The False "Church System" Deception 

How The Megachurch Destroyed Christianity: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5BuiwgGqNx4.html

I realized this back in 1994. I spent four years studying and searching for the right church... the church Jesus started. After I had exhausted myself and all resources, I realized that what we have been doing for hundreds of years is nothing like the Early Church...the Church Jesus started. We spend thousands or even millions to build beautiful buildings, so we can sit in comfortable seats and enjoy the show prepared for us for that day. Then we have to give funds each week to keep this business going. This takes large sums of money to pay for the high salaries and the operating expenses... nothing like what Jesus taught about.

I left the institutionalized church 12 years ago. This video is Exactly what God showed me as well! ❤️

I am tired of churchs that do not help me to grow my spirit man but rather I help them grow the number in their bank account.

I honestly believe this is the best teaching message on RU-vid to date. I really believe this is where the body of Christ is headed. Those that hear His call, will come out.

I stopped going to church a couple of years ago and grew closer to God. To be frank and honest I felt I began giving God the real me and I seen Him in a greater compacity in my life and others. I personally don't tell anyone what they should do, my only advice is to follow the Holy Spirit. I personally love small bible studys with other believers.

I’ve been demonized by many of my fellow believers for decrying the modern “church”. Thank you for this; for iron sharpens iron and the Lord gives me strength.

I don't need a concert. I need God's genuine love.

I went to a new church today and it was the best kind if weird I can describe. No announcements, just straight to the message. He spoke for an hour and a half, the whole message being rooted in the Gospel and what Christ did for us. At the end, well, he was done speaking, and that was that. I've never been to a church so simple, yet I learned more than I ever have, because it's not about the programs or the entertainment, the church is Christians gathering together to hear the Word

I am an athiest. Where I live we have so many little churches where CLEARLY no one is making out big. These little churches and the people who work/volunteer are barley bringing in enough to stay afloat. I respect these churches and the people who are a part of them. They give so much to the community first and to themselves last. Mad respect if you are a member of a small church like this.

I am 79 years old and you have spoken every thought I have had for many years about a gathering together as the Lord would have it be. So few speak out and "see" what you have voiced so well. Thank you so much. Those that are open will hear the truth of which you speak.

I found myself becoming frustrated attending church (Pentecostal Christian church), as more and more money was being asked for, thousands and thousands per month. I never got to speak, I never got to hear anyone's story or revelations or learn from anyone other than the main speaker, just this format you speak of. I think meeting in a park and tithing for the poor, sharing what we learn, having gatherings guided by the Holy Spirit, etc, makes far more sense than meeting in an expensive building and tithing for updated lights, etc. It's what I've been desiring for so long. I am looking for 'my church' :(

. . . I cried, on floor, in the middle of my kitchen . . . These are convictions I’ve had for years. They emerged shortly after I began intensely studying scripture on my own during my second year in law school. I knew these things in my heart after revisiting the plain language of Acts, as well as Jesus’s example in the Gospels. And without too much intention I just stopped going to churches. The deviation was significant and apparent in every service I tried to participate in, that I was convinced I had a different copy of the Bible than everyone else!! I continued personal study and time with Him, though, until the right way to go about it came about. I just wasn’t ambitious about it. I didn’t actively try to find a congregation close to the Church in Acts, and over time I became complacent. I was in the middle of eating waffles while watching this video - standing up at the counter. After seeing the part when the prophet confronted Jon Macarthar so boldly, I was seized with emotion. Just like the converts in Acts are described before crying out to be saved , I, too, felt “cut to the heart!” I paused the video with what strength I had left, slowly stepped back from the counter, and melted to my knees in remorse. I was grieved to my core for my complacency and cowardice in the face of an all-might God! How could I have been so nonchalantly offensive to Father who’s been nothing but gracious, compassionate, and merciful to me! I felt like tearing my shirt. I just lie there on my face - crying and repenting. I asked the Lord to forgive us all, praying further for the boldness like that given Peter after Pentecost. I don’t ever right comments on videos, ever. I had to on this one, however, so please forgive the length. We CANNOT overlook this one fact - a fact my experience with this video has reminded me of: there is REAL power in His plain truth given to us in scripture. A real transformative, authentic, and mighty kind power. “Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” Thank you for freeing me from my complacency and getting me back on track through earnest, heart-wrenching repentance! Praying for us all! #MuchLove

the church is the people, not the building....

