The Wrong Place

The Kingdom of Heaven is a kingdom in hearts, not in the flesh. It is not rooted in this world and refers to a higher reality with entirely different rules. The whole issue is pulling away from this world in the first place. Meanwhile, the root nature of the Fall is substituting the capabilities of human flesh for divine revelation in deciding how things work in the first place. The flesh cannot possibly see the whole story without help from above.

So the big mistake church folks make is dragging worldly stuff into the business of the Kingdom. God’s Word reveals what it takes, and somehow Christians flatly ignore what it says about what really matters.

In the first place, the Kingdom proceeds with revealing the glory of God without reference to the worldly system. The only time we see God paying attention to the way of the world is to demonstrate it’s failures, and to provide a counter. This is what we manifest, so we need to make a pointed rejection of those same things.

A primary element in that demonstration of Heaven’s way is to reject the need to accomplish things, as if our actions require passing through an evaluation by the world. The only thing we need to accomplish is internal change. We could accomplish nothing at all and still bring the Lord glory. His glory is in the process, not the product.

So church folks keep trying to make church more like the world instead of like Heaven. There is no valid need for the kind of uniformity we see in most organized religion. Uniformity typically seems important in doing all kinds of stuff that isn’t important in itself. There is no need for the scale of most organization, either. Size seems important only when you must get done things the world will notice. But the Kingdom of Heaven proceeds without reference to what the world is likely to notice.

There are no people we need to impress. God alone is the one we need to please, and it doesn’t help that so many church folks define God in terms He would reject. The measure of what makes the most sense on our human level has nothing to do with what pleases God. When someone says with manufactured sagacity that they don’t believe God will be pleased with something He told me I must do, all I can say is, “We aren’t talking about the same God, obviously.”

Without the room to pursue your individual calling from God. you are in the wrong place.