Man's Way or God's Way, You Choose

Pertaining to how the modern church operates in this time of apostasy.

The disobedience against God is in the fact that there are denominations at all. Many people who are leaders in churches are not even saved, they are seminary graduates who have been trained a certain way and depend on that training instead of the Holy Spirit. Others are born-again but have become brain-washed by the seminaries and the culture.

1 Corinthians 3:1-9 "3 And I, brothers and sisters, could not speak to you as spiritual people, but only as fleshly, as to infants in Christ.

2 I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to consume it. But even now you are not yet able,

3 for you are still fleshly. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking like ordinary people? 4 For when one person says, “I am with Paul,” and another, “I am with Apollos,” are you not ordinary people?

5 What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave opportunity to each one.

6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth.

7 So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth.

8 Now the one who plants and the one who waters are one; but each will receive his own [c]reward according to his own labor.

9 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building."

The entire one-man-paid-pastor system with its traditions and buildings is not Biblical. If you study the way the first century church operated you would see that man thought they could do better than what God commanded and began to add traditions and rules God never commanded.

1 Corinthians 14:26-33

"26 What is the outcome then, brothers and sisters? When you assemble, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. All things are to be done for edification. 27 If anyone speaks in a tongue, it must be by two or at the most three, and each one in turn, and one is to interpret;

28 but if there is no interpreter, he is to keep silent in church; and have him speak to himself and to God.

29 Have two or three prophets speak, and have the others pass judgment.

30 But if a revelation is made to another who is seated, then the first one is to keep silent.

31 For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all may be exhorted;

32 and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets;

33 for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace."

Some born-again believers are leaving the institutional churches based on man's rules and ideas to embrace God's model for meeting together. Perhaps in these last days there are those whose eyes are being opened and are being freed from the cultural pressure to do things man's ways.