Most churches have fallen to vanity. Don't let them make you fall. Christ is the way, not a building.

"For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." Matthew 18v20

This is where I am today also. I grew up the son of a preacher. I started on this journey out of the reilgious system 25 years ago, when I hit rock bottom while "leading" a "church." The "church" had no answers, no one walked with me, and I was on my own. That is when I ran into, what I call, the brick wall of Jesus Christ. I learned then He is the only answer and began the journey of what you laid out in this video. Thank you for laying it out so well. I actually really got a glimpse of my journey when i was 12 years old. I remember going down to my dads study and asking him if I could talk. He said sure. I told him, " Dad you preach REALLY good lessons on what not to do. But how do I NOT do them." He didn't have an answer for me. Looking back, the only thing he knew was how to reinforce his denominational beliefs each Sunday. He had no real answers. I think that is the point with the bigger religious system as a whole and why "Christianity" lost the culture war in this country. The religious system didn't have any real answers. Oh, they would tell you come to church and it will all be better. Oh they might help you suffer through the crisis you were in at the time, but they never answered the core questions or problems.

I've been a Christian most of my 65 years here on earth. Convinced I was called even from my mother's womb... He knew me then, before I took my first breath. Yet, He did not show up in me until my early teen years. Still, I resisted that call, but bowed the knee to fully giving my life back to Him when I was in my twenties. I was a worship leader for much of my early years. Then traveled and taught in the church system for many more years. But little by little and because God gave me a Berean heart to search the scriptures I did so. And it challenged me deeply on so many levels that I finally left the church system years and years ago. With great difficulty, it has been hard to find similar hearts to come together more perfectly as Paul and the early church prescribed. And alas, even with those I have gathered with in the past twenty years, distance has made it difficult to meet with them. I loved everything you said in this video. My heart was beating simultaneos to your in perfect rhythm. I want for this so much. But because of some little fame God has permitted me to have, it is almost impossible for me to experience this grace the way it has been prescribed in your video and the Bible. I am both an Christian and somewhat known as a Christian teacher. I retired from my own company five years ago, and now live all but alone in a valley far from city life. But a few of the saints have found me and want me to come to Africa to share my gifts with them. Oh, how I wish they understood that this wasn't God's way! That is was far simpler, to meet and share our livelihood, our gifts to one another and encourage one another in the Lord. Everything has changed me. The season of seeming fame, turned into a great desert of troubles that left me wounded, but still very much alive in Christ. But I can't do things the way I used to. It isn't about me anymore, it is all about My Savior! I so loved your heart brother! It was great refreshment to me. For now, all I can do is pray! But I do thank God that I am meeting even if it is through email, telephone, or skyping, with saints who are on this page and enjoying Christianity minus all the attractions that man is throwing into the ring. You blessed me thoroughly! May these messages get out to the saints who are longing to be the SPIRITUAL TEMPLE we are called to be. Thanks again for posting this! Stephen.

You don't have to go to the school of theological teachings in order to learn n teach what the Bible says. God will give you all you need to learn n know. Gather together to worship, praise, and fellowship. WE ARE THE CHURCH! BE THE CHURCH!!

I grew up in a Baptist Church, that denied an unsaved neighbor coming in the doors with us because she was wearing jeans!! She was lost and had that impression of the Lord. I got away from the Baptist nightmare, thankfully, and now just have a personal relationship with Jesus and don't attend church anymore. All anyone needs is to open your Bible to find the truth, not sit and listen to someone else's doctrine. I let Jesus teach me, not man!

We are the church. Not a building.

