Pastor Dee's Spirituality Blog: Spirituality: Types of Attack #1

"All of us, at some point, need a miracle! That is when you really begin to appreciate and wish for MORE spirituality -- the power to, legally, tap into another dimension and alter the natural course of earthly events".

Thank you friends and visitors that you 'blitzed' the heavens for me and shook the very foundations in the spirit-world of cruelties that were being done to me. You turned God to give me a miracle. I am free! Thanks to each of you! Pease read the Tuesday, May 29, 2007 Spirituality Blog - "Attacks To Spirituality". I promised you some important things had been revealed to me which I would share with you. It's going to be accomplished now through this new SERIES:

Knowing Types of Attack To Your Spirituality

Attack #1 - Organized Religion

If you are determined to become the person God created you to be and fulfill the roles, both now and in the eternal future, for which you were born, you will have to receive courage to abandon organized religion. Times have changed. Regular weekly meetings of activities and programs in a church setting are NOT what they should be. This is the season when, to save your spiritual life (and sometimes physical) you must be alert to danger and ALWAYS READY to get out of there!

One thing about the spirit-world is knowing the times and seasons that your generation is operating in. This means that some things which you would normally do, you may not be able 'for the times' to do.

1 Corinthians 7:26
I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.

Also, things you did through one method or manner, you must kill your love for that method of worship, praise, outreach etc.. You must love God and HIS methods for building your spirituality versus the christian system structure that you have known. You must love God more than yourself and your likes and in no way care that it in NO WAY REMINDS YOU OF WHAT YOU HAVE KNOWN!

1 Corinthians 2:2
For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
1 Corinthians 2:1-3 (in Context) 1 Corinthians 2 (Whole Chapter)From www.Biblegateway.com

Galatians 6:14
But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
Galatians 6:13-15 (in Context) Galatians 6 (Whole Chapter) From www.Biblegateway.com

There is a false sense of spiritual security offered as a subsitute for authentic spirituality through organized religion. God is replacing organized religion with a return to 'community', that is, people caring one on one. I told a minister once that the Holy Spirit had spoken to me "Cell churches are past, I'm building community."

Now, I see God's prophecy of a season change from the existing christian system structure back to His original identity of church as a community (recorded in the New Testament) fulfilling everywhere -- online communities, meetup communities, grassroots youtube communities and so forth. STILL leaders in organized religion don't get it!!!! They are still determined to find a way to keep that stale, dry routine called worship and try to add into it some form or method of community. YOU DON'T FORM OR METHOD COMMUNITY, YOU 'DO' COMMUNITY, THEN YOU 'ARE' COMMUNITY.

These two different expressions of spirituality, CHRISTIAN SYSTEM STRUCTURE vs CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY come from two completely different hearts, so that the two cannot exist simultaneously! Leaders think if they build you a larger megaplex, add more sophisticated television, video and projector screens within the structure and snappier sound systems for a music experience, cutting edge internet ministries, you will be happy. They don't have a clue that, even with all that, the people who did not come there for that are dying inside to touch the spirit-world and their own spirituality in an authentic way.

People loving God first and then one another as the expression of love for God WAS what church was all about! What happened? When did that go out of memory? How did we get to this horrible place? That just is NOT what church is about today? Today, church is a cold, impersonal and cliquish society of friends organized to advocate, through the Bible, their personal politicisms, sexisms, racisms, nationalisms, and not to forget successisms. I have gone into churches that were nationally esteemed for their superstar pastor and their superstar numbers and their superdome -- where not one living soul came over to greet a brand new guest.

There is a reason that America became polarized politically and split the country into two warring groups. In the spirit-world, the spiritual geiger counters of the nation (pastors) had already begun to use the church pulpit as a place to peddle their personal biases. Having traveled within almost every major christian denomination imaginable, I can tell you this shift in the use of the pulpit is not an isolated fad, it is rooted, pervasive and continuing.

In the 50's and 60's, while many evils were going on in America, one thing was still in place -- a fundamental reverence for holy things, God things and children were the highest thing next to God, whom we protected at all costs. That fundamental reverence for holy things and awareness of the higher values of a spirit-world defining our very existence made the conscience of the nation 'touchable' when we began to realize what we were doing to one another as human beings in the Kent State Killings, Vietnam, Watergate, Irrational African-American Lynchings/Riot Dogs, Native Americans Despised and on and on.

Now, caught up in a christian system structure with stakeholders, akin to the corporation system structure for stockholders, the mission and method of christian America parallels that of corporate America. Now we talk alike (positive thinking and motivation replaces spirituality), walk alike (I did it too, but really now, what does a preacher need with a briefcase? The Bible was enough for Jesus, the Parchments enough for Paul) think alike (Is the person profitable to your ministry? No? Dump 'em) and even look alike (We are a really successful IPO with which to place your investment. We even purchased one of the world's largest facilities for our headquarters). Under such circumstances, leading in spirituality will always be forfeited (as in corporation system and structure) for the mighty bottom line.

When you get tired of getting your hopes up that this will be the church where you can really learn how to spiritually connect with God and even know him like Moses did, if possible, then have to move to another and another and another. You'll begin to suspect that times have changed and it is the season for you to hold up your head and try every other avenue legally accessible through Jesus Christ besides organized christian system structure for your spirit. It's ALL you've got!