What is wrong with your church or ministry?

The World System has infiltrated the Church! Visualize a typical corporate chart with the chain of command, complete with the CEO at the top, down to various business executives. Now visualize the titles on this chart being replaced by other familiar titles, such as "Pastor" in the CEO position, the "Elders" next, followed by the "Decons", etc.

The Tree of Life is up-side-down
It is not rooted. The tree is not being fed. It has no foundation. It is set up by the world's corporate system.

Churches and ministries are run more like a business. Like a business, they have their positions to fill, qualifications to meet and their staff to pay.

Like a business, they have their "vision" (mission statement) which they consider to be different or unique from other churches or ministries and they expect those who join or attend to agree with that vision, buy their product offers, or leave. They really do not care which. Like a business, they read books and/or attend seminars that propose the best methods available for increasing church attendance and commitment to their cause and ways.

They also learn how to make more money in order to support their success, which is often realized by the need for a bigger, better building, which requires more funds. The next thing you know, they are supporting a "beast". These methods are often the same methods we might see in a business operation with advertising and promotions and even websites to pull in even more funding.

"Absolute authority corrupts absolutely.”

“The high places of wickedness will be destroyed.” “The wrath of God is being revealed from Heaven against all godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth.”

Anyone in ministry who takes on the kind of authority structure that belongs to the arrogant and presumptuous world, will fall, no matter how purely they think they started out. Indeed, no one could belong to or construct that kind of system without being corrupt, or corrupted by it, in some way. That Corporate Hierarchy System is actually diametrically opposed to the Eph. 4:11 building of a spiritual church with “Living Stones”. It may attempt to appear valid. However, it is a worldly system from the top down rather than from the bottom up, with a 'leader' on top. (please remember that a group of leaders can be a false front. There is always someone who holds the purse strings and there is commonly someone who is really at the helm!) Even if it is not spoken; “This is not a church, this is a business”, the people involved seem to think that way.

The Bible reminds us; "Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret."

Nothing is done in secret that will not be exposed. God is not mocked.