I used to like going to church. You've just describe every reason why I dont go anymore...but I tell you this...i always find an opportunity to tell others of the love of Christ...praise The Lord God in Jesus name Amen!

Thank you brother, I thought I was alone. This was so refreshing. God bless you and the work you are doing.

The Bible says in the last days, that God's spirit will move across the land, I have seen a growing change where many true born again believers, are being called out of church. The church system is corrupt, and has been turned over to the occult.

I’m so glad my church got it right. No pastor is above anyone and we have about 4 that rotate in our congregation of 100. We talk about these “systems” and do away with them. Members come up and share their testimonies regularly and people speak when God puts something on their heart. It’s just easy 💜 and spirit filled with biblical truths. And yes you can interrupt when the Lord gives you a word

This is the Church and its Goal. Many will be deceived in the end times. I am having many struggles standing alone on God's word. It is not a popular stance. Please Pray for me Saints and I will pray for You. Thank you Brothers and Sisters in Christ!!

Each Sunday, the church attempts to put on “The Greatest Show On Earth”

I too left my Church 6 months ago for the very same reasons. I felt as if God lifted the veil from my eye's to see the true things that were taking place there. So I study on my own and read and search for wonderful teaching like yours to keep me inspired in the truth of our Lord and Savior. To much selling and money tranfering going on , and not enough word of Gods Truth.

When I was a young girl we had a wonderful church. Anyone who had a word spoke it, anyone who had a song we sang it, we were a very small group who met in homes and eventually an old, run down building. And we were blessed. Nothing forced or faked. I felt God's presence with that group that I haven't felt since in any congregation I have visited. I graduated high school and left for a couple of years. When I returned it had become programmed and felt wrong. The elders (my grandmother and 2 others) had died or were too sick and younger(my father and the elders' children) more structured types had taken over. I haven't been to church service regularly since but I desire that old, first way. I fear it was so rare that I'll never find it again. Thanks for this video. It helps me feel better about "abandoning" the ritual and being disloyal to the remaining members.

I started preaching on the streets ,.. follow Jesus only ,.Glory to the Lord

God don’t dwell in houses made by man’s hands God dwells in houses made by his hands behold you are that house peace be with you come Lord Jesus🍷🍞

Totally agree ... We who have this longing of a True believers congregation/assembly /fellowship, are scattered across the globe ! The Holy Spirit has brought us together via RU-vid channel like yours, brother in Christ, to encourage us to stand firm in our faith in Christ Jesus Who is our Blessed Hope ! Thank you for collecting articles and valuable information, and compiling them to share on RU-vid ...you are a channel of God's blessings unto His Beloved children 😄

I’m totally with you on that!! I thought I was the only one. I’m trying to find a group of believers who want to congregate in the name of the Lord in my home or someone home. Church is not a business, it’s the body of Christ

Ten years ago God spoke so clear to me " come out from among her" i thought he was meaning the world..then he began to open my eyes in the " church" to the " program" that man conceived for those who want to sleep. I was awake. Now husband and i are part of a home group be it a few people but the line of separation is so clear , those who want to sleep come there and leave , those whose heart is after Christ , the spirit feeds , they grow connected to Him, not to a program

My people perish for lack of knowledge🍷🍞

The "church" has become like a "casino", come in, listen to loud music, COLLECT THE MONEY, and it goes "who knows where", I can't do that ANYMORE!!

This is absolutely profound and I can identify with this video on all points. My eyes have been opened to so many things others are blind to. I thought I was imagining or overthinking. One day in prayer the Lord spoke to my heart on the very things you are speaking about. Our job is to get out into the world, the street corners and reach out to people. The laborers are all indoors in cool air conditioned buildings while the harvest suffers. Thank you for this video.

You nailed it, thank you I thought something was wrong with me. This is a confirmation to my spirit!

I heard in my spirit some years ago My people love entertainment more than they love me, I have become a social club to them.

I wish I could find a house congregation to worship with. Our churches either speak error or are hung up on feeding us milk over and over with no meat.

