(By Ryan Johnson) I want to be clear and straightforward with everyone who reads the following…I believe that this is a word for each and every one of us. It’s not a word where we point fingers while only thinking of others. It is a word of self-evaluation before self-preservation. This will not be one of those feel good, God’s got you, regardless of your desire to repent kind of words. This is definitely a word that is good for you, but I want to be very clear with the urgency that I feel as I have spent countless hours in prayer and seeking wisdom for what I have been seeing and feeling throughout the Ekklesia. So, if you want to tap out now, I get it. But for those that will proceed, please prayerfully consider this as a serious warning (or alarm), and not just another word to like and/or share. Let us all as individuals examine ourselves!
I don’t believe for one minute that God is an angry guy looking down upon mankind waiting for the right moment to zap us with a bolt of lightning to further validate His reason of hatred toward sin. I strongly believe in the reality of God’s Grace, His Mercy, and His Love for man. However, I am not a reckless fool in which I believe that the LORD is turning His head from the wickedness of man and simply winking at our destruction. Though full of Grace and Mercy, the LORD is still Holy and Righteous. Sin, regardless of how we may want to define it still defiles mankind from the Father. There may be those who are advocates of life without repentance, but the word of the LORD still defines repentance as a necessary right to our relationship with the Father. I could go on and on at the differences of opinions that have continued to create a division among one another, but I will leave those topics for another day. I have been at a loss for many months now over what I have witnessed, what I have heard, what I have seen, and what I continue to observe. CONTINUE
