DEMOCRACY OF CHURCHES

Today will always be different from yesterday and tomorrow, and so, it should not change the essence and purpose of our creation.

Taking a deeper look into the church today and how it's been run, i think it's going farther away from the purpose for which God meant it to be.

Does the so called civilisation lead us ethically forward or backward? Of course i do not condemn both advance in human knowledge and achievement, but it must be faced that a great deal of ingenuity of genius has led man away from God rather than to him. It is not so, that the restlessness of the creature urge is particularly susceptible to self will, fostering aims and ideals which are so far from nurturing a divine discontent that leads on to humanly edifying accomplishments.

For instance the kind of songs we sing in churches today are not helping or in anyway ministering to the congregation. Secular songs are being adopted and sang in churches as sacred songs and we all jubilate and smile thinking we'r worshipping the Most high.

The welfarism aspect is nothing, compared to how it's laid down in the Bible. Churches of today dont even care about how their members live. All we get to understand is ministry A is running to catch up with ministry B, chasing wealth and popularity forgetting the purpose of the church.

We see ministries with higher institution making their institution fees so high that a common man cannot afford. When their members comprises of all human standard.

It is in this generation we see tribal segregation in churches, if you are not a member of a particular congregation, you cant get job at a particular firm. We see certain ethnic group attending a particular church, while some congregation see themselves as the supreme compared to others, and nobody is doing anything about it

We build glorious cathedrals to the glory of God, but they are mostly for our own pleasure, especially when we turn them into centres for tourists attraction...

If you can go down memory lane in the times of the missionary, these people gave their all, they left their comfort, schooling was free, they saw to the welfare of the people in their care.

Today it's totally different, sheperds of churches amass wealth for their own pocket, while the sheep are lacking and not well nurtured.

Study the life of paul and peter and see how they livee their lives as servant leaders.
Even our role model, Jesus Christ who has access to everything yet own nothing, the church which ought to play a major role in the lives of the people of the world is now a rally competition between her colleagues.

I give thanks to God because He is there for these people who have nothing and nobody to look up to even when the churches where they worship don't have much to offer them.

For those that have lost hope... I pray God visit you again.

Am not judging only God can, am writing my mind and i will write more.

The church we have today is democracy by herself, for herself, and not for her people.

Written by
Marshall Dare