This wretched me. I’ve been talking to my mother lately about the custom to leave right after the service and the unfamiliarity you can face in your own church. I remember reading the descriptions about the early Christians in acts and thinking “Wow, this is NOT how church is today.” Please pray for me. I’m from Germany and I’d love to be in a spirit filled home congregation.

My husband always calls it a performance and you get.a.program when you enter and then pick your seat and wait for the show to begin

I was wondering why God pulled me out of church and now am getting closer with him thanks for this now I no what's going on amazing how God works thank you .

I quit attending "church" about 12 years ago for this very reason. This video has helped me to start walking in the right direction again.

Yes, the “performance model” with stage and audience has always felt off to me. For introverts like me, home church is comforting because too many people are overwhelming but more importantly home church is biblical. When I visited my brother and his family most mornings we would all pray, read the Bible and share what was laid on our hearts from that passage and worship the Lord in spirit and truth. So much more edifying than feeling anonymous in a sea of people listening to a message and remaining quiet then, leaving with a sense of loneliness. “Church” can be a lonely and that’s wrong. Thank you for this video❤

so I'm not the only one who sees this. SMALLhouse groups, unpaid leaders without a vested interest. REAL bible study open discussion sharing of your Faith in every day life oh how I want this in my life. west midlands U.K. HELP

The church is where there are 2-3 or more people gathered speaking gods word . The church are the people

thank you for making this video! I'm in 9th grade so i go to the youth group and I have seen the youth group go from strong Christians to strong worldly people and it makes me sick to my stomach to watch it so i have been looking for other youth who want to go deeper and I have Found 3 or 4 so we are trying to bring it back because 3 years ago we were a strong youth group and i want to see it become that again to if it's God's will it will be done.

Church is a performance. Home church is the direction we need to go.

This is exactly how I felt. For years I been wanting to start a home church / Bible study the way it was meant ..

You are helping me wake up. I cried a little at this because I am fell for the system even though I felt something off about it. I must be true to God.

The Bottom line: Unless your BORN AGAIN OF SPIRIT, you have NO WAY into the Kingdom of Heaven! In these days, good luck finding a Bible Teaching, Spirit Filled Congregation. As a Patrol man years ago I did the LORD's Work, & paid the price for it. My Church was in the Street, & it still is, that is where ever the Spirit leads me. Allow me to Recite a Poem by Mr. Ray Stevens from the 80's: 'Would Jesus wear a Rolex on his Television Show?' Woke up this morning, turned on my TV set. There in living color was something I can't forget. This man was preaching at me, yeah laying on the charm, Askin' me for 20. with 10,000. on his arm. He wore designer clothing and a big smile on his face, Selling me salvation while they sang 'Amazing Grace' Asking me for money when he had all the signs of wealth. I almost wrote a check out, but then I asked myself. Would he wear a pinkie ring? Would he drive a fancy car? Would his wife wear furs and diamonds? Would his dressing room have a star? If he came back tomorrow, there's something I'd like to know. Can you tell me, would Jesus wear a Rolex on his Television show? Would Jesus be Political if he came back to Earth? Have his home in Palm Springs and try to hide his worth? Take money from those poor folks when he comes back again? And admit He's talked to all those preachers who say they've be talking to him? God Bless Everyone, & walk by Faith not by Sight.

The problem with deception is that people don't know they are being deceived

This is literally one of the best videos i've ever seen. Powerful message brother. Thank God for your faithfulness.

I was talking to lady one day and the topic of mega churches came up. I expressed that I don't like mega churches for many reasons. But, my two main reasons were because I don't feel the pastors have a closeness with their members as they should, and, it seems at that point, it is more of a performance/show instead of actually saving souls. Needless to say, she got upset, pretty much defending them and saying that they show the "number of people being saved." And if I disagreed with her, I was a lost soul...I disagree but I don't consider myself a lost soul. I just don't see the point in a huge church with cameras, and on TV. It feels very rehearsed and misleading. My opinion.

