YOU NEED TO FIND A NEW FELLOWSHIP IF...
We are compelled to START a new fellowship (OR FIND ONE) in the near Northwest Suburban Chicago area (Des Plaines, Mt. Prospect, Niles, Northwestern Chicago, around O'Hare, etc.) If you long to worship Jesus in Spirit and in Truth, please contact us by email: spirittruth@wowway.com. We will contact you!
WHERE THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS THERE IS LIBERTY...TRUTH...GRACE...LOVE...AND ABOVE ALL- HIS PRESENCE!
A Call To the HOLY REMNANT CHURCH: the LORD is calling you to come OUT of your current assembly or wilderness walk if you...
...are yearning for a fellowship of believers that is lovingly abandoned to Jesus Christ- who long to FULLY know HIM and obey His word and who worship Jesus, in Spirit and in truth (and this is not present in your current church).
...believe in the full gospel of Jesus and are famished for the meat (deeper revelation) of God's word.
...Are grieving over the spiritual stagnation of your church, the compromise of the Gospel and absorption and acceptance of worldliness and materialism in the church and a bowing (idolatry) to the false god of affluence.
...Are desiring to experience God's presence, peace, grace and love in a fellowship of deeply devoted followers where the preaching of the revealed word, draws people to a loving abandon for Jesus and abiding in Him. Where proclamation of God’s word rightly divides the sheep from the goats and brings all to repentance and revival. (The goats of course are welcome but are lovingly called to repentance or will leave as they fall under spiritual conviction and confrontation).
...are deeply concerned
about the spiritual/ biblical shallowness or (possibly) the misguided "agendas" of your current church and the leadership‘s indulgence into psychology based rhetoric instead of applying and ministering the truth of God‘s word.
...Are repulsed by the current ungodliness found in many hyper "Charismatic" and formerly Pentecostal churches who now embrace apostate, "health and wealth," name-it-and-claim-it," Faith Movement doctrines (doctrines of demons) OR as a result of those abuses, have swung like a pendulum in the other direction and have spiritually abdicated (fallen away from) Biblical orthodoxy and no longer embrace the preaching of the full gospel of Jesus Christ, including the Baptism in the Holy Spirit.
[Some have embraced a “New Age christ", that is not the Christ of the Bible at all. MANY formerly obedient Christians have completely swallowed the counterfeit religious 'positivism', that was introduced by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and Robert Shuller (both Freemason cult members) and now dominates the pop, "seeker" movements. It brainwashes people into believing that any kind of "judgment" making, is evil. They teach an unBiblical type of "tolerance" that demands that there be peace and "unity" at all costs in the church, when we are called to rightly divide truth from error and reject false teachings. They wrongly strive not to offend anyone with the Truth of the Gospel and shun those who do. They are especially offended by God's Word! God's Word DOES offend the flesh... IT'S SUPPOSED TO BRING CONVICTION LEADING TO REPENTANCE! "Seeker" churches purposely avoid using very much scripture for fear of turning off "seekers." Biblical and spiritual discernment is nearly dead in most of those churches and they have been deceived! Other churches project and proclaim a twisted interpretation of the Old Testament doctrine of “tithing” 10% of your “gross” to the church. Money, finances and personal “success,” are major themes and idols in these fallen churches and believers.]
....Are disgusted with the fixation and idolization of “signs and wonders,” in place of the godly preoccupation of abiding in Christ and His word. Many of these counterfeit revival churches have substituted hype, methods, and emotion for sincerity, humility, love and authentic faith. Many have created a different gospel, and preach a different kind of “faith“ than the faith that we are to place IN God alone. Some of these adepts are telling people to “put their faith in faith“ instead of IN Jesus Christ! (God does still heal and perform signs and wonders, but too many ministries have stagnated spiritually because they seek the manifestation instead of the Manifestor...they seek the “blessing” instead of the Blessed One! Too many Charismatic ministries are fixated on the gifts, particularly an ungodly emphasis on “tongues,” which is NOT the only evidence as having been baptized in the Spirit).
