“You have ignored my Word, my plan, my purpose. Above all you have ignored my Son. My Son, who has given His life for you, my Anointed One, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
You have not listened but have continued with your traditions and useless religious programmes.
You have ignored what He taught, what He demonstrated as your example, to follow Him and His lowliness.
You have ignored His way, neglected His power always available from the Holy Spirit.
What did my Son start on the earth? What did he command his followers?
Make disciples!
Instead you have trusted in what the world has to offer. How can you treat Him like this? You should be ashamed of your apathy, of your lifeless sermons, keeping your seated membership in ignorance and in straightjackets, bound up in practices I never intended.
Who told you to build ‘churches’?—that word is an abomination to me.
You give yourselves a name, an identity, a constitution, an incorporation. You build buildings and spend money on things that are perishing. You rely on money and serve it as your master when I have called this Mammon and warned you that you cannot serve me and mammon at the same time.
Like the world, you use their marketing strategies, and thus compete with rival pathetic pseudo-religious corporations. You appoint CEOs and call them ‘senior pastors’. Where is this in the teaching of my Son or in the doctrines of the apostles?
Like the world, I see jealousy, ambition, merchandise, control, titles, vainglory.
You try hard to follow me in YOUR way but not in MY way. So you end up doing it YOUR way.
You strive when my yoke is easy, my burden light. You are labouring for wages and not out of love for me.
You ignore Truth and prefer to believe lies like expecting some future rapture experience after my Son actually returned 2000 years as He promised!
And the lie that you believe about this nation you call Israel when you are the chosen race, the holy nation, My own people.
Yet I still love you even as you ignore me, as my love for you is forever and inexhaustible.”
Ian Thomson 