This guy is right on , it is very hard to find a place in any church because of all the formats and politics . I play music once in a while at church,s and I see many people today making a great deal of money doing a music ministry , I will never charge a dime for any music I do in church . I have come to the place where I think the church is being controlled by the devil through the love of money. If you are being payed by a church for doing music or teaching and you feel good about it your are being fooled by the devil, it all should be a donation .

THANK YOU! The church system is not what Yeshua had in mind. That's why I do bible study, where everyone gets to contribute and bring up a topic, instead of one or two people lecturing hundreds on what they believe.

Sadly. The Church seems a need to entertain in order for peoples' return.

This is so true 💔❗️I would love to have a family that studies daily. So lonely by self...

Come out from among them and be ye separate saith theLORD.

It is not church that is changing so much in America it is its commitment and practice to preach a true Biblical gospel !

I've been shown the back door so to speak with two SBC church's. I actually spoke up in my youth during a service, and the pastor quickly made a mockery of me in front of the congregations. This video is a welcome breath of truth. Thank you.

This is something I have often questioned for a long time, and have had a longing for truly living and fellowshipping like the early Church did. Blessed video, and God bless you!💕🕊️

I have fallen away from "Churchianity" for some time now. It has bothered me because church members (people I knew while attending church) tell me "we are not suppose to do it alone" that is why there are church buildings to attend. How does a building to gather in represent fellowship? Just to be greeted upon entering and told to have a good day when leaving is not my understanding of fellowshipping. And yes a message is preached for 45 min. but it is never about sins, hell, or anything that might alienate a member because they may take offense because they are living in sin. No wouldn't want to preach the truth because if someone is offended then they may loose their tithing from them, which tithing that church's do is not scriptural in the KJV. Yes it is lonely going it alone but at least I am not offending God by attending some church that man has set up under deception and finding out too late that the god you are worshipping is actually the adversary himself.

“I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you. Nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.” -Paul the Apostle I don’t think the gifts of the Spirit have ceased, but you shouldn’t worry one bit if you don’t have the gift of tongues or prophecy. Those aren’t the only two.

I saved this video a while back and just finished watching just now and was thrown. We left the formal church a couple years ago and the Lord led us to begin gathering in our home where we fellowship through food and discussion based on the Word Of God. Everyone participates in the discussion. It has been good. We end with prayer for each other. Thank you for making this confirming video. God is calling His people back to him, and prayerfully we all hear the call.

The reason why there is so much confusion is because most professing christians don't understand what 2 Tim 2:15 "KJV "15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.", and so many people put their trust in a pastor then studying the bible for themselves.

Great video. Many Christians are ignorant of scripture. Some because they are just learning, others because they put more priority on a pastor and not the Bible. Wake up brotheren. Wake up.

Thank you for this beautifully done video. This is exactly how I feel. I am searching the scriptures as you speak. God speed and shalom.

Jesus said "Go forth and make disciples and teach them all I have commanded you..." - nowadays people are so happy to fellowship with each other (Christians in church) and forgets about the lost world out there...Jesus did not say stay in the church/synagogue and wait for the unbelievers to come in...NO He said go OUT into the world...!!! Why have Christians become so blind?

