One of the issues that keeps being highlighted to me in situations where I am spiritually hurt by leaders is through their administration systems and rules.

Large churches that are promoted as being spirit led often “miss it” when tested in practicing what they preach, causing disillusionment, disappointment and lost hope for those who are led to them.

This often centres around the topic of money. Some of these churches have large financial resources for their building funds and programs or from their merchandise sales of which they were freely given the content but do not freely give to those in need.

With all the churches closing at the moment due to the government regulations around the virus it is forcing people to think about true community in house churches or meeting online in community. I believe the lord is using this time to humble the larger churches as to where their focus has not been on intimacy with him and care for those that are led to community. The biblical model for community was designed to have believers living together and meeting together and supplying for each others burdens but in todays church systems what I often see is they fundraise continually for their works but does the support ever really get to the right people? The other day I seen a leader of a large well known church in America bragging that he had two fire pits when someone said they wanted one. This to me is a small example of the greed of leaders and church communities that horde resources but do not help those in need, the fire pit now represents the church going into the fire to be refined to have his heart.

When we come through the home lockdown my hope is that churches will realise how wrongly they were playing church and learn what real community is and how to care properly for the vulnerable in society and stop trying to flick them off to secular systems that cannot help them just because it is not convenient for them.