The Church without Borders

The empires that we see today are not churches because they will all disappear and this is just a matter of time. Where is the Corinthian church that was divided into Paul, Peter, Apollo and Jesus faction? (1 Corinthians 1: 11-13). Christianity no longer exists in the region. I am a catholic, I am an orthodox, I am a Pentecostal, I am a member of Redeemed Christian church, I am Charismatic Renewal, I am a Winner etc. these are empires built to acquire earthy members. Each holding to a strand of God and the gospel it understands. The church is anybody that upholds the word of God in speech and character and a community of people that do the same, irrespective of religious leaning and practice. Remember the woman by the well who was confused by where the true place of worship was (John 4:20), so do we confuse the world with walls and borders of the church. Are you in such confused state and these denominations just make the gospel confusing, come to Jesus the head of the border-less church. The Samaritans worshipped what they don’t know while the Jews worshipped what they knew but the true worship and place of worship was confusing (John 4:21-22). The Samaritans were outcast Jews because they had crossbreed (married from neighbouring nations) and there was deep fight for superiority and supremacy over the right place and right mode of worship between Samaritans and Jews. Samaria was the capital of the ten tribes that got separated from Judah and Benjamin- they were brothers and sisters from the twelve tribes of Israel (1 Kings 12; 20, 1 Kings 16; 24-30), just the way it is with many of our empires. When we try to pouch you for 'our' empires, we tell you prayers are best answered in Mountain of Fire and Miracle, holiness is better attained in Deeper Life Church, financial breakthrough is better attended to in Winners Chapel and you get so confused. The old tabernacle of Solomon had long been destroyed, yet the Jew still glory in it by holding onto the relics of history Just like the question of that woman, ‘our fathers worshipped on this mountain but you Jews claim that the true place of worship is in Jerusalem’. Where then is the true place of worship? That is a question central to the heart of every man (atheist or followers of any religion). The true place of worship was neither in Samaria nor in Jerusalem. Nobody has a monopoly of God.  The package is all wrapped in one border-less church. Jesus’ answer was simple and short, time has changed, thus the physical place of worship has become secondary as those who worship God are now the border-less Church, who worship God in spirit and truth and God is earnestly recruiting such people to join that church (John 4:23).  Come to Jesus the head of the border-less church, He wants to make you a shining light because the world awaits the manifestations of the sons of God (Rom 8: 19) and until then, the whole world will grope about in darkness. Paul told the Christians in Corinth that when he came to them, what and who he showed them was Jesus Christ and no one else. He (Paul) was not someone who had larger than life carriage so there was no need to create a faction after Paul or create a church for Paul’s teaching. They knew his human failings but Christ was the centre of the gospel and signs and wonders confirmed God and His words, and compensated for the human inadequacies (1 Corinthians 2:3-6). Come join the God’s general that will push the frontier of God’s kingdom in this dark age, where many bring human philosophy as kingdom answers and solutions. You have hated the walled churches/empires because of the inadequacies of men. It is just like hating hospitals because of one doctor’s malpractice but those who made you hate the church themselves are on life support. They try to give you a life they don’t have, a hope they know nothing about. A doctor can only administer treatment at his/her own level of knowledge. Look past them and look unto just one person that can help you out, Christ Jesus (Hebrew 12:2).