Where is the Church of Jesus Christ?

I’m in my sixties now, and constantly remanence over the church that I became born again in, the Church headed by Jesus Christ; the Church that held up the blood of Christ and the proclamation that Jesus is the way, the truth and the life.

I see young people in church dressing as women of the world, men too; everything tight and showing off what they have. I see them cussing and talking as the world as a way of life- acceptable to them in their Christian walk. Where are the elders of the church? Oh yes, they also are living that life. How did this happen, the world infiltrating the church?

The enemy is very calculating and strategic in his moves to take the church world down. I am reminded of Revelation 2:14 where it shows the doctrine of Balaam “who taught Balac to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.”

The enemy is repeating what has worked for him, the stumbling block that is so evident to the unchurched while the church sits blind and falling headlong into it—–fornication in the church! Do we have any Pauls to call this out?

Looking at the church today we see the focus has changed drastically. We have people leading the church whose main focus is what people can attain in the name of Christ. The run is no longer to enter into the gates of heaven (eternal life), instead the draw is what worldly things you can attain as a Christian. Christians do not even claim to be separate (separated unto God), but instead we accommodate anyone coming into the church as they are, which is alright at the beginning of their journey in Christ. The problem is those people do not change; change is no longer taught, the waly is no longer taught. The most renowned or recognized “preachers” do not teach nor encourage leaving the desires of this world behind and focusing on the commission set by Christ. When we are sold out for the cause of Christ, He will not deny us what we need or what we want that is not harmful to us.( Matt 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.) You wont even have to chase material things, they will be chasing you.

The strait path to get to the gate is no longer emphasized nor distinguished from the wide path that leads to hell. The word of the Lord puts it this way “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat. Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” (Matthew 7:13 and 14). This stumbling block has the church totally confused. The church wants so much to be accepted by the world that it has given up its “salt”.

Yes, above is the problem, what is the solution? We can begin by putting prayer back into the church. I don’t mean the little segments we call praying during the service. I mean real prayer where man/women of God lay before the alter in the sanctuary crying to hear what thus sayeth the Spirit of God. I mean laboring for hours or days or weeks so they can be drenched in the Spirit and have ears and eyes opened in the spiritual realm. Start here and teach the people to labor before the Lord, labor before the Lord.