Don’t be surprised as God increasingly exposes the sin and corruption often found in “churches” and “ministries” centered around one gifted man and his particular vision.

That’s because Christ is calling us – each and every one – to finally be the church.

One of the ways He’s doing that is by accentuating the growing dichotomy between:

Unconnected people who barely know each other (if at all) but go to staged “services” with spectator seating for monopolizing ministry by one man, contrary to New Testament commands, as he builds his “church” roster;

Versus relational communities of believers who gather together in hospitable settings for participatory ministry to one another, like the New Testament mandates, as they build up each other.

The former lacks the transparency and accountability needed to minimize abuse and predation by self-serving “leaders” who use their positions to exploit others.

In the latter, it’s nearly impossible for such people to emerge among us unless they first convince us to leave our New Testament commitments and coalesce around them and their singular leadership…

Which in itself becomes a glaringly open, advance warning of who they really are.

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“For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.” Heb. 4:12-13