In this picture:

1) There are no spectators.

2) Everyone feels free to speak out in the meeting.

3) Their focus is on the living Jesus.

I think Leonardo got it right in his famous painting. I wish churches would follow that format.

I’ve never said that church is a bad thing. I continually say that church is far from enough. Being a Christian involves so much more than hearing a Sunday sermon, no matter how good the sermon might b

The chopped up intuitional church that is divided into hundreds of thousands of separate denominations and independent churches that disagree with each other while claiming that their doctrine is right, even if it disagrees with the Bible. Since Jesus prayed that His body be one, surely that means that churches are at least somewhat messed up.

God has used the intuitional church throughout history. The devil also has used it through complacency, compromise, religious hatred, false doctrine, and religious violence. It’s the wheat and the tares. I don’t want to eliminate it. I want to help reform it. I’ve been in instutional churches until I was forced out 7 years ago. The 10 years before my wife and I planted and oversaw a church, that met like an AA meeting, in a major denomination. The support and love from that denomination was incredible until one man with a strong religious demon got the power to shut it down. As I write this, I am ministering in that denomination last night and tonight. Many of its leaders are hungry for reformation.

Church bags Jesus
In the bags
Of ceremony
And history,
But Jesus lives
To set you free.
Don't settle for
Religiosity.