Christianity is Like a Disease

March 18th, 2018

Let’s Spread it Like One

I am so sick of church.

I haven’t finished today’s prayers. I turned on a Youtube video for some reason, and I saw something I felt I had to write about.

A street evangelist picks up a friend at an airport. They go to McDonald’s. While they’re eating, they talk about the gifts of the Holy Spirit. They turn to some soldiers at a nearby table, and they start telling them things about the soldiers’ lives. This is what the Bible calls “the word of knowledge.” It means God tells people facts they wouldn’t otherwise know.

Big-money ministers love the word of knowledge. They fake it in order to scam people. A pulpit pimp named Peter Popoff (say that three times fast) got caught using an earpiece and a backstage team to get information about people, and then he pretended it came from the Holy Spirit. If you can convince a person God has told you things about him, he is likely to give you money. Popoff’s ministry was destroyed, but like a tumor that isn’t completely removed, it grew back.

The guys in the video aren’t asking for money. They don’t mention their great need for a jet. They pay for their own food, they pray for a couple of people, and they leave.

This is what Christianity is supposed to be. It’s supposed to be like the flu, which spreads from obscure person to obscure person, in random locations.

If you desired the flu for some reason, you wouldn’t go to a doctor and pay him a big fee to get it. You’d go out in public and try to be around as many people as possible. If we had to go to big meetings in order to get diseases, epidemics wouldn’t exist. Somehow, though, we rely on meetings in buildings with closed doors to spread the gospel.

The devil doesn’t have a big network of Satanist churches he relies on. He’s smarter than that. He uses individuals. We corrupt our friends, spouses, kids, relatives, and coworkers. We corrupt strangers. Businesses corrupt customers. The devil’s flu is spread on sidewalks, in offices, on subway trains, and in restaurants. The devil’s evangelists don’t need jets. They walk. They drive themselves. They take buses.

Church-lovers are really celebrity worshipers. They think Benny Hinn or the Pope or Paul Washer has the answers and the power. They think it’s completely acceptable to follow a man or woman, who sins and errs, for 50 years. That’s insane. One of the main purposes of the crucifixion was to decentralize power and make Christianity a grassroots phenomenon that couldn’t be stopped by attacking its leaders.

Church-lovers are lovers of organizations, not God. They don’t know God. They don’t care to. They don’t expect to. They have priests and pastors to talk to God for them.

Catholics and quasi-Catholics are the worst. In the Catholic church, there are super-holy people called “saints,” and Catholics pray to them instead of God. To be a saint, you have to work three miracles in your life. This is considered impressive. I’m nothing, and I’ve worked more miracles than that. Lots of people have. Every Christian should have a record of miracles. The Catholic church puts God at a distance, so people think it’s a huge deal if someone hears from him or demonstrates his power.

It’s as if they were rationing air! God’s power should be all around us, and it should flow through every one of us. It’s free. It’s unlimited. God wants us to have it and spend it as if it were water.

Church-lovers quote people, not God. Think about that. “Benny Hinn says this.” “T.D. Jakes says that.” If you’ve been a Christian for a year and you can’t quote anything God told you during that time, you’re doing it wrong.

You don’t have to quote Billy Graham. You can bypass him completely.

What did the prophets say? Did they say, “Here is what Isaiah told me”? No, they said, “Thus says the Lord.”

Christians love to ridicule Jews because they went 400 years without a prophet, but how many books of prophecy have we produced since the Bible was put together? That was well over a millennium ago. Did God suddenly decide we didn’t need to hear from him? Can anyone seriously believe that?

The devil talks to us every single day! He never shuts up! But God is quiet? Are you kidding me?

What kind of father would that make him?

It’s neat to watch three obscure Christians sit down in unity and represent God with authority. I love the fact that no money changed hands. Preachers keep telling us God needs money. Come on. He’s not Macy’s. He has NO OVERHEAD.

Churches are like big boils with massive cores of solidified pus. They are constipated. They fester. People want to get to know God, so they go to church. They learn a few things, and then they congeal and become part of the fossilized current of sludge. It’s like flypaper!

“I’m a good Christian. I go to church every week. I give more than 10% of my income. Now let me go back to sleep.”

