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The Death of the Christian Church is the revelation God revealed to me to see that I had been a big part of the Death of the Christian Church for fifty years of being a pastor of eight churches. The church that Jesus spoke to Peter about in Matthew 16:18 is not any of the churches that I have served as pastor. Deacons ran the church, never approved by Jesus or God’s Word, things of beauty in the church was more important than those who needed help. Big bands and huge choirs were more significant than heart felt praise songs sung by God’s family. Programs and play grounds was the calling cards to build bigger and bigger congregations which meant more offerings and gifts. God’s House was being turned into a place of entertainment and sermons that tickled the congregants ears. Churches served as the breeding beds for gossip, judgmentalism, cliques, social gatherings, musical presentations, rather than wholesome and spiritual praise to our Living Jesus Christ. It will take a true disciple of Christ, willing to admit the truth that will be revealed to you if you truly desire truth. Compare the house of worship that you attend to the Word of God and you too will see even though most of you will turn a deaf ear. God bless you in your search.

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Religion

Christianisme

Philosophie et théologie

Christian Church

Christianity

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Publié par	Outskirts Press
Date de parution	28 février 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781977263025
Langue	English

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Table of Contents
Preface
The Congregation
The Deacons
Ministers
Denominational Associations
Church Treasury
Church Building and Property
Youth
Alternatives
Cliques
Narcissist
Pay Day Someday
Judgmentalism
Technology
Disbelief
The Trinity
God, the Holy Spirit
Community vs. Crime
Denominations
Ministerial Assault
Politics in the Church
Stumbling Blocks and Diversions
Churches and Big Business
Immorality in the Churches
Preface
Some months ago, I read an article that stated in the year 2022, 25,000 Christian Churches, in the United States would close.
I was astounded. After retiring from fifty years in the pulpit, this news almost stopped my eighty year old heart from beating.
This simply could not be true, some writer must have been listening to another person who would tell him such garbage.
Days and nights, I labored with this article and could not find peace in my soul in order to get some sleep.
I went before God repeatedly in prayer asking Him to please give me the answer to this extremely horrible prophecy and if it was true and if so, WHY?
After several sessions with Him, on a Friday night as I turned and tumbled in bed seeking rest, He spoke to my heart with this answer.
"Look back over your years serving Me. Just look, think, and reason as I do and you will find the answer." Most of you who read this book will disagree with me, however, if you love the Lord with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength, you will also want the truth and your eyes will be opened to understanding.
My retirement from the pulpit was primarily because of my age of eighty and having stomach cancer and a three and a half aneurism on my aorta at my heart and being advised to relieve myself of as much stress as I could or I would die soon.
With this being offered as my reason for retirement, there was also an underlying reason that I never revealed until now and that reason we because in my spirit, I was witnessing a move in the church that made me very uncomfortable and troubled my heart.
Another reason I am writing this book is to help everyone who is having difficulties in their church attendance realize that God loves you and if your church is not following His word in all aspects of service, it’s time for you to turn to Him and He is faithful to give you the answer. Sometimes we have to just be still and know that He is God.
This series of reasons for the death of the Christian Church will be what I have seen. Little scripture will be used but my spiritual vision will be front and center.
The following pages will reveal what I saw and in doing so, I found out myself that it was all true and I had been a part of the church demise for fifty years. Forgive me Lord!
Dr . James N. Gill PhD, DMin. 3230 Hwy 52 E. Bethpage, TN 37022
The Congregation
Jesus said in Matthew 16:18, while talking to His Disciples and Peter, "It is upon this rock I will build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it".
There are those who wrongly, have taken His words out of context and formed Their Church, called Peter the first Pope, and has spent centuries spreading a false gospel.
Jesus was speaking as to the divine revelation to Peter that Jesus is the Son of the Living God.
The church is not a building, it is not a multi-million dollar entertainment complex, it is the lost souls who realize they are lost and accepts Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
Men have established their own so called churches, church properties, church possessions, and church finances as their most cherished idols and lay claim as their own.
I witnessed a woman screaming to a Deacon, who was trying to share his heart to his church family, "Get out of our Church, and don’t come back."
