The Power of Love (Part 1 of 2)

Not too long ago, a friend of mine on Facebook posted a touching status update about a story shared by one of the pastors at his church.  This pastor's son committed suicide because he got tired of wearing masks for church people.  How sad!  The pastor talked about the importance of having courage and having the heart of GOD towards others by building them in love instead of killing them with judgement.

It's so sad that our churches are filled with religious people who have cold hearts towards others.  I heard something not long after reading the aforementioned Facebook post that REALLY impacted me.  Ironically, it was at a forum discussing the topic of "INTIMACY."  There was a woman of GOD in attendance who stated, "It's been said that hurt people hurt people.  And that's true.  But I know I've been healed, and I like to think that I've been healed to heal people."  THAT REALLY BLESSED ME!

Much of this coldheartedness prevalent in today's church is a direct indication of a lack of healing.  And it's not always because there's no ministry of healing taking place within an assembly. Some folks just don't want to be healed!  And some of these people are ministry leaders or just people of influence in the congregation.  They're so caught up in masking their own pain and suffering that they have no discernment regarding the suffering of others, neither do they carry the anointing to bring healing into the lives of those who are sick, hurting and broken.


Pardon my grammar, but ain't no way in the world anyone can make me believe that the truth is being told in love in our churches when preachers openly mock "sissies" in the pulpit, when single women are publicly chastised for getting pregnant while no one says anything to the men in the church who knocked them up, or when the offering bucket silences the preacher from addressing what's REALLY impeding the ministry's growth and the development of spiritual maturity in the people.  Bible says that LOVE covers (i.e. prevents) a multitude of sin.  It also says that GOD has not given us the spirit of fear but of power, LOVE, and a sound mind.  Therefore, LOVE is something that no Christ-centered ministry should be lacking.  It should flow mightily and in great abundance.  But when GOD raises up ministries that WHOLEHEARTEDLY believe in the power of love, embrace the hurting, the confused, the fearful, and the ostracized, and continuously reiterate to these people that GOD loves them, it's irritating--to say the least--when the wannabe super-saved among us have got the nerve to cry, "APOSTASY!," because--in THEIR eyes--these ministries are too lax when it comes to addressing sin.  Last time I checked, Jesus first healed folks AND THEN addressed their sin issue; however, we've really got it backwards.

...Click here to read Part 2 of  "The Power of Love".