...Disagree with the unbiblical forms of unbalanced and ungodly church leadership that now prevails in many churches. Including the over-empowerment and idolization of many head pastors who seem to think that the church exists mostly for themselves- for the purpose of "showcasing" their talents and gifts. Building up the church (edification) is the complete opposite of validating the ego, and recognizing “self-importance.“ (In many churches, ‘edification’ and the validation of “ego” (the flesh) have become synonomous. Many Pentecostal, Evangelical, and Charismatic (PEC) ministries have been deceived by psychologists into preaching a different “gospel” and about the need for having “self worth.” Our “worth” lies only in the Person of Jesus Christ, and His worth is obtained by DYING to “self” being buried with Him spiritually and resurrected in His image...JESUS IS OUR WORTH! We don’t need any more “worth” than Him! We need to die to all self-centered “worth“ and psycho-babble. It is only when we begin to die to self that we can truly begin to live in peace and experience His abundant life!) Pastors are supposed to be humble servant-leader examples, not “stars,” who are above their congregation. An “imperial” pastorate has arisen in many churches that is the antithesis to the archetype of humble Christian shepherd found in the Bible. Many church leaders have grown spiritually fat, proud and lazy. Other pastors spin their wheels on projects and private agendas that only wear themselves out and don’t glorify God. Very few are obeying what Jesus said was necessary in order to follow Him; to crucify their flesh, take up their cross DAILY and follow Jesus. Instead many are accepting dangerous, demonic doctrines that indulge the flesh and war against the Spirit and the Word.
...Feel that the church has become a house of entertainment rather than a house of worship. (Many are bowing to the flesh that wants to be entertained rather than feasting on the riches of God’s word and partaking of true spiritual drink)
...Long for the church that nurtures spiritual growth and maturity through Biblical discipleship, while stirring the spiritual gifts that God has given each believer so that the church is properly built up (edified). [There is far too much unbalanced, pastor-centric "pastoring" going on today. A major calling of the pastor is to exhort the body to minister to itself and help to raise up a "holy priesthood," to which we are ALL called. The spiritual gifts are NOT all centered in the pastor or leadership, God can speak and work through any vessel that HE chooses. Of course, as an undershepherd tends to the sheep's needs, the role of the pastor is to preach, teach, disciple, and ALSO to facilitate and nurture individual spiritual growth and stir up the gifts in GOD'S sheep. The pastor MUST be a loving, people person, whose major desire is to see Jesus lifted up and glorified in each person. This is NOT a call for pastors to “validate” every selfishly ambitious person by indulging their vain imagination or selfish ambitions, which also plagues the church. This is a call to use biblically based, spiritual discernment to groom those who are called to ministry (everyone in Christ is called to some ministry, but should only after they have some maturity in Christ!) and who show the spiritual maturity and humility to serve God‘s people.]
...Are longing to be equally yoked with believers who live in the word and seek God's face (His Presence) and don't idolize or dwell on any one gift, nor believe that Christians are less "successful" Christians if they are not "blessed" with money and worldly favor. [You repudiate the idols (materialism) of this world or at least struggle against assimilating worldly ideals (idols) You strive not to judge people by their appearance or by their “status“ in this life].
...Are longing to have a relationship with other believers who don't just talk about God's love but who also walk in it, who truly put others first and who follow the golden rule towards ALL people.
There is no "perfect church" but this call to form a new fellowship, is born out of desperation for Jesus, adherance to His word and a call from Him to do so. The love of Christ compels us to seek out fellowship with others to whom we can be equally yoked. What is happening in many churches is not acceptable to our Holy God and so He is calling out the remnant that truly seeks to worship Him in Spirit and in truth. The love of many churchgoers has "waxed cold," and love is supposed to be the major earmark of the Lord's followers. A Christian must have a passionate love for Jesus and radiates His love to others. That love can and must be renewed DAILY.
