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 Focussed On Symptoms

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Matthew 23:23
I get in trouble a lot over one simple statement; but no truer words were ever spoken: Most theology today is like giving someone an aspirin for their headache, when a tumor is eating away @ their brain. We focus on symptoms; but never deal with the disease behind the symptoms. The problem is, while we may get rid of the immediate symptoms, new symptoms crop up all the time. A funny thing happens when the new life on the inside is allowed to influence the old life on the outside; we begin to look beyond the things we do to see why we act that way. We begin to look beyond the outward symptoms to see the real disease underneath. Cut out the cancer & the symptoms leave too. Our teaching is far too shallow for the most part to truly impact anyone's life. We need to focus our teaching on helping people to establish a real & vital relationship with God where God can begin to work on their lives, getting to the heart of the problem. We need the ministry of God's light in our churches, revealing the true state of the lives of believers gathered there. I knew a holiness pastor who was having an affair with a woman in his church half his age. This went on for 8 years before it all came out into the open. This congregation claimed to be born again & spirit filled. This kind of thing doesn't happen when God's Spirit is working in a church. There was a charismatic evangelist holding meetings for years who was a practicing homosexual. He persuaded young men in congregations where he ministered to run off with him. he then took them across state lines, turned them out, & sold them into homosexual slavery. That's not the Spirit of God. We need a visitation from on high today; not one that makes us feel good, but one that reveals the very real underlying problems in our lives that causes sins like these to go undetected in our churches.
Wayne
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