THE BLEEDING CHURCH - Part 2

[Dr. Melody Barclay]

THE BLEEDING CHURCH - Part 2

We must get to the root canal of this in the church if we are going to help get rid of some of this aching pain in the church. In the church we find, jealousy, envying. People don’t feel good about themselves. They feel they don’t measure up to other people cause they don’t dress like them, or talk like them. They don’t live or drive a car like them; or carry themselves like them because they don’t know how. They are jealous or envious, all because of their insecurities or frailties. Some church members are mean, nasty, have a sharp tongue. They will give you quick snappy answers if someone asks them something or try to have a conversation with them. Some are hard, not friendly, and don’t like reaching out to others. There seems to be a wall there between them and the people. And ‘aint’ nobody going to get through it.

I would like to this further, to get to the root of these issues in the church. Church people need to be healed and set free. They need to be healed and set free so that they can become all, do all, and get all that God has just for them. Some of people have come from abusive homes, abusive relationships, abusive marriages, even now some are in abusive relationships and marriages. People have talked down to them called them out of their name. They’ve been told “you ain’t nothing and never will be nothing”. And they really believe that. They don’t have low self-esteem, but they have no self-esteem. All because of their past, and what they’ve been through. The negative things that other people have said to them and how they were treated, have lefts it’s marks and scars, and the memories keep them reminded of the hurt or pain. Because people really don’t know who they really are, they don’t know their true identity in Christ. They don’t know what their Heavenly Father says and has said about them. They don’t know how He really feels about them. And even though they have been told by preaching, and God’s word that they are loved and somebody, they still hold to the lies of the enemy and their past. They still believe that they ‘aint’ nothing and that they never will be anything. They still hold to the misconceptions of others that they are incapable or incompetent. And somewhere in the back of their mind, I can hear a tape or video on replay, "Are they stupid, dumb or what that they refuse to believe what God says about them, and choose to believe the lies of the enemy, others and themselves.

While these may not be all the reasons why people are bleeding and hurting, they are some, and there’s a way that we can deal with these and all the rest. Jesus is the prescription, Jesus is our remedy, Jesus is our healing medicine. Some may get instantaneous healing and for some healing may come in stages. Although healing is sometimes progressive, everybody can be healed. Luther Vandros wrote a song: “You Couldn’t Have a Heart to be so Untrue”. The church can’t have a heart to be so unkind. They can’t have a Christ to be so unChrist- like. Like the black community is crying out “Let’s stop the killing.” I say let’s stop the killing in the church. Let’s stop the bleeding, by loving one another as Christ loves us.

Another big issue that exists in the Christian church is racism. Yes you have the different races that are prejudiced against other races. You have some races that feel that they are superior to other races. The same mindset that some Christians had when they were in the world, has not be eradicated since they have become born again believers. The word of God says if any man be in Christ He is a new creature. (2 Corinthians 5:17) God’s word also tells us to be transformed by the renewing of our minds.(Romans 12:2) This means we have to put off the old man with the old works, and the old mentality. After we become Christians, our ways, attitude, conduct and the way we treat one another must become Christ-like. We are not Christians if we are not Christ-like. The church is in need of deep cleansing, deep healing and deep love.

For Him, Dr. Melody Barclay

[debraj basnet]

very thanks

[SANDRA DUKES, am]

I have forwarded this blog to my friend and sister in Christ Jesus ,we have discussed and prayed about this many times.