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The postmodern church.

Living in an age of rapidfire communications and shameless self  promotion, The church stands at a crossroads in a place where it's never stood before. With all the hype in the media with self-promotion and self love will the church follow in the same steps that the world is following in right now? I could say she the church is sick but whom I to diagnose a problem, for which there seems no remedy? Has enlightenment taking the place of the cross, or has the world taken the place of the preaching of sin in our churches? To diagnose this problem I want to go on a quest first, to diagnose my own heart. But it's my own heart is sick with said what does the heart of the church look like? It's clear I am not the church but I am a part of the church or more theologically correct to say I'm a part of the body of Christ. In fact the Bible teaches that Christ is the head of the church and if anyone is in Christ the Holy Spirit resides in that person making them a part of the universal Church. Catholicism has it right in one aspect there is one church one body of true believers people who have truly been born again by the Spirit of God with the indwelling Holy Spirit residing within them. My question to you is do you belong to Christ does the spirit dwell in you because if it does then you are part of the church you are the church you are part of the body of Christ. To contend for the truth means to contend for the cross and this is what I'm just about to do by quoting a verse from the holy Scriptures. If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness. 11But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.   9However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. 10If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.…
I purposely mashed two scriptures together both of them are taken from the New Testament. One if you are a Christian Christ dwells in you and two if you do not have this Holy Spirit within you then you do not belong to Christ. How simple can that be and what is the church teaching these days is it teaching another Jesus or is it teaching that we have the Holy Spirit living without us not only do we have the Holy Spirit living with us but Christ dwells within the believing sinner who is become sanctified by the Spirit of God. The Holy Spirit is not just any spirit is that it is the spirit of Christ and it is the spirit of God it is also called the spirit of truth. The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity and to be saved we must not only confess Jesus as Savior but we must confess him as Lord. That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. 12For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. 13For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Any other gospel is a false gospel and should be Shunned to the utmost. Error begets error but one who is possessed with the Holy Spirit is kept safe from harm. In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation-- having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of His glory. And finally one verse from the book of Revelation which condemns those who alter the gospel. 18I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues which are written in this book; 19and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book. 20He who testifies to these things says, "Yes, I am coming quickly." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus. God is clear don't tamper with his book. This is Mike.

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