Deuteronomy 26:2 KJV
That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there.
A challenge for every Christian I know, and a point of contention for those who are not believers, is the thought that all religion is man made. It would not have been difficult for someone in leadership in Israel to survey the land and decide for himself where would be the best place for the center of their worship. This, in fact, became the situation when the woman at the well told Jesus that her fathers said they should worship in one place and the Jews said people should worship in another. Too much religion is just the design of designing men.
This is not what true faith is. Christianity is not to be our following those who seem successful and have found the most effective means to gather and lead a crowd. Christianity is to be following the leadership of the Lord and our leaders, if it is even right to call them leader (I have begun to question that more and more), are not to make plans and create ideas and call men to follow them. The ministers of God have only one real responsibility; to serve the Lord and His people in the place God chooses. That sort of Christian practice will not be any more loved by the world than the designing kind. But it is an honest faith, and it is the one God calls us to.
That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there.
A challenge for every Christian I know, and a point of contention for those who are not believers, is the thought that all religion is man made. It would not have been difficult for someone in leadership in Israel to survey the land and decide for himself where would be the best place for the center of their worship. This, in fact, became the situation when the woman at the well told Jesus that her fathers said they should worship in one place and the Jews said people should worship in another. Too much religion is just the design of designing men.
This is not what true faith is. Christianity is not to be our following those who seem successful and have found the most effective means to gather and lead a crowd. Christianity is to be following the leadership of the Lord and our leaders, if it is even right to call them leader (I have begun to question that more and more), are not to make plans and create ideas and call men to follow them. The ministers of God have only one real responsibility; to serve the Lord and His people in the place God chooses. That sort of Christian practice will not be any more loved by the world than the designing kind. But it is an honest faith, and it is the one God calls us to.
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