God's Church Model

God's church model is for everyone in the church to participate in the needs of those in the congregation. Sadly the pew people expect the pulpit people to do all the work because he is being paid.

There is far more to the paid-pastor problem than just receiving a paycheck, the health of the congregation is at stake.

When the paid pastor is expected to "know all" they are also expected to "do all", leaving a lazy pew person sitting in the pew never seeing or interacting with the others in the congregation.

Pew people are just as capable of counseling, serving, and helping as anyone else, as long as they are spiritually minded and well-read in the Word of God.

The problem in our day is that most pew people do not read their Bibles let alone know it well. They depend almost entirely on the pulpit person to do their thinking and work for them.

Pew people tend to be lazy, coming into the gathering once a week and never seeing anyone in the congregation during the week. They give money for others to do the work but will not work themselves to be a blessing to the others in the congregation.

All believers are called to teach, help and provide for the poor as led by the Holy Spirit. Money is needed at times for those who help to have the resources they need to do that help, but it is not a salary and not only a tiny group who do all the work of caring for the brethren.

Acts 4:32 "32 And the congregation of those who believed were of one heart and soul; and not one of them [b]claimed that anything belonging to him was his own, but all things were common property to them."

No one compelled others to provide for others, the believers saw a need and met it out of their own provisions. Each person gave as they were led by the Holy Spirit and were only commanded by God to provide NEEDS. If they gave more than a need it was up to them not an organized driving force of leaders telling others what to give.

Remember this phrase, it will help you when you are pressured to do anything within the church; "as led by the Holy Spirit." And, the giving was in secret without anyone else being told what was done.

There was no hierarchy monitoring our giving or compelling us to do what others thought we should do.

Acts 2:44-46 "…44 All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 Selling their possessions and goods, they shared with anyone who was in need. 46 With one accord they continued to meet daily in the temple courts and to break bread from house to house, sharing their meals with gladness and sincerity of heart,…"

The believers did not live communally necessarily but they were aware of the needs of others and gave as they were led by God to give. They shared what God had given them, but it was not always money, it was goods and services.

Remember this too, there were no church rules about the amount to give, that was entirely left up to the Holy Spirit and the individual. No one monitored the giving, in fact it was no one else's business but God's.

Any preacher who spends a lot of time on tithing is disobedient. God never told us to pressure others to give, He told us to hear from the Holy Spirit each and every one of us.

Luke 6:38

"Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

Philippians 4:19

"And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus."

2 Corinthians 9:7

"Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver."

In this matter of "tithing", there is no such command to the born-again believer. Some people will give one-tenth and others will give more, it is no one's business but the Holy Spirit's.

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Consult the Holy Spirit First

Next time you feel a need to run to a person about a spiritual matter, bite your tongue, fall on your knees and ask Jesus Christ instead.

There are way too many false teachers, pretend believers and deceptions to trust our culture in these last days. We must trust the Holy Spirit more than ever as we move toward the end of the church age.

Romans 3:3-4 "…3 What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness? 4 Certainly not! Let God be TRUE and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”

If anyone thinks a man, any man, can guide them better than the Holy Spirit then they have an idol. It is not bad to consult godly Christians but before we do we should go to God first.

To Know God's Will, Read the Bible and Ask the Holy Spirit

Whenever man decides he knows better than God how things must be done you can be sure it is going to go bad. Read the Bible, ask the Holy Spirit and do what He leads according to His will.

And, the direction of the Holy Spirit will never violate His Own scripture. If the scripture does not support a teaching or an action then we must reject that teaching or action and even speak against it.

 
James 1:14-15
"But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death."

Luke 6:46
“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?"

Teaching and Guiding by Example

Pastors are elders who guide by example and teach, they are not paid people and there is never only one man in a church who is the head.

The Bible teaches a plurality of leadership. All men in the church participate in the teaching and worship as led by the Holy Spirit. The one-man-paid pastor system is not Biblical.

1 Corinthians 14:26-31 "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."

Everyone participates and the Holy Spirit is the One Who leads in the church gathering. There is no such thing as a one-man paid pastor, no one is paid, no one is above another.

This model God gave in His word of the first-century church is nearly extinct now in these days of apostasy. Those who hold to this model of the church gathering are mocked and rejected, this is just how brain-washed the cultural church has become. They do things contrary to what God commanded and glory in it as though it is Biblical.

We are living in the last days of apostasy, sin is defended, man-made ways of doing things are elevated above God's ways. In the apostate churches men are held up as the authority instead of the Holy Spirit. Men are consulted instead of the Holy Spirit and those who wish to return to God's model of the new testament church are mocked and rejected.

This is just another sign of the end of the age right before the rapture occurs.

Exposing the false "church-system". you NEED to see this...

The Character of a Man is Revealed in the Word "No"

If you want to discover the character of a person whom you suspect is acting in a narcissistic fashion just set a boundary with a kind "no" in answer to their demands and watch what comes out.

The true narcissist will become angry, vengeful, and even gossip against you for daring to be in control of your own life. They will attempt fights and arguments to cause us to become like them.

The victory for the narcissist is when they cause you to become angry so they can claim you are the bad one in all the mess.

A narcissist always accuses others of doing what the narcissist is doing and the others are not doing. When they cannot accuse you of anything they try to start something so they can accuse you of something rude.

Lies and manipulation are the main tools on the narcissist belt. They use these tools every time they start trouble. We are seeing more of this than ever before because of the 2 Timothy 3 culture in which we live every day now.

2 Timothy 3:1-5

Difficult Times Will Come

"3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.

2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,

4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

5 holding to a form of godliness although they have denied its power; avoid such people as these."

Who is behind all these lies and manipulation? You guessed it I am sure.....it is the devil working in the minds of those who do not know Christ. He even works in the minds of Christians sometimes. He wants to ruin relationships, make people feel insecure, and remove the support system of the born-again believer so they will become like the world.

What the devil does not know is that he cannot ruin the support system of a born-again believer, we have the most powerful support anyone could ever have living within us, and that is Jesus Christ.

1 John 4:3-5 "…3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and which is already in the world at this time. 4 You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. 5 They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them."

When the trolls come to undermine your faith and ruin your friendships, do not become alarmed. Block them and remember that anyone who believes the angry narcissist was never your friend, to begin with. Those who love you will not believe the lies of the devil and those who are controlled by him.

We have Christ living in us and He is in control, the devil will not be in control of our lives.

No One Becomes a Christian by Deciding to Join a Church

So many people don't realize that stealing a stick of gum from someone can send a person to hell.

Its not about the gum its about the nature of man that caused them to steal and deceive.

The smallest sin sends people to hell because of the nature that led them to desire stealing.

Only Christ can change that nature and only if the thief wants to be changed by Christ.

No one can honestly say they are a good person, not even one person. No one ever got into heaven because they were good.

It is only possible to get into heaven when we trust in Christ Who paid our penalty. With this grace and blessing comes His change in us, but only if we want to be changed by Him into a new creation.

Those who say they are Christians but have no desire to be changed by Christ will not be saved. When we change our minds about sin, hating it in ourselves then Christ comes to live in us and begins the lifelong process of cleansing us.

We must confess our sinfulness to be saved by Christ and then each sin as it comes up for cleansing.

1 John 1:9

"9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous, so that He will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness."