The Institution vs.
The Apostolic
Today’s Focus: Features
of Institutional Christianity: Cannot Recognize Sons within its Own House
Scripture: 1 Samuel
17:55
Greetings Sons of
God:
Now we know that
David is the son within Saul’s house. With a resume like David, you would
wonder, how could you not recognize a son within the house? Well we know that even though David
ministered to Saul and Saul put his armour on David, after David comes back
from the victory over Goliath, Saul did not recognize David. David represents the spirit of sonship. If we really examine the state of the church
then we should be able to clearly see how Saul (institutional church) cannot
recognize David (sonship). Let’s examine
some reasons why:
1.
The institutional church is too
pre-occupied with self. The
institutional church is too pre-occupied with keeping their rules and
regulations and raising up disciples to themselves.
2.
They see sons as youth! This one is a major problem. They cannot recognize maturity. They base maturity on age, not fruit. I
cannot tell you the number of times I have heard “He can’t because he is not
old enough” when it comes to ministry. I
guess we have forgot about Jeremiah and king Josiah??
3.
They see sons as slaves. Now they may not say this to you but as long
as you are doing what they call “ministry”
then you are doing a good work and God will bless you. However if you do not do what “they perceive”
ministry is, then God is not pleased with you.
To the institutional church maturity is someone doing their work called
ministry and doing it well and not what true maturity is which is Christ being
formed in you.
The end-result of
the failure of the institutional church to recognize sons is that the son
leaves. Many people who have come to the
revelation of the House of God has left the house of Saul for the house of
David. They have left the institutional
church for the House of God and their life in sonship. Over time as these sons leave, the
institutional church will eventually die due to no sons being available to
carry on the work.
Peace, Love and
Grace from the Father,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