Where does the Bible say people go to heaven based on their church attendance?

John the Baptist was supposed to be a priest. His dad was a priest, and he was entitled to become a priest by inheritance. The Romans chose the priests in that time. They chose toadies and kapos. In order to get anything done, John had to get away from the temple and baptize people in a creek.

The Jordan River is a creek. It’s tiny. You can throw a rock across it.

The temple was a mess, and churches are a mess. That’s why Jesus and Paul didn’t talk about church buildings. “Church” meant the people who believed.

My feeling about churches is that they are good places to go to meet Christians and to learn a few basic things. Other than that, you have to watch out. They will put chains on you as soon as you give them an opening.

In many charismatic churches in America, the real purpose of the organizations is to make preachers and their slackjaw kids rich (or at least affluent), and to feed their hilarious egos. That’s generally true. It’s even true in churches where the pastors make a big show of being humble. “I’m getting off the stage now. I’m being humble so God can get his glory. Don’t make a big deal out of it.”

I love the kind of ministry I saw in that video. Now that I think about it, it’s the kind of ministry I have. I am possibly the least effective Christian on earth, and I am totally useless as an evangelist. I am not much of a servant, but I have been able to pass some very useful things on to a few people. Destiny-transforming things. And it happened under the church’s radar. My churches were my biggest enemies.

Come to think of it, I didn’t have any other opposition.

Wow!

Can’t believe I never realized that until now.

Take a look at the video if you get a minute, and notice something. The man shooting the video is a middle-aged white man. He picks up a dark-skinned Latin at the airport. They meet up with a third friend, who is black. They minister to two black strangers. This is what Psalm 133 is talking about when it says it’s beautiful to see brothers living together in peace. No BLM ranting. No moaning about white people losing our white country.

It shows where real peace comes from. You can’t get it through treaties or the use of force. You have to make people see each other as family members, and only Christianity can do that. Jews and Muslims will never have peace, because they haven’t accepted Jesus and become one people.

Jesus is a divider and a uniter. He divides his flock from the world, and he unites us with each other.

Interesting stuff.

You can get to know God at home, without tithing, volunteering, taking classes, or signing a membership pledge. Forget that crap. Ask him to help you. He’ll do it. It’s what he created you for; he’s waiting.

If you feel like attending church after that, fine. Just don’t let the church cut you off from God. Paul went to the temple sometimes, but he wasn’t dumb enough to accept their error.

I know the age of churches is dead, and the age of individual ministry is finally, after 2000 years, going to bloom. I look forward to seeing more of it. It has apparently been going on right in front of me, and I haven’t noticed. Great news.

Maybe God will help us out and start exposing the famous leeches and taking away their power over us. That would be fantastic.

Hope and power truly are available. Anyone who tells you you don’t qualify is ignorant and toxic.

3 Responses to “Christianity is Like a Disease”

  1. Steve B Says:

    I like the concept of the “cell church.” Smaller, linked home churches, groups of 5 to 10 people at most. to me that is more keeping in line with The Way and the early church. People don’t drop a couple of bucks into a collection plate to feel like they’ve Done Something. They get together and help each other when needed. I think as it gets harder and harder for devout Christians to truly hold to Biblical ideas in an increasingly corrupt culture, adopting an “underground church” mentality and model makes a lot of sense.

  2. Steve H. Says:

    It’s amazing what happens when a human organization takes over. At Trinity Church, I was told they had a rule that only Rich Wilkerson, Sr. was allowed to receive a message in tongues from God.

    I realize they had a lot of flaky people there, and it may be that people got up and started speaking when God wasn’t talking to them, but you can’t really require God to go through the person you choose. It reminds me of the Jewish priests the Romans appointed.

  3. Mike Says:

    I personally have gained much from you. My wife and I were not getting anywhere at church. It was getting to the point we just picked out the only parts we felt the spirit and just left afterwards. Then I would read about your experiences here and I could see we were not alone and finally we just gave up on it. Not saying we won’t go back but I don’t feel bad about not going. We give directly what we would have given to the church to others in need. And I don’t have the feeling only a small portion of what we give gets to the really needy.

    Thank you!