Why The Pastoral System Must Be Dealt With

 

"And have made us kings and priests to our God; And we shall reign on the earth." (Rev 5:10).

He has made every one of us kings and priests here on earth. But when you take the wonderful gift of kingship that God has given his people, and then you place all that responsibility on one man in a group, then you have subjected the rest of the people to laziness. Most Christians are suffering from severe case of spiritual laziness. 

I want you to understand that I am not bringing all these up just to point to errors or to sound correct. If we want to start pointing errors we would never end. There are a lot of things we see and just ignore because fighting them would be like fighting the symptoms rather than the decease. You will just warry yourself and yet achieve nothing. But we focus on the very pillar of the problem, so that when those pillars are pulled down then the remaining ones will go away. 

The reason the body of Christ is so carnal is because we are not growing, and we are not growing because we are spiritually lazy. And one of the causes of this spiritual laziness is this structure where the believers kingly and priestly responsibilities is placed on a single man in a group. By doing this, you are telling the rest that they are free to go wine and dine with the world because someone else will fulfill all their responsibilities, and that, all they need to do is just make it to church every now and then, and put some money in the basket. 

Your responsibility is to be kings and priests here on earth. You are called to be a government. Not just a government of your ecclesia, but also a spiritual government of your life, your family, and the world around you—a spiritual government of the locality where you live, and a spiritual government of the sphere where you work. Everywhere you are, everywhere you find yourself, you are to exercise God's government. You are the manifestation of God's government. The government of God's kingdom is upon your shoulders because you are a member of Christ 

Nobody has the right to take that government off your shoulders. And you shouldn't be happy that the responsibility has been taken off your shoulders. This responsibility keeps you actively engaging Christ. When you are not occupied with Christ then you are occupied with the flesh. When your responsibilities in Christ is taken off your hands then you are subjected to engage the flesh and grow more carnal. What I am trying to say is that this responsibilities are important for our spiritual growth. Responsibilities makes us grow. 

No matter how much you love a child and wants him to enjoy life, you are damaging his life by taking every responsibility off his hands. You are teaching him how to be irresponsible and immature. But give him some responsibilities and he will grow very fast. The solution to many of the problem we have in the body of Christ is spiritual maturity. We have all these issues because we are still carnal and childish. But the moment we outgrow this childishness then all these things will go away. But how can we outgrow childishness when the very structure we abide in is designed to subject one in childishness?