If the model of your church works, good for you.  But the model that we have been using in the 20th and 21st centuries is not working.  Our kids are not where we want them, divorce is rampant, sin is blatant, tickling ears rule the preaching and pastors are too busy chasing sufficient funds and new generous members.  Yes, the apostasy has happened which makes it Biblicly possible that the anti Christ begin to show his face to the masses.  But it still doesn’t match what God said we should be doing during this dilemma.  Whatever the passed reason for our current ministry structure, I get it, but it is rapidly becoming the machinery behind insufficient and the eventual collapse to the infrastructure of the Body of Christ. Aren’t we one body.  Therefore if the church falls apart it falls apart for all.

Certainly Christ commends or admonishes four churches of the seven in Revelation.  I believe this is because those are the four original churches that exist in our end times era. This is insanity, no one in his right mind follows a path that he knows leads to destruction, especially if he is from the organization that claims to know the way to the skinny path which leads to eternal life.  Why then are we replicating this ridiculousness pay to play church model that builds expensive buildings, requiring their maintenance and gathered social sessions that have nothing to do with going out and finding the lost, aiding the elderly, fathering the fatherless and just plain spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ?  How do expect to get from here to there when our classic experiment has decidedly demonstrated that the two paths never converge?

Being that neither can I sit in the midst of continued insanity nor simply criticize the existing efforts, I feel I must responsibly ask the Holy Spirit for a new model.  His first response has been something I will refer to as “the Last Century Church”.  This model consists of property, but very humble land, buildings and assets that require little upkeep or the shared access to assets that make them useful twenty four seven, three sixty-five.   The function of the church should be divided in to categories that best support, prepare and edify those groups of believers intended and headed for field duty.  For example the church could concentrate on training, worship, prayer, field support and logistics and general operations.  In stead of having preaching and worship only on Sundays, many differing pastors could every day of the week to accommodate much smaller groups of believer in greater number events.  Additionally, having the church open all week with numerous believers coming in and out for support and replenishment would allow the church to give a broad, simple message of salvation through Christ.

The greatest difference being that the churches objective would be readjusted to an external focus upon going, finding, telling and converting the lost from its current internal focus that is the basis for our untimely demise.  We could be alive with prayer sessions all week.  We could have prayer sessions for worship, prayer sessions for edification of saints and prayer sessions for the baptism of the lost.  This new system would allow us to pool our funds and greater utilize building, personnel and mission expense assets to accommodate the larger outreach while providing a vibrant testing platform to utilize those mission events and campaigns that work.  Right now, there ain’t enough money to do all the work, pay for all the missionaries and programs that we wish to do.  What if that weren’t the case, what if we truly were the abundant Spirit filled Church with more than enough to do what we needed to do?

What if our preachers got to preach our evangelists got to evangelize and our saints got to do the important community work of disciples for Christ?  Isn’t this the structure we were meant to follow.  The work is out there.  The model is broken.  We must change or die with the rest.  God’s face of blessing has fallen from our nation.  His hedge of protection no longer protects our schools from evil doers.  We are being physically overrun by pagans and we seem unwilling to make a change.  I call myself a Christian.  I must pray to God, turn from my wicked ways and pray, humbling myself before our Mighty God who appears intent upon judging our nation.  This is the only time we have for repentance.  The end is near.  Let’s change today, pray in the park and get arrested for it today, stand in the gap for our enemy who neither deserves it nor would understand our doing so, today.  Let us save our children from the fate of never knowing God.  Return our Great Land to the protective Hand of God by setting things right, First, within the Church.  For we are the bride, if we are Holy awaiting our groom, how do you think that would change this world?

New Model Church, commit, pray and do.