Church Survivors

17/01/2025

By Our Longing

How Can we tell we are His?

The IC (Institutional Church)will tell us if we stay loyal to them and serve the Church and Tithe and live sinless and get baptized and attend every service and go out soul winning and live a life modeled after Jesus and the List goes on and on!

But In reality there is a must simpler measure then the things aforementioned!

Before you can recognize it, we must first step back and look at our lives through a different lens!

Ask yourself, who has our heart? with whom are your thoughts? Of whom do we love to converse? Who has are warmest affections and our best energies?

If we are Christ's, our thoughts are with Him, and our sweetest thoughts are with Him. All we have and are, is consecrated to Him.

Contrary wise, Our love of influence and desire of the esteem of others may produce a well ordered life.

Self-respect may lead us to avoid the appearance of evil.

A selfish heart may perform generous actions.

But that won't manifest Who's we are!

IC attendance will help us appear good, but what flows out of our hearts naturally will tell who's we are!

Jesus in you will show you!

What is your longing?

For IC approval or the approval of Jesus?

That is the unmerited, merciful and unconditional love of Jesus!

Thomas A. Wheeler ( Church Survivors )

Evangelist to the Destroyed and Scattered Sheep of the Institutional Churches Pasture!

17/01/2025

Pastoral Bo***ge!

Enslaved in Churchianity!

The victory we can have in Jesus Christ is a great gift, if we choose to except it. Jesus came to bring freedom as believers. Freedom from denominationalism, traditions of men and perfectionism of Churches is your choice to! They would compel us to live up to their standard of righteousness to gain favor with God, Enslaves us in the bo***ge of their set of beliefs!

Trust in Lord with all your heart, notice doesn't say trust in the Church with all your heart.

I'm not saying not to go, just make sure where your loyalties are at!

Don't be enslaved again to bo***ge's of Churches!

16/01/2025

15/01/2025

It is in your broken places you are most often used by God!

15/01/2025

The Show!

The Widening of Phylacteries or Big Black Bibles is Done for Show!

From "Healing Spiritual Abuse"
by Ken Blue

Phylactery was a little black box containing a portion of scripture. A Pharisee strapped one to his forehead to publicly demonstrate his devotion to the law of God. They not only strapped the box to their foreheads, but enlarged it to demonstrate their superior piety.
Symbols of devotion rather than devotion itself were (and are) important to Pharisees.

The modern equivalent of enlarged phylacteries depends on the fashion of a particular religious group. All such symbols and practices look silly, of course, to anyone outside the group.
For some fundamentalists the widened phylacteries would be the Big Black Bible of the proper version, dog-eared and marked up. For another group it might be an affected manner of speech or lacing one’s conversation with “Praise the Lord” For some it might be the wearing of a suit and tie; for others, jeans and a T-shirt, Examples are legion.

The widening of Phylacteries is done for show, of course. Most such religious fads are merely comical or irritating and should be laughed at or simply ignored. But they are also danger signs. Making so much of external signs of devotion may indicate that authentic spiritual life on the inside has died or is dying.

Widened Phylacteries also demonstrate that the person wearing them is far too concerned with how he or she looks to others. When such people gain power, they become dangerous and are not to be trusted or followed.

15/01/2025

When you Understand This You Are Truly Liberated!

14/01/2025

This is what we are trying to ovecome!

14/01/2025

Christian Colleges! Really?

More Pastoral Sin!

They will never Preach on This That They Commit!

"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves." Mat 23:15