10.Jesus Ministry or Apostle Ministry?

LORD sees this as a commission rather than a hidden secret.

The kind of Christian uprising in India is historic. The number of Christians has been increasing, with the LORD touching lives of many. There are many churches which had only few hundred members had grown exponentially to boast of few lakh members.

There has been an unquenched thirst among the Christians. However the thirst remain unquenched for many reasons. In a few churches where the crowd is high, the Sunday services are kept for five or more sessions. What happens in such churches is a thing to consider.

1. Same songs

2. Same word of god ministered.

Is this an acceptable practice? Few of my friends, who attend such church have shared an abnormal practice. Many members reach late to the church and most of time they enter the assembly when the Ministry starts. They listen to the ministry, continue to sit for the next service to sing the songs and leave! A plug and play service!

I have also experienced recorded services played out followed by a recorded sermon.

So what is the solution for quenching the thirst? If we think the thirst can be quenched by the Pastors, we are making a biggest mistake. It is nothing short of making the Pastors as an idol!

If any Pastor or leader says,

To worship the LORD, come and bring people to the Church campus, such pastors have not known the simple secret explained in 1 Corinthians 3:17 which states that each and every person is a Temple of God.

Also Jesus said in Samaria Time will come when the Father can be worshiped anywhere.

Isn't this the time? We don't go to Jerusalem for worshiping. So if this is the time to worship the father anywhere, why ask people to crowd the church campuses?

As long as you worship the LORD in spirit and truth, you can worship him anywhere. This has remained a hidden secret and for the sake of Christians and Pastors who had created the church campus as an idol between them and the LORD, shall see with their eyes opened.

If we look at the modern congregation, it is divided along the lines of their practices, just like the first century Corinthians church.

1 Corinthians 1 : 12 - What I mean is this: One of you says, "I follow Paul"; another, "I follow Apollos"; another, "I follow Cephas"; still another, "I follow Christ". Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized into the name of Paul?

This division has now got grown exponentially with church divided as Lutheran, Methodist, Adventists, Assemblies of God, CSI, CNI and so on.

People doing Jesus Ministry should preach Jesus. However some claim to do Apostolic ministry. I wonder if such ministers have read the Gospels and understood the LORD Jesus life. If they haven't, what use of doing ministry?

Another sad thing in the modern era is, the Churches divided on the lines of baptism.

Sprinkle baptism,

immersion baptism,

baptism in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit,

baptism in Jesus name etc.,



Baptism is a righteousness said Jesus, when he got baptized.

Matthew records in his Gospel that Jesus asked to baptize people in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. See Matthew 28:19-20

Mark records no name, while Luke and John is silent about baptism.

In the Acts of Apostles, we see Peter administering Baptism in the name of Jesus. (Example: Acts 2:38)

In the modern era, each congregation holds on to their belief on baptism and also some enforce that the believers take baptism again.

In Romans 6:3-4 Paul says “…don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life (NIV)

Only those who don’t know this great secret of dying for flesh and living for Jesus as a born-again Christian, rather “Christ I am”, the one who allows Christ to take full control of their life and lead a Holy life, will fight among themselves on the baptism. This is just a fallacy.

Now you tell, are you performing LORD’s ministry or Apostles Ministry?

Realize that you cannot serve the LORD and the worldly things at same time. This is told by Jesus himself. This part if written, not to judge anyone, but to unite the Christians to perform LORD Jesus work, and this is the Father’s will.

May the LORD bless you. Amen.

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