Saturday, September 08, 2012

HOW TO KNOW IF IT'S TIME TO GET OUT OF YOUR CHURCH!

worth·less/ˈwərTHlis/
Adjective:

Having no real value or use.
(of a person) Having no good qualities; deserving contempt.

IF that's how your church or fellowship treats you, if they don't see you as having value, if they don't see your gift as worthwhile, if there is contempt for what you bring, then it's time to find somewhere where you are celebrated, not tolerated. The Kingdom of God is too big for you to be treated as small change by people without vision. I'm not in favor of people jumping church, but you must not let people consider you worthless (other than to stand up, sit down, shut up, clap and pay your tithe). We have FAR TOO MUCH of that in churchianity. Find your place and bloom.

There are three things to consider before jumping ship:

RELIGION has always rejected men and women of true worth:
Acts 4:11 He is the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the Cornerstone.

1 Samuel 10:27 But certain worthless fellows said, "How shall this man save us?" They despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace.

1 Samuel 25:25 Please don't let my lord regard this worthless fellow, even Nabal; for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; but I, your handmaid, didn't see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.

YET GOD REBUKES THE TRULY WORTHLESS
Proverbs 6:12 A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth

Galatians 4:9 Now, however, having come to know God--or rather to be known by Him--how is it you are again turning back to weak and worthless rudimentary notions to which you are once more willing to be enslaved?

Romans 1:28 And just as they had refused to continue to have a full knowledge of God, so it was to utterly worthless minds that God gave them up, for them to do things which should not be done.

Hebrews 6:8 But if it only yields a mass of thorns and briers, it is considered worthless, and is in danger of being cursed, and in the end will be destroyed by fire.

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless. James 1:26

THERE ARE CAUTIONS IN BEING OF WORTH
Therefore this is what the LORD says: "If you repent, I will restore you that you may serve me; if you utter worthy, not worthless, words, you will be my spokesman. Let this people turn to you, but you must not turn to them. Jeremiah 15:19

Turn my eyes away from worthless things; preserve my life according to your word. Psalm 119:37

But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless. Jeremiah 7:8

"The LORD knows the thoughts of the wise; he knows they are worthless." 1 Corinthians 3:20

Stay true to God, stay away from worthless theories and words. Wisdom is found only in Him. Stay in that and you will have worth not matter what the Pharisees say.

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