The disciples came to Him and asked,
“Do You realize You offended
the Pharisees by what You just said?”
Jesus replied, “Every plant
not planted by My heavenly Father will
be uprooted.” (Matthew
15:12,13 NLT)/
Organized Christianity as it is today
cannot understand anything that
is not organized, that is not
advertised, that is not run. It must
have names that carry weight, that
mean influence. If you can get
people with some title, you are going
to have the guarantee of success
for your Christian enterprise. And so
the letters and the titles
strung on are a necessary requisite for
the success of the Lord's
work. You must write it up in the
press, you must give a report of it,
you must be able to make some kind
of return that people can read, and
say, "This is a successful thing." If you
cannot do that, the whole
thing is doomed to failure. They say,
"You must advertise, you must
have publicity, you must organize, you
must bring in all these things
to support it, to carry it on." If you did
none of those; if you were
never heard of in the press; if you
never had a report; if you never
had any names; if there was nothing
at all that came out in a public
way for people to take account of,
what is the verdict of organized
Christianity? "Nothing is being done.
You are doing nothing. It is
a-hole-in-a-corner sort of thing." Is
that true? What must we say
about that? There was a striking
absence of all that in the beginning,
and a marvelous manifestation of
power, of progress, of effectiveness,
so that nothing could stand in the way.
We must only conclude, we are
driven to this extremity, that the Lord
can do His own work. Evidently
the risen Lord is able to carry on His
own work; the Holy Ghost knows
how to manage things. What a
surprising discovery! Forgive my irony.
I
say, this is that upon which Hebrews
12:26-28 is fixed. “I will
shake the earth and the heavens”; that
which can be shaken will be
shaken; that which cannot be shaken
will remain; and what is that? It
is what God has done. “Whatsoever
God doeth, it shall be for
ever.” What God does is done in a
spiritual way; it is spiritual, it
is heavenly, it is eternal.
That may leave you perhaps in a
vague, perplexed position, not
knowing
where you are, but I have no doubt
about the truth of the message. If
you do not feel you can accept it; if
you disagree; if you revolt; if
you feel it cuts clean across all your
training, all your acceptance;
if you feel that it runs counter to all
that you know, all I ask of
you is honesty with God. I ask you to
come and ask Him to open to you
the meaning of the letter to the
Hebrews, why it was written, what its
significance is, why God has preserved
it, what its application is
now. Have honest dealings with the
Lord. Please do not go away hot in
spirit, antagonistic; do not lay this at
the door of any man. At least
give God a chance.... May the Lord give
us His own interpretation,
give us honesty of heart, and show us
His meaning in having brought us
to this consideration.

John4:15-...1919The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. 20“Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you people say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.” 21Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22“You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23“But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. 24“God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.
May His Grace compel us to worship in spirit and truth.
That's what He wants from us not so many activities that the result is Nothing/Death.

Amen