themselves, the same-o rituals with the same formalities are done day after day, week after week, and has been done this same way for a century or more, we have then fallen into the category of ‘playing church. And what astonishes me the most, is that so many of these sincere folks think it’s pleasing to God.
I’ve seen so much competition between one denomination with the other, it has even gotten to the point of showing off their parking lots, stained glass windows, attendance rates, the education of their pastors, and many other carnal facades, that their ego are so caught up in their fleshly deeds, that God is understandably pushed to the side.
Just because a certain religious way has been done for eons, doesn’t make it necessarily the right way. Just because it’s more familiar, and has a strong backing from the past, cannot make these formalities more than what they are; the incorporations of the mind of carnal man.
God is alive, He’s moving, seldom coming in the same door twice, He’s a mystery than pleads for His people to worship Him in Spirit and Truth. His Grace has tolerated us thus far, and He is merciful, but how long can His people, that are called by His name, remain in the same-o rhetoric that is going nowhere? For if it was changing people lives, bringing many into the Truth, then why have so many fallen away, and now can’t understand that going to this thing called ‘church’ is a substitute for the worship of our Lord. These ‘things’ are counterfeits.