In the tiny church that my wife and I attend, we once had rickety metal chairs for people to set in. We now have benches for them. We used to have no platform but then when someone would speak, not all could hear them. We have a platform now and all are encouraged to use it (not just pastors and/or other leaders). When Jesus spoke in a synagogue he went to the front of the room so as to speak to the 'congregation.' When He spoke and thousands were saved, He did so from the sides of mountains and out in a boat where people could see and hear Him. My church has no place to congregate to have snacks before or after--oh, we do make coffee to encourage some to stay after and socialize and talk about their lives and read scripture and pray for one another. I see nothing wrong with this either. We do not take offering at our church and we don't ask for anything although people do bring money to the church to be spent on certain things--we have a food bank, the building and grounds have been paid off and we owe nobody, the electricity and heat stay turned on when we congregate and this gets paid too. We have Sunday School together (not in separate age groups) and in this meeting any and all speak whenever they feel they need to--it is encouraged. I first came to this church because we were invited--they came to me, not I to them. We also came because we had no food in our house--they fed us from their food bank and did not make us feel like lowlife's. When I was in the hospital for almost a month, the Pastor came to see me (many miles away) and asked that my wife call him for ANYTHING at ANY TIME (do you know how it felt to know that someone was willing to see to my wife's welfare when I could not be there for her)? I believe that the Scriptures point out that WE are the church--that the church is IN US. Were their no concern for the structure of the church / it's leadership, I don't believe that Timothy (and others) would have paid attention to one word that the Apostle Paul had to say to him. Peter was also certain to tell the 'congregation' of thousands who were complaining that THEY should choose seven men (of their own) who they would wish to have lead them--that is, he did not choose to take that opportunity to lord over them, rather, they did choose for themselves who they would submit to. I'm just tired of church-bashing and Christianity-bashing; yes, we were told that this day would come, but it doesn't make it easier for me to accept. There is so much squabbling going on between so-called Christians; seems these are not in the least, concerned about the Kingdom and bringing the lost to Jesus Christ. I think they just want to hear themselves and the Scriptures go against their own way of thinking (which we know also was said to come). I'm not happy about some things (including the Mega-Church), but I trust that God will take care of things. All I can do is continue to worship God, to pray, to teach the Gospel to others and love them, and be open to the direction of the Holy Spirit. How I choose to do this (inside a church or in a home or on the grass outside or in a boat or on a mountain side), is of no concern to me. Only that I follow the Will of God. I wish that God sees fit to speak to all of us tonight--wherever we are.

I agree with everything you've presented in this video. I was raised to go to church every Sunday. I was too young then to see the truth. Now that I'm "woke," I wont be fooled. Thank you for this video.

“So when they had appointed elders in every church, and prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.” ‭‭Acts‬ ‭14:23‬ ‭

Thanks! I no longer feel alone in this minority view.

Why do build big temples or churches? We can praise God with small place. Why can't use that money to donate to poor people, victims of such chaos etc.?

Song i wrote(to tune of Little Boxes) Thousand steeples on the hillside, Deceive God's children just to come inside Where they line them up in pews, And have them stare "in Jesus Name" At the preachers, priests, and pastors They've turned Christ's body into a disaster! Cause they've robbed them of their birthright And they've made the lion tame. They've been lied to 'bout His Kingdom Cause Jesus resides right inside of 'em! New creations! Pure and holy No condemnation, guilt or blame. Be ye Baptist or Methodist, Charismatic or Presbyterian You're just slightly reformed Catholics And you sit there just the same! Just be sisters and be brothers, you'll be known for loving others. Not your doctrines or your buildings, worship services, "glad you came!" A thousand steeples all around us do Christ's body a great disservice. They separate us from one another And fill us full of fear and shame. A thousand christians in the neighborhood Freed from stubble, freed from hay and wood Have more impact on the kingdom Than all the steeples ever could. The Christian life is really simple When you realize YOU"RE GOD's TEMPLE!! You're now free to tell the story... "It's Christ in US, the hope of glory" A cup of water to an orphan. Turn widow's frown into a smile. This is religion pure and undefiled THis is life in Christ- out in the wild.

Having a personal and intimate relationship with God thru Christ. Meeting together where and when ever with others is the church. People.

People sat under Paul and a pastor is overseer and that is biblical True the church has become a show, but to throw out the church completely is also not biblically accurate. You still can gather in whatever building fits your gathering. With a pastor and a worship team. We should never idolize, but we can revere and follow christ like men. Paul said imitate as I imitate christ. Find a good small church and serve christ.

There were times when I went to church, I felt it was just a show, and not real. I might say, Pretentious. I am nobody of course, it just didn't seem real.

