WICKED CHURCH
By Rick Mathes
1 Corinthians 5:13 (NASB77) 13 But those who are outside, God judges. REMOVE THE WICKED MAN FROM AMONG YOURSELVES.
Liberal believers have a sense of relative rather than objective doctrine and biblical disciplines. Their interpretations of truth are open to flexible opinions of individual choice. The certainly are not legalist like those who spend the day following you around with a list of the do’s and don’ts you insist must be followed right to the letter Both liberal and legalist are nothing but trouble and explosive divisiveness to any fellowship.
I have the most problem with those who base their faith and live their lives according to a ritual-centered belief system. Stand now, kneel later, lift your hands, drop your eyes, parade and stand at a statue and recite long pontifical prayers the same way the same time and at every meeting of believers of like obscure nonsense.
Those tradition locked groups are so stiffly stifled that they are literally hand-cuffed to the same way things have always been done. I preached at a church once where everyone sat on the right side of the church and no one on the left because in the early days, the only air-conditioning was on the right, many years ago!
Our Lord felt the wicked church was the one that was lukewarm. In fact, He promised He would spit them out of His mouth. You can’t get more graphic than that to make our point that they were worth less. This church is one that compromises and hasn’t any absolutes in neither practical government nor biblical believers. It’s a “whatever” fellowship that is in fact “prostitutes of truth.” Lukewarm or compromising leaders have no objective or solid basis of uniform decision making. This is really just organized chaos.
It leads to a personality centered church and it is a proven fact that centralized power will ultimately corrupt the leadership. History proves that to always be true. This church is really a non-Christian church or as most would label it a carnal, worldly, corrupt and temporal fake that is destined to flames!
PRESS ON!
Rick Mathes 