My Family's vision: Selfless not selfish...stay on the Old Paths…

This is the message that should be centered in the churches of today. This is my family’s vision:

Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. Matthew 22:37-40

It is evident in many if not close to all churches today are nothing more than self-help centers catering to the narcissistic desires of those who make their homes there. They are more concerned with building up the egos and the happiness of the people than they are in teaching them to serve others in lieu of themselves.

Part of this is the fact that they encourage people to desire heaven as it is a better place to go to than hell is. They do this with more of an emphasis on escaping the flames of eternal hell instead of actually being able to go to heaven purely because God their Father is there. Job understood this fact clearly but too many self-professing Christians certainly do not get it. They are instead seeking heaven for selfish reasons and not for God.

For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:  And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God…Job 19:25-26

Today’s so-called churches encourage a social atmosphere that entertains the flesh and the need to be accepted amongst the crowd verses instructing them to be able to stand alone in a dark world in order to pull lost souls away from the flames of the pending wrath to come.

They teach humanism, where the end of all being is the happiness of man instead of actual Biblical Christianity where the end of all being is God….

But Jesus taught otherwise:

And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. Mark 10:44-45

We were created for His good pleasure and not our own…

For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Philippians 2:13

Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. Revelation 4:11

So my family’s vision is to love the Lord our God with all our heart, and with all our soul, and with all our mind and to love our neighbours as ourselves.

We seek to be servants of all because Jesus came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

We seek to do this through ministries of the spiritual building up of others, encouraging discipleship, encouraging nutritional and physical well-being of others and any other avenue of ministering to others that God puts in our path. This path is the old paths as set down in His word.

Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls…Jeremiah 6:16