Thanks for provoking me to think and seek after the Lord for guidance, it is not easy to find a small group of people where you feel you are part of, like a family, I am thankful to the Lord I am part of one, but I do know many christians who long desperatedly for such a place of fellowship and cant find it, because some churches are focused on numbers and finances

Fellow viewers and believers in the Lord Jesus, Joshua has done a great service to the body of Christ in America by making this video. You not can do a great service by sharing it. Simply copy and paste the link to this video on your Instagram, Facebook, etc. Other great places to post a link to this video is on the pages of local churches in your area. These churches almost all have facebook pages, simply post a link to this video in the comment section. You will learn by how quickly some of them will remove it if they are trying to be true to God's Word, or if they are Bereans who will search the scriptures to see if these things are so. There would have never been a reformation if others didn't spread Luthers writings. There will never be another if we don't do the same.

I can identify with all of the comments below... they sing, come just as you are, but they eventually reject you because your not married, your too poor, you don't dress right, or they simply don't want to respect you as a pastor... rejection is not of God! the list goes on and on... I've come to the conclusion that I would rather be alone and be right with God than to be in a fake congregation that that the Holy Spirit has obviously left! thank u for your vid.

God bless that brave man for speaking truth to the congrégation !

I am looking for a church to fellowship with. I have lost all my “church” friends when I quite going to church. I met with a couple of them and explained my concerns about the “church”, and they quit speaking to me. They felt I was drifting away and following a false god. Even when I presented biblically sound scripture confirming my concerns, and how our “church” was not biblically sound. I feel very alone at times, as I cannot find anyone who, not just, reads the Bible, but lives the Bible. Even friends I have had for years are slowly diminishing from my life.

I am getting ready to start my third home church. Pray for me.

Thank you so very very much for this video, I have been saying it to others for years. I am a Christian that doesn't attend church, I worship God in my home and it has been wonderful. I read the Bible and Pray everyday and allow The Holy Spirit to lead me. John 16:13 says that "when the Spirit of Truth is come, he will guide you into all truth, for he shall not speak of himself but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak and he will show you things to come." So people of God read your Bibles and Pray and ask The Holy Spirit to guide you. God does not spend money and he doesn't need your money. If you want to give tithes give it to the poor, the hungry, the sick, the homeless, the blind for in doing so you will be blessed. I Bless you in Jesus Name! Keep up the good work

This was thought provoking. When we attend church and participate in this system we do not think for ourselves. Thank you for making this video.

I have been in ministry for 20 years, and 5 years ago, we had to close our small church due to financial issues, and the fact that a new mega- church has swallowed up just about everything else in my city. I always thought it was my calling to be a "pastor". But in searching scripture and in the years after closing my church, and serious feelings of "failure", I began to realize every issue outlined in this video. 3 years ago, I began using social media and a concept I called the " underground church" to hold "service" in parks, and in my home. It is slow going, and sometimes no one shows up, but this video reinforced that I am not alone in feeling so disaffected by modern day church. Even now, I feel that something is missing when I attend a church, and I feel so much more complete when I am conducting a small group or study in my home or elsewhere. ( I also believe that if the government ever decided to remove tax-exempt status from the church, unless the church followed government guidelines, that a "true church" would rise the same way it began- in our homes) God bless

Sign on the front lawn, "Come as you are... and stay the same when you leave."

Wow! I'm really sorry this has been your experience. I hope that your faith in Christ had not faltered. May you find peace and somewhere to share your faith.

I don't feel the Holy Spirit when I go to church.

The problems you address in this video are some of the main reasons the home-church movement is growing greatly. People want to participate in church meetings, and interact with their fellow believers, not just be spectators watching a show.

Thank you Brother, I praise God for your boldness about TRUTH. May our Lord continue to use you.

God bless you. I felt like I was the only one that thought this way. I started to feel that something was wrong with me. I pray that the Lord will help me to understand more and more as I study scripture. I hunger for this.

Why go to church when you see nothing happening among it's people and no one is seeing healing, deliverance and everyone seems so unhappy? I believe that until you yourself read the scriptures for yourself and allow the Holy Spirit to work in you by sharing the gospel with your neighbour, etc. Going to church once a week does not make you a Christian and if your works are dead then you have nothing in you to even reflect who Christ is? Until you have been born-again and see yourself transformed and doing what the Lord has spoken of then I encourage all to seek the Kingdom of God first and not a church that is dead and void of God's gifts.

