Who Would Want to Serve Your God?

Man or woman of God. We are very liberal in placing these labels on folk.  

Their lives may be so raggedy nothing is hardly covered anymore and the true state of their relationship with Christ has been exposed. For whatever reason, they still wear the label and still work in ministry like their sinful state hasn't stepped them out from under the umbrella of Grace and separated them from God. 

Spiritually, I was raised old school. We couldn't wear our sin with pride and continue to serve in the church. We had to repent and get our souls right with God, THEN we could continue in ministry. 

We were pointed to the alter until we had repented and fixed our relationship with the Lord. The "posture" of the alter is lacking today. 

Now, it seems everything goes.  Even when sin is exposed, folk continue in ministry and everything is glossed over without a call for repentance. Yet, pastors stand and wring their hands in helplessness when the congregation struggles with pornography, adultery, cheating, domestic violence, homosexuality, lying, etc. 

They opened the door and welcomed those spirits into their choirs, praise teams, usher boards, music ministries, Deacon boards, pastoral staffs and pulpits! Some have placed the Spirit of Jezebel over the administration of their churches and wonder why the ministries won't grow. 

If you proclaim someone who's vulgar, a liar, a cheat, a thief, inhumane, an adulterer, a debaser...as a man or woman of God, what does that say about God? 

Who would want to serve your God? 

God help us!