WIKICHURCH… 'Collaborate, Add, and Remove.'
Because Wikipedia is open source, it operates on the assumption the majority opinion is the right opinion, or by consensus, truth can be achieved by majority. By everyone expressing their individuality that the truth will emerge. This is an old lie repackaged as a new idea; the democratic approach to universal truth.
All opinions combined will lead to truth… sort of like all roads lead to heaven. Each person works together to produce the finalized information, the product. Each person feels entitled to add to the product or take away from the product.
Sadly, today's Christians have difficulty divorcing political belief from Christian living as democratic thinking has morphed into modern Christianity. Christianity is NOT a democracy. The end result is the Wikichurch, a church very different from the one established on the day of Pentecost.
The Church of Thyatira
A Wikichurch has members which feel entitled to be participants in the functions of the service and the natural growth of the church. The modus operandi is majority opinion of the saints dictates how the church should operate. A Wikichurch gives special ear to the desires of the saints who give more, they outreach certain groups of economic status. When saints begin to collaborate together, it can easily become the breeding ground of entitlement.
The Church of Ephesus
Feelings of entitlement grow up and choke the seeds of joy, privilege, gratitude that were gifts accompanying the Holy Spirit. It is easy to forget our first love; just to belong in the church triumphant, called out of darkness into His marvelous light! Paul catches the spirit of the Wikichurch:
2 Timothy 4:3-4
3. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4. And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
The Church of Pergamum
A Wikichurch is one that adds and removes. They cannot endure sound doctrine like a legalistic church that cannot endure the preaching of sufficient grace, like universalistic church that cannot endure the preaching of eternal judgment. They reject the preacher, the pastor, the word that does not fit their definition of religion. They will not worship, unless the music fulfills their own lusts for their own musical tastes, whether young or old! They reject the notion of a sacrifice of praise.
They add those teachers and interpretations and stories of the things that fit their agenda, their church program.
They remove all aspects and requirements that hinder their desires and their version of Christianity.
"I know MY pastor preaches against that, but I just don’t feel convicted" and "Do you understand how hard it is to raise children in this day and age?"
The Church of Symrna
But the church triumphant, the church that Jesus purchased with His own blood on Calvary's Cross, is set up a little different. It is a church where everyone is equal at the foot of the cross. There is no rich or poor, no color.
The Church of Philadelphia
There is no seniority in redemption there is only love. There is no one beyond God's grace and mercy! Everyone comes together not because the sacredness is in the assembling because the sacredness is in the moving of the Holy Spirit connecting people through worship and rebuking and rebuilding them through the word of God! The saint of 35 years is no more "saved" than the person that stumbles in form the street.
The spirit moves freely… and the people pray without ceasing… and the preacher preaches truthfully. This is the church in motion. Paul illustrates:
2 Timothy 4:1-2
1. I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
2. Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove , rebuke , exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
Paul to Us by way of Timothy- Don’t worry about Wikichurch Timothy, young preacher, pastors all over the world. Yes, they will not like what you are saying… But preach the word. They may rip pages out of the encyclopedia forever but the page is still in the printing office in the sky. (Psalms 119:89), The Word is bound on the cross and printed on the hearts of all believers on Pentecost.
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