Churchianity

When we realize we want to turn from our sinfulness --  what then becomes the supreme object of our affections? Is our desire then to know Jesus, love Jesus, serve Jesus, obey Jesus, and be like Jesus?

Or is it to know church, love church, serve church, obey church and be like church?  Are we living for Jesus or are we living for church?

I am ready to serve Jesus wholeheartedly, and make sure my walk is solidly built around making Jesus alone the shepherd of my soul. No longer can church usurp the place Jesus was meant to reign supreme. It seems to happen insidiously. Where church quietly removes Jesus as the object of our worship and becomes our taskmaster and shepherd.

I believe there is a place for teaching, for helping others, for uplifting fellowship of believers. I believe we ought to support and help others in a body of believers, but should church take the place of Christ in our adulation?

I'm remembering the quaintness of white, steepled chapels set on a grassy hill, sitting there innocuously pointing the way of salvation, but at some point, these become steepled sepulchers of the spiritually vacant as they serve they know not whom. Many of these attend because daddy did, and granddaddy did, and all they can seem to do is mouth Christian cliches and the platitudes of those who have gone before. These church worshippers have their empty traditions, their homecomings and small minded politics of who replaced who on the church board.
Of who will sit in the "highest seat."  Didn't Jesus rebuke his disciples for that?

I'm ready to serve Jesus and Jesus alone.