Many different "gospels" are being preached and the church is being hamstrung by doctrines of demons that prevent many a preacher from openly identifying the apostasy that is rampant in evangelical and charismatic circles these days. A false revival is raging, full of false prophecy, false teaching and false wonders, just as Jesus warned us in Matthew 24. Many formerly discerning believers many who once received the Baptism in the Holy Ghost, are now also adhering to doctrines of demons and are nearly perfectly deceived (I‘m not saying that they‘ve lost their salvation, unless they were never truly saved). A loving church preaches the truth in love. It doesn't turn a blind eye to dangerous teaching, no matter how "popular" it has become. The Lord warned us explicitly about false prophets that would arise in the last days and deceive, if possible, even "God's elect." I proclaim to you that THAT, is exactly what is now happening through the preaching of many apostate, "Faith Movement" advocates (I won't call them preachers). The Bible also says to MARK them who preach a different Gospel and who cause divisions among us. It is not “division” to call the church to repentance and away from weak or apostate preaching and teaching that now prevails in many pulpits. The spirit of the Antichrist is about to overwhelm our world and the church is simultaneously losing her saltiness and her light. Many Christians have been brainwashed (deceived) into believing that to "judge" at all, is a most heinous sin. That is the main deception that Satan is now using to defuse and ruin the church. WE MUST ALL USE RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT AS CHRIST HAS COMMANDED US or else the church will accept ANYTHING that calls itself “gospel” when it may be of the devil himself. This false projection of "not judging" other ministries or people is the spiritual version of political correctness. It is the very spirit of Antichrist, right in our midst! No, we mustn't CONDEMN anyone, BUT we MUST judge right from wrong and holy from unholy or we will fall privy to EVERY possible wind of deception. We must not project our religious expectations onto non-Christians and we must not be legalistic or ungracious in the way in which we share this message with anyone but it must be shared. It is quite clear that a massive falling away from the fundamental truths (and application thereof) of the Bible and a grievous watering down of the word, (compromise) is rampant. "Intolerance," is the cry of the day toward all that preach the authentic word in Spirit and in truth and many urban churches have bowed to political correctness in a move to become more socially "acceptable." All that they are doing is COMPROMISING the precious word of God and their own souls.
One of the last churches that I was in is led by a man who used to be in the Faith movement but who saw the extreme dangers and abuses in that movement and came out. But what he did, was to throw out the baby with the bath water. He has grown allergic to any movement of the Spirit and He seeks to constantly control and moderate anything that reminds him of those days of abuse. In turn, he has secretly moved his church away from the deeper revelations of God’s word, while refuting the practice of the spiritual gifts in “his” church. He instead has been captured by the trappings and “numbers” game produced by another apostate movement known as the “seeker” movement, as started by Willow Creek Community Church and Pastor Bill Hybels. The “pastor” of the church that I attended shortly, has such poor discernment and biblical grounding (he is not even called to be in his position, but rather that of a worship leader, he is blinded by ambition and pride) that he has merely fallen for another deception that panders to another form of idolatry that has infected the church, an idol of IMAGE, POPULARITY, AND NUMBERS. I was led by God, to share my discernments with him and he immediately demonized me in his church. (a few years after this writing, that man fell into debauchery but still pastors that church!) This type of phoniness produces shallow, worldly, unempowered Christians who “have a FORM of godliness” but who “deny the power therof.” These kinds of hollow “Christians” bow to these idols and have lost their first love for Jesus, but they continue on in soulish worship that makes them feel good about themselves. They sing songs about Jesus but there is very little sincerity, nor the presence of the Holy Spirit, as they attempt to worship God with ONLY their soulish intellect and their emotions. (worship must first come from a sincere heart that has responded to the Holy Spirit’s call and the Spirit then touches and anoints [enables] the worshiper to enter into God’s presence. An unclean, and wrongly motivated person, cannot enter into authentic, spiritual worship, which can be very emotional and expressive [David danced before the Ark].
The prophetic signs of the times that we find ourselves in indicates that the Rapture of the Church cannot be far off. But since many are moving away from long held orthodox beliefs about the Rapture and His Second Coming in glory, many are also falling away from those precious doctrines. In fact, the word "doctrine" itself, has become a dirty word in many churches that were once biblically sound but who now espouse certain "New Age" (witchcraft) beliefs that are more "hip," "trendy," and "compatible" for "modern" believers (this includes their terrible New Age Bible versions like the “NIV” that adds over 200,000 words to the original manuscript and changes the meaning of thousands of words and verses).
Some in the "New Wave" apostolic/ prophetic movement believe that "God is doing a new thing," and have taken license to summarily throw out all of the wonderful hymns and forms of worship that have been acceptable to God for ages (as long as it hasn't become dead religious ritual). These New Wave adepts take license to spew all sorts of mindless religious garbage and expect their crowds to receive it all as "fresh prophetic word." All this, often accompanied by a raucous, pounding, rock and roll band playing in the background. Extreme license is taken and so is your money! Yes, the spiritual gifts still operate through holy vessels and God DOES still speak to His remnant church, through His authentic prophets and teachers who preach the authentic word of God with authentic interpretation. DON'T FALL FOR THE COUNTERFEIT! THE REAL WORD OF GOD CONVICTS AND BLESSES, (it cuts both ways) IF YOU ARE ABLE TO RECEIVE IT.
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