REASON WHY WE DO THINGS IN CHURCH.

The reason why we do certain things in the church is because it is scriptural. The church has veered off from the original plan to such an extent, that when a church actually does what the scriptures demand, it seems foreign and strange to our understanding.

Our sensibilities are so shocked by what is scriptural, that we prefer to go back to the unscriptural ways of serving God, because it pleases our natural senses. We have been so brainwashed by false doctrines and incorrect ways to worship God and serve Him, that the truth is foreign to our ears and to our eyes.

We have become prisoners of religious systems, designed by men to suit men. Whether it is scriptural or not does not to matter. We have trained our senses well to have an answer ready for every unscriptural practice in the house of God. We get our defenses up when confronted to change, because we have become defenders of religion, rather than children of the living God. And this goes for all churches, Catholic, Evangelical, Protestant, Pentecostal & Charismatic.

That is the reason why the apostolic ministry has been revived by the Spirit of God, to bring reformation to the church that is out of joint. Reformation brings confrontation and transformation to those who are willing to change.

1. We give people opportunity to accept Christ, because the human will is involved. It is necessary to do this publicly, because Jesus rebuked Nicodemus for secretly coming to Him at night.
2. We lay hands on the sick in public, because this is what Jesus did and commanded His disciples to do. He exposed the woman with an issue of blood who tried to get her healing secretly from Him.
3. We baptize believers and not infants, because Jesus Himself was baptized at the age of thirty by John the Baptist. Jesus said, ‘In this way we fulfill all righteousness.’ He also said, ‘the scribes and Pharisees rejected the counsel of God concerning them, by refusing to be baptized.’
4. We speak in strange tongues, because this is what happened on the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit was poured out. They spoke in tongues and prophesied. Many of the current manifestations that are associated with the Holy Spirit are unscriptural and allow demons to manifest in meetings under the guise of the ‘work of the Holy Spirit’.
5. We sustain our shouts of praise and make a loud noise, because this is scriptural. This is how the walls of Jericho fell down.
6. We clap our hands and dance, because it is scriptural. David danced with all his might. We are commanded to praise the lord in a dance. WE INTERPRET THE PORPHETIC SONGS IN THE DANCE. We are commanded to clap our hands.
7. We lift our holy hands to God in worship, because it is scriptural.
8. We stand in His Holy Presence and sometimes bow before Him, because it is scriptural. Sometimes we lie prostrate before Him, because it is scriptural.
9. We rejoice with exceeding joy, because we are commanded to do so.
10. We exhort, rebuke and instruct people with all boldness, because we have been told through the word of God to do so. The apostolic rebuke speeds up the process of God in a life if it is received. If it is rejected, it slows down the process of God in a life.
11. We wait upon God in our worship services and scan the Spirit to know what He wants to tell us. We sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, we instruct one another through singing. Sometimes we worship God silently and quietly and sometimes with sounds of thunder! Nature expresses itself in the same way towards the Creator.
12. We use musical instruments to praise God, just like David did and commanded us to do.
13. We take notes and write down what is being preached and taught, because we pay attention to what God is saying to us. We go home to meditate over our notes and to pray over them. In this way we build the Word of God into our lives.
14. We use scribes to scribble down prophecies and to make notes on the overhead projector so people can see the word of the lord and participate in the worship. Sometimes scribes are at hand to write down what is prophesied to people to give them the written document to take home with them.
15. We use banners and flags and other colorful ways to express what we are singing about. There is prophetic significance to every color and every action. They are not simply meant to entertain.
16. We use the terminology given in scripture to describe the functions in the body of believers, like apostle, prophet, teacher, evangelist, pastor and teacher, bishop, elder and deacons.
17. We allow women to operate in these functions as we believe in Christ that there is no difference between male and female, except that women are not allowed to govern without being in submission to a man who is her head.
18. We serve God with our tithes and offerings and we sometimes have special offerings for projects.
19. We have communion every time the whole body meets together to remind ourselves of Christs sacrifice and His resurrection.
20. We allow the operation of the gifts of the Spirit in our midst in order to confirm that God is in our midst and that His genius is in the whole body of believers, not in one person.
21. We rejoice with fear because God is great and demands respect.
22. We believe that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.
23. We launch chosen people for chosen tasks, because we are a church that sends people out – like they did in Jerusalem and Antioch. We receive the sent ones back as they return and listen to their reports of what the Lord has accomplished through them.
24. We allow children to worship and dance with us, because praise is perfected in the mouths of babes.
25. We believe in the liberty of the Spirit, yet we do not use this liberty as a license to misbehave. Our liberty is the liberty of Sons of God.
26. We hold long services because we like being together and we want to worship God properly. We also want to give the Spirit enough opportunity to speak to us and to cleanse us through the Word and through divine fellowship.
27. We worship God in Spirit and in truth, because God is a Spirit.
28. We tape the worship service and the teachings as well as the prophetic utterances so that people can purchase the tapes and revise the words of the Lord at home.
29. We pursue holiness without which no man shall see God.
30. We are willing to suffer for Christ and the Gospel’s sake.
31. We believe God is, and He is a Rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.