There is the first and most important aspect making the demise of the Christian Church fade into oblivion. Not God’s House, our church and, " we own it, so get out."
Families who have had generations of their kin as members of a church, often times, as narcissistic individuals demand to be recognized as the most important family in the church.
Where physical property is involved, man claims it for his own and demands to control all it does.
Congregations have turned from bible believing, God fearing, conservative, and fundamental worshipers to a strange and alien group whose gospel of prosperity, name it and claim it, and progressive religious fanatics will crumble and fall.
Religion has and will be the cause so many people will feel the fires of hell and miss the glories of Heaven.
Let us wonder why the Word says that there is a highway to hell and a staircase to heaven. This should show us the population of each, heaven and hell.
As I looked back to my first Pastor-ship, through my spiritual eyes, and admitted the truth I saw this, even though it was there all the time but I didn’t see it.
Jesus desired for his children to be united in love, fellowship, and family but the following pages will reveal what He revealed to me as the night wore on.
What has cast a state of fear and apathy within the American Christian Church in America?
Joy has been replaced with sadness as congregations are intimidated with power hungry people who care less about them and the sanctity of the sanctuary.
Friends who constantly tell you how much they love you and has your back, will often be the very ones who will stab you in the back they claim to protect.
Fashion also takes a place of high importance in so many if not all churches today. I was told by a friend that he believed everyone makes their value of another by the shoes and watch they wear and I have seen such a competition between people of the church in how luxurious their attire is and how fashionable their hair is. One dear friend I have gets her hair done every Friday and sleeps in a lounge chair with a hair net on so her hair will still look good on Sunday at church.
We are weird people, ain’t we?
The Deacons
In my ministry, I have had the responsibility and privilege of ordaining quite a number of deacons to serve the eight churches I have served in my fifty year ministry. While being delighted seeing these men dedicate their lives in serving the church family, disappointments were looming.
I never allowed myself to see the monster I was creating within my own church.
During the anointed process of ordination, the deacon candidate, while on their knees before God and the congregation, vow their service to God and the church family as they serve the physical needs of the church, work under the authority of the elder or pastor, to allow the elder or pastor to spend more time in prayer, preach to the lost, study, and equipping the saints for evangelism.
Some where and some time ago, this roll took a terrible and sinful one hundred and eighty degree turn from service to ruling the church.
Deacons have been the devil’s instrument in discharging ministers, teachers, and other servants, when they do not have the authority to do so.
To discharge or call a pastor, requires a three fourth percent vote of the entire church membership as well as any member who disagrees with the position they have taken in the church.
I have served with some great men of God, who fulfilled their rolls with great love of God and the family of God, never attempting to draw attention to themselves and is happy serving God and His people.
Deacons was never ordained of Go to run, rule or govern the church in any capacity. Christian Churches have come under the false impression that they are subject to the deacon body and not to the church body and to God.
Until and if the church of Jesus Christ is ever going to be what it is intended to be, this form of church government has to change. This thought will infuriate deacon bodies all over the globe because they have acquired so much power over the church body and will not give it up for any reason.
Recently, in a local church, a narcissist deacon, and a few others, ambushed their pastor, sent him packing, and became the ruling faction of the church. The congregation was totally blinded by this action. On the following Sunday, the deacon who had organized the coop, stood behind God’s Holy Desk and told the church body that the pastor had resigned while the pastor had never done so. Pastors are blamed for the lack of church growth with the accusation that he does no visit nor call the congregation enough, while the deacon board is the ones who are failing their vows and passing the blame on the elder or pastor. Every one wants to pass the buck from their own failures. This deacon even had rewritten in the by-laws of the church that a check could not be written without his approval.
Power mongers and narcissist are a key part of the demise of the Christian Church, who demand to be served and not to serve.
I personally know such a person who boasts of being the most powerful member of a certain church, who tore up the Constitution of the Church and the By-Laws, which has stood for so many years, and rewrote them to his agenda, and the blind church amend