Stop Playing Church! — Be The Church!
Stop playing church! Stop playing at Christianity!
Stop pretending to be what you’re not. Stop claiming gifts you haven’t got.
Stop being a faux Christian.
Get real with God. Time to take it all very seriously!
For too many, Church is a social outing.
You make much more fuss over coffee and biscuits than you do over The Word that was preached.
Half the time you cannot remember what was preached last Sunday!
For too many, you like the sound of calling yourself a Christian — but you’re not really one at all. You’re just playing the ‘Church Game’. It’s a religious form of ‘keeping up with the Joneses’!
For too many, you think it’s ‘cool’ or ‘relevant’ to be Christian.
You deem popularity more important than being a godly man or woman. The smoke and sound of the worship is what you like — the presence of God? Oh yeah, that was good too!
For too many, your prayer life runs second to gossip. Oh the bane of the whole Church — gossip!
Even though you heard the call to Prayer — The Holy Spirit calls each of us inside the veil — you would much prefer to catch up on the latest tidbits from hell, called gossip.
For too many, you’d rather go to the dentist than to a Prayer Meeting.
We have been in prayer meetings when heaven seemed to invade the room. The presence makes you never want to miss it again.
“Oh, but I forgot, there’s an ‘important’ ball game on tonight….” Hmmmm… cannot possibly miss that, can I?
Hear what The LORD is saying to me and you, to His Church, to His people, to His Bride — “Come back to Me, My precious Child!
Come as you did when you first found Me.
Stop playing the ‘Church Game’ and take Me seriously.
It is time to pick up your cross and follow Me.
It is time to prepare for that which I AM bringing to you! It is time to answer your calling, to pick up and use the gifts I gave you, and to let the world know that you are a Christian!
“You are mine!” says The LORD, “And I AM a jealous God.
I will not tolerate your other gods at all!
Do and be all that I have called you to do and be.
My Yoke is easy, My burden is light.
It’s time to stop playing Church!
It’s time to start being The Church!“
“There will be no more false visions and flattering predictions in Israel. For I am The LORD! If I say it, it will happen. There will be no more delays, you rebels of Israel. I will fulfill my threat of destruction in your own lifetime. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!” Then this message came to me from The LORD: “Son of man, the people of Israel are saying, ‘He’s talking about the distant future. His visions won’t come true for a long, long time.’ Therefore, tell them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: No more delay! I will now do everything I have threatened. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!’” Ezekiel 12:24-28
~ Chris G. Bennett
Chris Bennett came to salvation in 1962 but didn’t begin ministry until 2007 — a late-comer! Now mandated by The LORD to prophesy and open old wells of revival in the U.K., but especially in Wales. He has also operated Healing Rooms, and worked with deliverance teams, all with his wife, Linda. Happily now doing whatever The LORD asks of them! Founder, with wife Linda, of their ministry The Upper Room Encounter.
Amen