I absolutely love this video. So many of my concerns and doubts with the church are articulated here! Thank you Servus Christi, keep it up, and all glory to God.

What I abhor more than anything about many “Christians” is their desire to look for flaws in other Christians rather than do what they were called to do...reach the lost! God didn’t give us a recipe. He didn’t say you couldn’t meet in buildings. He didn’t say there should be certain lighting, etc. He simply said preach the gospel. If your problem is with offerings then don’t give but also don’t go! I’m NOT saying, if you don’t give you can’t go! I’m saying if you can give but don’t because you have a problem with the church, then you shouldn’t go. You shouldn’t receive anything the church has to offer. If you think they are heretics don’t ask them to pray for you, visit you, help with bills, preach your funeral, officiate your weddings. Etc! The church as a whole gives more money than governments! It is the most philanthropic entity in the world. You can’t do that without money. Look at the very first church, they didn’t just receive “some” of the people’s money, the received “all” of their money AND possessions. So... 🤷🏻‍♂️ our church is only about 200 strong and we have given out at least 100k in 8 years! Helping homeless, single moms, kids getting school clothes, we’ve even bought folks cars so they could get a job and provide for their families.

Going to church made me an awful person! I was self righteous, judgemental, and a product if the 'system'. Now I just worship God everynight, just pray on my knees and take communion by myself every Sunday. I feel connected to God and Jesus more than ever, even more than attending church for over 20 years! I hear from Father God and Jesus, they have taught me to love people now, to be gentle and kind towards others, to follow the bible. Plus Im no longer depressed or despaired but filled with hope, power and real 'peace'. I know peace is my barometer as Im in the will of God now. If I went to church, Id lose my peace.

As most have said here, we are the church, it's not a building.. I'm so thankful God showed me the apostasy..He taught me in his word, and put certain individuals in my path.. Jesus is our teacher.

Wow! Just Wow! I am so grateful for you brother! I have been thinking and saying this for years! I have felt this in my spirit and heart for about 7 years now. But my husband and I had deemed, until now, that we were completely alone in this, I know that sounds silly but I’m being completely honest. Every time I went to church, and we have been to several in various states, I felt like I was going to a concert and classroom teaching for 1-2 hours and then going home. And I started to think, what is the point of going at all? To sit and listen to some guy talk week after week about the same scriptures every other Pastor talks about with no new revelations to a “classroom” full of “students” that never graduate? Why is there no progress? Why are we, as the body and church, always broken in spirit and pocketbook and we never reach a place of breakthrough, maturity, and discipleship? And why are pastors rich and well fed while many in the “church” are starving? And even worse, now as a church we are welcoming all sinners and condoning people and brethren to stay sinners, for the sake of “love” and “acceptance”. What kind of “love” is this that encourages a degenerative spiritual state and twists the gospel to keep members happy and paying? This is not the righteousness of Christ! This is sick and disturbing! We became fed up with this BUT in a way, out of guilt of not being a part of a congregation, we still attended “church (the building)” along with all the other anti-social robot Christians (I say this in love). It wasn’t until about a month ago that we finally had enough, and Christ put it on our hearts to stop this nonsense and look for or even start a house church. And although met with much opposition, we will stand firm in this. You gave me confirmation that I wasn’t just losing it, or being too critical, or maybe even judgmental, as many have told us. I have been torn about this for years and I just knew that Jesus was revealing this to us even if NO ONE else agreed! I appreciate you soooooo much! I don’t even know how to express it. Where are these people that think like you and have had this revelation? I felt they were non-existent! Where can we meet more people like this? We are in Texas lol. You have given us new hope. The Holy Sprit is speaking through you my brother! I speak blessings over your life! Thank you for sharing your revelations and wisdom with BOLDNESS! You have our infinite gratitude! We have subscribed to your channel. Peace and Grace to you Brother!