NOW, When Is Someone Saved?

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Wow, been busy all day at the office and decided to check in. I would be glad to clarify my post about "Buildings" becoming a "False Face" or hindering a person’s perspective about God and Faith.

Simplicity brings us closer to God and His purpose. Complexity divides, destroys, and only creates more Religion. Buildings lead people to complexity because they are manmade, just like an automobile complicates our lives; maintenance, insurance, gasoline, these and more bog our lives down with more to do, creating the Martha spirit.

Church buildings slowly evolve the people into the care, maintenance, and the competitive aspect of Faith, leading to a drained and falsified view of our Creator. In the over 30 years of my observance of church laity, the burden and prison of “Buildings” has completely exhausted the best of the best. People start out strong doing all of the things necessary to erect “God’s House” or buildings made with hands, while burn out sets in and concepts of Faith are destroyed or marred. Scrubbing a toilet, waxing a floor, and fixing the roof have replaced time spent on the Mount.

Looking at Scripture, Jacob called the stone of the Earth, Bethel, or God’s House. He received vision, God’s Will, and a New Birth experience without a Building. Look at Moses via the burning bush or on the mountain where God’s presence illuminated this man. Where did Abraham sacrifice? On the Mountain. Where did Elijah hear the still, small Voice? On a mountain. Why didn’t Jesus go to a Temple to pray during his greatest hour of need?

I have encouraged our Church to find that Garden or Mountain, as without these, the manmade Structure of Church will dominate with the darkness of Religion all because the very life of a Christian has been depleted maintaining these buildings that will turn to dust. We become Martha’s, running to and fro, unaware that God Created the Heavens and the Earth, not the Building we are calling Bethel.

If people don’t connect with God in the habitat that He made, the relationship God seeks in us during the cool of the day will be lost. Gardens will become skyscrapers, and the sensationalism of Religion will replace the powering sunset that no man can create. I personally feel, people can receive divine answers just like men of old did, if they would place themselves at the feet of the Master in His Domain called Creation.